This is no joke. Click on this link http://www.savetheinternet.com/ and do everything you can to get behind this movement.
This is the deal. Right now, the internet is a completely open book - you can go to any site any web page. But the congress is moving to change that. It has already passed the house. They want to give control of the internet, access to the hundreds of billions of pages out there, to companies like verizon, comcast, telephone companies who will grant access based on fees. So, while Joe Blow is sitting at his computer being barred from one site after another, while Nelly Netter is trying to get hits on her site but isn't even being picked up by search engines, while Polly Public sits waiting for her pages to load, the CORPORATIONS will once again be raking in the dough.
Is this getting old to you? We seem to be so docile when it comes to the price of gas, the reduction of quantity with no reduction in price, the mucking up of our water and air and land, the poisoning of our animals and children, and the endless onslaught of graft and corruption. But an escape, or maybe even a feeling of power has always come in the arena of the internet. We have control.
All the store closed but feel like shopping? Tada! Shop away!
Need a specialty item and don't want to waste precious gallons of gas in search of? Woohoo! Let your fingers do the walking!
Want to get information that is not being released by other media outlets? There you go!
The internet is the absolute icon of freedom in this country. Remember all that hulabaloo about China mandating to Google that if they were going to be in their country they would play by their rules, and in turn, allow them to censor information and track activity? This is the exact same thing, except it's the government handing over the power to, gosh and golly - shock and horror, the big corporations.
Why is this happening?
As much as this administration and its counterparts screech about freedom, they only like it if it benefits them. Freedom to screw as many people over as possible. They don't, however, like all these muckrakers, all these goshdarned bloggers having their say with no filter. This adminstration and those that were ushered in with it have tried to clamp down on what comes to light and what does not. Having a network of leakers, an underground of truth seekers, eating away at the intricate cloak of secrecy that has been thrown over DC, is really, really aggravating. Every time something else comes out, you can see cheney's face get that much more pinched. You can literally see blood vessels bursting.
The bloggers have been the underground railroad of this era. I don't speak for myself, I'm talking about the people who have the access - KOS, the Huffington Post, Velvet Revolution, etc. - that have continuously brought up points that the regular media refuses to even deal with. Think about Robert Kennedy Jr.'s piece in Rolling Stone about how the 2004 election was stolen. Was there any followup by the corporate media? None. Is this not news? Isn't it at the very least a story worth investigating in order to disprove?
No. The mentality is, as most people who have had a serious issue know, - like the people who have lost loved ones on cruiseliners or minority kids that have disappeared - the attitude is "ignore it and it will go away." If I don't look at something, it doesn't exist.
My boys did this when they were very little. They would cover their eyes and say "try to find me!". They were gone. They were hidden. I could still see them. But they couldn't see me, so they were gone.
I expect at any moment for this adminstration's key figures to suddenly cover their eyes.
We cannot lose this freedom. It has been a wonderful thing to look for anything, anyone, to wonder about a country and actually go there, virtually, and see what it's like. It has been amazing watching my site counter go up, knowing that there are people who have access, unlimited access, to read and watch and buy what they want. How awesome is that?
Sure we need to do something about the creeps. But we need to do something about the creeps everywhere. Awareness helps that. Information and the sharing of knowledge is our best ally on that front.
But handing over the web to the phone companies?
Sign the petition.
Do everything you can.
This is really important.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

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