How to Save The Internet, from Arin Crumley of Four Eyed Monsters.
This week the House of Reps voted against an amendment that would make “Net Neutrality” law, making it illegal for your internet service provider to block your access to sites they have no stake in in favor of those they do.
If Net Neutrality isn’t made into law, big biz will control the net, and little shows like this one will cease to exist.
Great post Dan!!!!!!
Emotions aside (difficult as that is), if these fears are realised, that’s not a good thing for anyone, period.
If they get their way…I guess I’ll dump the net along with the rest of the media.
They can’t succeed if they have no audience, we all choose whether we want to be part of that audience. It would be a real shame. If it came down to it I’d pull the plug on all of it rather than submit. We still have that freedom.
I sincerely hope that it does not come to pass.
I am really enjoying this podcasting phenomenon for one thing.
Thanks for posting the link, Dan.
Peace.
Hey Dan:
I’ve heard you mention Norm Augustinis a few times so I thought I’d write and tell you about a five minute bit done by Norm I just listened to regarding interNet Neutrality, it’s over at Madge Weinstein’s site.
It’s funny but real too. Thought you might be interested. It’s in Madge’s June 12 entry, here’s the address:
http://www.yeastradio.com
A longtime listener,
Gerri C.
Miami, Florida
I sent an email to Senator Jim Jeffords. (Patrick Leahy, our other senator, is already in favor of ‘Net Neutrality). Thanks for the pointer.
B.
Sunday, June 11, 2006 – BNN
U S House of Representatives passes HR 5252 COPE Act
June 10, 2006
The United States House of Representatives with a vote of 321 yeas to 101 nays passed the COPE Act, HR 5252, at 10:05 pm, June 8, 2006. Eleven members did not vote. The bill passed without the “Markey of Massachusetts” amendment which would have enforced Internet neutrality. Aggressive lobbying by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth apparently influenced the Representatives.
Allegedly, AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth began turning over records of tens of millions of their customers’ phone calls to the United States National Security Agency shortly after Sept. 11, 2001 and are being financially compensated.
From Blogger News Network.
The Cranky Geeks podcast #12 on June 1st broached the subject.
One speaker said the FCC are the ones people need to be focusing on, as they set the rules. The Telcos are simply doing what their shareholders want them to, protect their own interests.
Posted FreePress.net link on our site as it seems to have a lot of useful links on it.
Why don’t they first of all pass a law that prohibits politicians interfering with mediums/forms of communication, basically *things*, they don’t use/have no clue about?
That way they can only meddle in illicit drug use, prostitution, insider trading and perk-laden junkets, therefore leaving the Internet, gaming, mobile communication, wi-fi etc alone.
Good stuff, Dan! Keep updating!