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Jan. 11th, 2010 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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rabidsamfan:
The FCC is working on rules which would keep the internet working the way it always has. Big communication companies are fighting the rules. They want to be able to pick and choose which parts of the internet to give good, fast service to.
We have until Thursday to say that we want rules that will keep things as they are. Packets on the net should all be treated with equal priority, not inspected, slowed, or blocked by the agencies or companies passing them along. Go here:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list pick docket 09-191 and tell them why you don't want big corporations deciding whether or not your website gets decent service without paying premium prices. Net neutrality has worked for us ever since the inception of the internet. We need it, no matter how many arguments are made about this thing or that thing slowing down the system. Because once the mechanisms are in place to block one thing, I can guarantee you that they'll be used to block other things as well.
Giving priority service to some uses of the 'net while denying it to others amounts to infringement of free speech.
rabidsamfan:The FCC is working on rules which would keep the internet working the way it always has. Big communication companies are fighting the rules. They want to be able to pick and choose which parts of the internet to give good, fast service to.
We have until Thursday to say that we want rules that will keep things as they are. Packets on the net should all be treated with equal priority, not inspected, slowed, or blocked by the agencies or companies passing them along. Go here:
http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list pick docket 09-191 and tell them why you don't want big corporations deciding whether or not your website gets decent service without paying premium prices. Net neutrality has worked for us ever since the inception of the internet. We need it, no matter how many arguments are made about this thing or that thing slowing down the system. Because once the mechanisms are in place to block one thing, I can guarantee you that they'll be used to block other things as well.
Giving priority service to some uses of the 'net while denying it to others amounts to infringement of free speech.