It will affect everyone. Globally.
Do you support any non-profit charities? How would you like it if their information could no longer be accessed?
Congress will be voting on the issue that has been labeled “Net Neutrality”. The outcome of this vote will have lasting repercussions that affect your access to information on the internet and ultimately how everyone in the world can access information flowing from the US.
Congress may decide to keep things the way they have been for years by passing a new law. Or they may vote to give the giant phone and cable companies complete control of the internet so they can convert it to their own private network.
If Congress gives control to these corporate giants, these companies say they will choose what information their customers can and cannot access.
And it is already happening.
For example Craigslist is being blocked by Cox Interactive.
What can you do?
First – Get Informed.
You can read my previous posts on the issue here and here.
Go to the advocacy sites It’s Our Net and Save The Internet.
Read what Google says about the issue in today’s entry at the Official Google Blog.
Liz over at Successful-Blog has a whole page of links devoted to Net Neutrality. She’s been tracking this issue for a long time.
And you can read what Mark has to say at R-Web Designs. He was targeted with a comment spam attack because of his advocacy.
Then – Contact Congress.
Make your voice heard. Send an email. Make a phone call. If you don’t speak up now then you are allowing Congress to be swayed by the multi-million dollar marketing campaign that the corporate giants are using to tell their side of the story.
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