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Are Big Communication Companies Privatizing the Internet?

In case you haven't heard, companies like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress for the right to control where you go on the Internet, how fast you get there, and how much you pay for the service.


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Visit commoncause.org/HandsOffMyInternet to see what some brazen telecom execs had to say, and to send them a message about how you feel about the Internet. If we generate heat at this stage in the debate and really shame them for the arrogance and selfishness it takes to utter such audacious statements, it could really pay off.  Congress is rewriting the 1996 Telecommunications Act, this rewrite will have huge implications for how we communicate and receive information for decades to come.

Common Cause is ready - with your help - to fight the telecom giants in the halls of Congress. A major rewrite of telecommunications law is on the agenda this spring. We need to push back hard at the telecom lobbyists who want to write Internet freedom out of the law.


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Tollgates everywhere

This is just one part of a conservative corporatist initiative to install tollgates on everything everywhere.

Here in Texas, Bush's handpicked successor is championing a plan to make practically every road in the state a toll road, no longer public but owned and operated for profit by private companies.

by greygeek on Thu Jan 26, 2006 at 04:28:03 PM EST


Analogy I used in letter to friends and family.

I used this analogy when writing to friends and family.  I think it makes sense and keeps it simple for "non technical" folks.

"The analogy is the electric grid.  Would you think it fair if General Electric had to pay our local electric company because their light bulbs were being used in the homes of the electric company's customers?  Wouldn't that make light bulbs very expensive?  Aren't the electric company's customers already paying for the electricity?  Shouldn't the PUD care less about what we use our electricity for?  Wouldn't that limit development of the light bulb market by making it hard for a new company to get started?"

I hope someone finds this useful.

"He who trades freedom for security will soon lose both."

by briansc on Fri Jan 27, 2006 at 01:57:50 PM EST


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