[Web4lib] FW: Thanks for helping to save the Internet

[Arjun Sabharwal]

Hello,

My apologies for cross-posting.

-- Arjun Sabharwal
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Date:    Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:24:10 -0600 
From:    Christopher Schipper <schipperc at SANJUANCOLLEGE.EDU> 
Subject: FW: Thanks for  helping to save the Internet! 

Subject: Congress is selling out the Internet 

Hi, 

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? 
These 
activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law 
that gives 
giant corporations more control over the Internet. 

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying 
Congress hard to 
gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net 
Neutrality 
prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily 
for you 
based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't have 
to outbid 
Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your 
computer. 

Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this 
issue. Many of 
them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are 
on the 
verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly 
says, "The 
internet can't be free." 

The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this 
petition 
letting your member of Congress know you support preserving 
Network 
Neutrality? Click here: 

http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet 

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net 
Neutrality is 
located on the bottom of this link: 
http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html 

Thanks!=20