Net Neutrality!

[earth mom]

Just a heads up because we need to keep our eagle eyes on Net Neutrality. Can you imagine the direction the election would have gone without the internet? :scared:

http://savetheinternet.com/blog/

http://savetheinternet.com/=faq

[TayTay]

1. These folks now chair sub-committees in the Congress

dealing with Net Neutrality:

http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=531&Itemid=138

House sub-committee on Telecommunications.
You can see how Rep Markey feels about this issue on this website.


And in the Senate:

John Kerry on the Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness sub-committee of Commerce

http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Subcommittees.Subcommittee&Subcommittee_ID=87
This is how Sen. Kerry feels about net neutrality: http://www.media-alliance.org/medianews/archives/002736.php



And this is another powerful wing of the Democratic Party that opposes Net Neutrality.

McCurry Warns Dems About Net Neutrality

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By Ted Hearn 10/31/2006 5:34:00 PMDigg This | add to Del.icio.us |

McLean, Va. -- Former Clinton White House press secretary Mike McCurry said Tuesday that Democrats should think twice before using possible control of Congress next year to impose network-neutrality requirements on cable and phone broadband-access providers.

“I worry that not enough Democrats really have thought hard about what it would mean to be the party that introduced the first complex regulatory scheme to the Internet,” McCurry said at an Internet-policy debate here hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council that included a Google executive.

McCurry -- arguing that the Clinton administration took a deregulatory approach to the Internet -- is co-chairman of the Hands Off the Internet coalition, funded by AT&T. AT&T is trying to gain Federal Communications Commission approval Friday of its $81 billion merger with BellSouth without conditions on the management of its broadband network.

The imposition of net-neutrality requirements -- which would likely stop cable and phone companies from demanding cash from Web-based companies for priority delivery of their content -- would result in a victory by the “Lamont-Feingold wing of the party, which is in some ways deeply hostile to business” over moderate Democrats who have reached out to business interests for support, McCurry said.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6387052.html?display=Breaking+News

[earth mom]

3. Thanks for the info!

:hi:

[earth mom]

2. PBS Moyers on America: The Net @ Risk

This was an interesting program that was broadcast recently. Click link for video.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/neutrality.html