We the People are hanging by a thread! Public taxpayers have paid for our Internet for 30 years, its birth and evolution, upfront investment, maintenance and advancement. Now that it's a vital platform for free speech and communication, giants want to lock it up. Don't let the would-be censors, corporate monopolists, political propagandists and ideology dominunists lock up the people's Internet.
Last night PBS ran The Net at Risk, a documentary produced by award-winning journalist Bill Moyers, with the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, who followed with an online discussion. It's an excellent look at the issue. The show is online at http://www.pbs.org/moyers. Find out why the U.S. ranks 26th in Internet connection speed.
Democrat Oregon Ron Wyden is the only man holding back this oppression law. He's put a block on it for the moment. But self-interest drivers are working to set wheels in place through Nov. elections, so they are ready to turn. Against us all.
ABOUT THE ATTEMPTED TAKE-OVER OF THE NET
From PBS.org
Some activists describe the ongoing debate this way: A small number of mega-media giants owns much of the content and controls the delivery of content on radio and television and in the press; if we let them take control of the Internet as well, immune from government regulation, who will pay the price? Their opponents say that the best way to encourage Internet innovation and technological advances is to let the market-not the federal government-determine the shape of the system.
"The genius of the Internet was that it made the First Amendment a living document again for millions of Americans," says Robert McChesney, a media scholar and activist and co-author of OUR MEDIA, NOT THEIRS. "The decisions that we're going be making ... are probably going to set our entire communication system, and, really, our entire society, on a course that it won't be able to change for generations."
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