Broadband Battle: Campaign to keep companies' "hands off our Internet"

[DeepModem Mom]

mediacitizen: The Broadband Battle: Round I


After destroying TV and radio by hording the public's airwaves for profit, mega-media corporations have now turned to the Internet. They're scheming to control what content you view, which services you use online, and whether others can see the content you create.

The only way to stop them is to raise hell right now.

Free Press is organizing its 220,000 activists in a letter writing campaign to pressure the CEOs of the most rapacious telephone and cable companies to keep their hands off our Internet.

Broadband is the battleground over which the future of all media is being fought. As streaming video, Internet phone services, podcasting and online games become more common parts of our daily media experience, the big Internet service providers such as Verizon, AT&T and Comcast want to deliver only their version of these products at super-high speeds ... while sticking the rest of us in the slow lane.

Reversing the Revolution

That's what the telecommunications companies are proposing. And if they get their way, they will soon alter the flow of commerce and information — and your personal experience — on the Internet. As Christopher Stern wrote in yesterday's Washington Post, "the companies that own the equipment that delivers the Internet to your office, cubicle, den and dorm room could, for a price, give one company priority on their networks over another."...


http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2006/01/broadband-battle-round-i.html

[Jim__]

1. The Internet gives the "little guy" a voice.

And, the Internet was developed with our tax dollars. We have to fight to keep it out of hands of corporate thieves.