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

[Leo Robert Klein]

Basically this is about all content being treated equally and no 
preference given to one source over the other.  If they want to speed up 
video, fine.  If they just want to speed up video from Disney or the 
Home Shopping Network, then they've got another thing coming.  In such a 
Brave New World of content discrimination, you can just imagine how 
Libraries would fare.

On the House side the bill just got voted out of Committee with the "Net 
Neutrality" Amendment being voted down unfortunately.  The focus now is 
shifting to the floor of the House and the equivalent Bill making its 
way through the Senate.

Some good sites on this are:

http://www.savetheinternet.com/
http://freepress.net/
http://www.publicknowledge.org/

LEO

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Leo Robert Klein
www.leoklein.com


Arjun Sabharwal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My apologies for cross-posting.
> 
> -- Arjun Sabharwal
> ********************************************************
> 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. 
>