This is real and it is a major concern. I wrote it so the very least you could do is read it the whole way through and watch the video at the bottom. I'm just asking for about twenty minutes of your oh so busy schedule.
Save the Internet, become an online warrior and partake in an actual revolution.
By Kyle Kellogg.
As I write this lobbyists from major telecommunications and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, are currently trying to get the Senate to pass a bill that will allow them unprecedented control over the flow of information on the Internet. For those of you who know how the Congress works, this means that the bill has passed through the House already, gaining enough support to be considered to become an actual law. What's this mean though?
This would mean that, if successfully passed, the aforementioned companies, already ISPs, could slow the bandwidth of sites that don't pay them to a meager crawl or even stop. Think your Internet connection is slow already? What if you got online and tried to access Google, but Google hadn't made a deal with your ISP? The result would be that Google would load so slowly that you wouldn't be able to use it or that you would receive an error message stating that Google couldn't be found. While Google tried to load you would receive an ad for some other search engine that had already signed a deal with your ISP. It's not that big of a deal though, right?
Wrong. For all of us who use MySpace: What if MySpace didn't sign a deal for a ridiculously large amount of cash with one of these telecommunications giants? Livejournal? Newgrounds? What if most of the pages on the web didn't sign a deal? What will happen to pages of individuals? What about games that you play online, like WoW?
All you have to do is visit savetheinternet.com and sign the petition to prevent this from happening. Pass the message on to a friend. God forbid, call your Congressmen and tell them what you think. Let's use the Internet to fight for its freedom. This is your chance to see your vote count, to hear your own voice of democracy above the clutter, to take part in a revolution of an unimaginable magnitude.
The Internet is founded upon open source software. The Internet itself is open source, email is open source, the first browser was open source, and I want to keep it that way and I hope you do too. Let's all take part and tell the telecommunication and cable giants to f*ck their money, we want something better. The Internet is really the last somewhat free form of creative expression, where what matters are the points you make and the validity of your opinions. Don't let them ruin it for the world. Remember, the world uses the Internet. By using the Internet you connect to the world. By making a statement online, like this one, you're allowing the world to read what you've written and think. Let's do this for the billions that use the Internet.
Please, I beg you to research both sides of the topic "Net Neutrality" before acting. When you're done I know you'll make the right choice. I know you'll sign the petition, tell a friend, and maybe even call or write to a congressman. Stand up and act, it's our time to do something that matters.
Don't pass this off as something that will fix itself. This could be the end of the Internet, the end of possibilities, the end of information, the end of entertainment, and the end of usefulness as we know it. Think about it: What's the point of a computer without the Internet these days? A calculator? A word processor? Some feeble games that don't allow you to interact with other individuals?
Don't let it die.
Watch the movie.
Save the Internet, become an online warrior and partake in an actual revolution.
By Kyle Kellogg.
As I write this lobbyists from major telecommunications and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, are currently trying to get the Senate to pass a bill that will allow them unprecedented control over the flow of information on the Internet. For those of you who know how the Congress works, this means that the bill has passed through the House already, gaining enough support to be considered to become an actual law. What's this mean though?
This would mean that, if successfully passed, the aforementioned companies, already ISPs, could slow the bandwidth of sites that don't pay them to a meager crawl or even stop. Think your Internet connection is slow already? What if you got online and tried to access Google, but Google hadn't made a deal with your ISP? The result would be that Google would load so slowly that you wouldn't be able to use it or that you would receive an error message stating that Google couldn't be found. While Google tried to load you would receive an ad for some other search engine that had already signed a deal with your ISP. It's not that big of a deal though, right?
Wrong. For all of us who use MySpace: What if MySpace didn't sign a deal for a ridiculously large amount of cash with one of these telecommunications giants? Livejournal? Newgrounds? What if most of the pages on the web didn't sign a deal? What will happen to pages of individuals? What about games that you play online, like WoW?
All you have to do is visit savetheinternet.com and sign the petition to prevent this from happening. Pass the message on to a friend. God forbid, call your Congressmen and tell them what you think. Let's use the Internet to fight for its freedom. This is your chance to see your vote count, to hear your own voice of democracy above the clutter, to take part in a revolution of an unimaginable magnitude.
The Internet is founded upon open source software. The Internet itself is open source, email is open source, the first browser was open source, and I want to keep it that way and I hope you do too. Let's all take part and tell the telecommunication and cable giants to f*ck their money, we want something better. The Internet is really the last somewhat free form of creative expression, where what matters are the points you make and the validity of your opinions. Don't let them ruin it for the world. Remember, the world uses the Internet. By using the Internet you connect to the world. By making a statement online, like this one, you're allowing the world to read what you've written and think. Let's do this for the billions that use the Internet.
Please, I beg you to research both sides of the topic "Net Neutrality" before acting. When you're done I know you'll make the right choice. I know you'll sign the petition, tell a friend, and maybe even call or write to a congressman. Stand up and act, it's our time to do something that matters.
Don't pass this off as something that will fix itself. This could be the end of the Internet, the end of possibilities, the end of information, the end of entertainment, and the end of usefulness as we know it. Think about it: What's the point of a computer without the Internet these days? A calculator? A word processor? Some feeble games that don't allow you to interact with other individuals?
Don't let it die.
Watch the movie.