Thread: Net Neutrality - contact your congressman

Keeping the internet free and functional is critical to our mission to close these borders. This email just came in from eBay who is trying to protect the internet as an open free means for shoppers... for our purposes it is communication and research!

Join me by clicking here -- http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/netneutrality -- to send a message to your representatives in Congress.

The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would allow them to divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.

The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.

The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.

Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two-lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.

The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late. You can make the difference.

Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard today.

This is just an internet version of the old "equal time" regulations for broadcast media. The entire concept is as socialistic as the idea of redistribution of wealth. Any freedom-loving American should be repulsed by the notion.

I swear I am getting paranoid that link goes to ebay where you have to put in your id then sign a disclaimer that they can reveal your information to their "government" contact. I am sure its innocent but I don't think I have ever closed off so fast on any site unless it appeared virused

Having said all that and admitted my paranoia I went to Capwiz you can still yell at your congress critter.