'True Majority' asks for your help to "Save the Internet, Support Net Neutrality" - H.R. 5353

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Wed Jun-11-08 02:29 PM
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'True Majority' asks for your help to "Save the Internet, Support Net Neutrality" - H.R. 5353

Edited on Wed Jun-11-08 02:50 PM by Breeze54

"Save the Internet, Support Net Neutrality"

http://www.truemajority.org/index.php

From : "Ilya Sheyman, TrueMajority" <alerts@truemajority.org>

Subject : Save the Internet, Support Net Neutrality

Date : Wed, Jun 11, 2008 10:09 AM

Dear Breeze54;

We should all be alarmed by the recent instances of telecom companies attempting to censor content on their networks that they don't agree with. After all, does the postal service have the right to slow down or stop your letters if they don't agree with what you write?

Network neutrality means that users -- not carriers -- should be in control of what content they view and what services they use on the internet. Fortunately, a bipartisan bill has just been introduced into Congress that will codify net neutrality into law and prevent discriminatory favoritism based on content.

Our friends at Credo Action are running a campaign in support of net neutrality and they need our help.

Can you take a minute to help them by sending a message to your Representative?

Click here to support H.R. 5353, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/net_neutrality/?rc=tm20608

Big phone and cable companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner have worked very hard to oppose Net Neutrality and pave the way for "network management" practices that allow blocking of certain content in favor of Web sites and services the companies prefer.

H.R. 5353, from Representatives Markey (D-MA) and Pickering (R-MS), requires the FCC to actively protect the free-flowing internet from gatekeepers, enforcing protections that guard against unreasonable discriminatory favoritism for, or degradation of, content by network operators on the internet. The new bill also calls on the FCC to convene at least eight "broadband summits" across the country; taking the issue outside the Beltway -- and beyond the corrosive influence of telecom lobbyists -- is a very good idea.

PLEASE Tell your representative to co-sponsor and support H.R. 5353 to save net neutrality.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/net_neutrality/?rc=tm20608

The Letter Reads as follows:

Sign the petition

Full Petition Text:

I support the broad concept of net neutrality and specifically the Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 from Representatives Markey and Pickering. Powerful phone and cable companies should NOT be allowed to block, degrade, censor or discriminate against content with which they do not agree.

Millions upon millions of Americans rely upon an open Internet in their daily lives. Our elected leaders must protect our basic right to communicate. After all, what good is free speech if powerful corporations have the ability to shut off or slow down viewpoints they find objectionable?
Sign the petition and sign up to receive periodic updates on activism opportunities and offers.

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Add your voice to Credo Action's campaign to stop powerful corporations
from shutting off or slowing down viewpoints they find objectionable.

Tell Your Representative: Save Net Neutrality!

Thank you for working to build a better world

-Ilya

Ilya Sheyman
Online Organizer

PS. Have some fun after you sign the letter here: http://www.truemajority.org/fun/

Signed... Will you join me, please?