[governance] FW: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] goodbye net neutrality

[Michael Gurstein]

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Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 4:32 PM
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Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] goodbye net neutrality





 
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August 9, 2010
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Google-Verizon Pact Worse than Feared


WASHINGTON - August 9 - In response to Google and Verizon's "policy
framework" unveiled today, MoveOn.Org Civic Action, Credo Action, the
Progressive Change Campaign Committee, ColorofChange.org and Free Press, all
members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, issued the following joint
statement:

"The Google-Verizon pact isn't just as bad as we feared - it's much worse.
They are attacking the Internet while claiming to preserve it. Google users
won't be fooled.

"They are promising Net Neutrality only for a certain part of the Internet,
one that they'll likely stop investing in. But they are also paving the way
for a new 'Internet' via fiber and wireless phones where Net Neutrality will
not apply and corporations can pick and choose which sites people can easily
view on their phones or any other Internet device using these networks. 

"It would open the door to outright blocking of applications, just as
Comcast did with BitTorrent, or the blocking of content, just as Verizon did
with text messages from NARAL Pro-choice America. It would divide the
information superhighway, creating new private fast lanes for the big
players while leaving the little guy stranded on a winding dirt road. 

"Worse still, this pact would turn the Federal Communications Commission
into a toothless watchdog, left fruitlessly chasing complaints and unable to
make rules of its own.

"This is not real Net Neutrality. And this pact would harm the millions of
Americans who have pleaded with our leaders in Washington to defend the free
and open Internet. President Obama, Congress and the FCC should reject this
deal, restore the authority of the agency that's supposed to protect
Internet users, and safeguard Net Neutrality once and for all." 

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