06.09.06

Let’s get it together – Net Neutrality

Posted in future paradigms at 11:41 am by sbetts




Just how can we approach this:

Last night’s House vote against an amendment that would make Net Neutrality enforceable is the result of swarming lobbyists and a multi-million-dollar media campaign by telephone companies that want Congress to hand them control of the Internet.

Here is the eSchool News story: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showclips.cfm?clipid=1636

Check out this page: http://www.savetheinternet.com/

How do you feel about this? what are you planning to do?

Save the Net

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3 Comments

  1.    sbetts said,

    June 9, 2006 at 12:37 pm

    Sharon, the ME delegation supports the IID program. At the moment they do not need any extra information of letters. The other states do but Maine people writing to other states does not really help. Senator Snowes office said we would be asked to send stuff if they need it but since Senator Snow and Collinds as well as Allen and Michaud are on board, we can wait. Thank you for the concern.

    Thanks
    Dennis Kunces

  2.    sbetts said,

    June 10, 2006 at 10:11 am

    Because the June 8th panel on “Legislating Network Neutrality – Necessary?” was “sold out” with Congressional staff, the event was closed to Advisory Committee members and the general public. However, as always, we have made the video available to view online. It can be found at HTTP://www.netcaucus.org/events/2006/netneutrality/video.shtml .

    The audio-only MP3 version is also available for download. (If you have podcasting software, please subscribe to our audio podcasts with the following URL: http://www.netcaucus.org/audio.xml

    POSTING FROM: “Intellectual Freedom Action News”

  3.    sbetts said,

    June 11, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    Linda Lord says:

    Here is part of the American Library Association’s position on Network
    Neutrality. Just an FYI and for thought…

    Network neutrality legislation is civil rights for the Internet.
    Telephone, cable and ISPs should not be able to create fast lanes for
    wealthy or preferred content providers while others are put in slower
    lanes. Some content providers could receive preferential access to
    consumers and library users while denying or slowing down access to
    other sources of information, especially for public, school, and
    academic library services or other educational and nonprofit uses. We
    must assure that all providers and users of information on the Internet
    have equal access. This is especially important to library users, since
    our libraries are both collectors, distributors, aggregators and
    creators of information and Internet content of all types.