Saving The INTERNET, Net Neutrality

Net neutrality. The basic fundamental principle that we, the consumer, the average citizen, have the right to “our” internet our ability to access any “web site we want, whenever we want, at the fastest speed, whether it’s a corporate or mom-and-pop site”. Use “any service we like — watching online video, listening to podcasts, sending instant messages — anytime we choose.”

Could this be taken away, because of greedy corporate suits, who need more money?

Who wants to get rid of Net Neutrality?

The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking their competitors.

These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services — or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls — and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.

The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk.

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