[Helpdesk] Congress is selling out the Internet

[S Mishra Suloway]

Hi,
Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These 
activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives 
giant corporations more control over the Internet.
Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard 
to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment. Net 
Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most 
easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn't 
have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on 
your computer.
Politicians don't think we are paying attention to this issue. Many 
of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on 
the verge of selling out to people like AT&T's CEO, who openly says, 
"The internet can't be free."
The free and open Internet is under seige--can you sign this petition 
letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network 
Neutrality? Click here:
http://www.civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet
A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is 
located on the bottom of this link:
http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html
Thanks!