YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO AND LEARN WHAT NET NEUTRALITY IS. Verizon, AT&T, and your local cable(comcast, timewarner etc) providers are planning on taking control of the very pipes you currently take for granted. Today you have the freedom to belong to any blogger, mogger, myspace community you want to be a part of. Today you can create, share and view any content you to want to partake in. Tomorrow, when fiber optics get placed in the home, this will not be the case. The FCC(GOVERNMENT) is planning on stealing or allowing the above business groups to take this freedom from you by controling the new gateways which operate like the existing internet gateways that were created by the open source community. This is as important an issue as our environment and the current level polital playing field. Everything you enjoy about the internet is at risk. This is freedom is going to be stolen forever just as the radio airwaves were taken away from the people.
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In reality, the issue is one of government regulation vs. free market self-regulation. Proponents of the net neutrality issue support turning control of the web over to the US government, giving them carte blanche to regulate as they see fit. Those who oppose legislation on the matter support the status quo. I'm among those who support the status quo--currently, the internet is regulated by the consumer. When you or I pay our cable bill, we vote with our wallets, and should our providers ever decide to do something we disagree with, we can let them know how we feel by taking our money elsewhere to a competitor. This has worked so far since the beginning of the internet, but now some groups are advocating changing things in the form of government regulation.
I work with the Hands Off The Internet coalition. Check out our webpage for more on our position and the issues surrounding the net neutrality debate. You can find us at http://handsoff.org
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