Telecom Companies Masquerading as Concerned Citizens
Companies like AT&T and BellSouth are backing an organization claiming to be saving the Internet by keeping it free of "burdensome and unnecessary regulation." But that's nonsense. They're the ones that want to put toll lanes on the Internet. (These are the same companies that reportedly handed over America's phone records to the NSA.) Buzzflash sorts it out.Companies like AT&T and BellSouth are backing an organization claiming to be saving the Internet by keeping it free of “burdensome and unnecessary regulation.” But that’s nonsense. They’re the ones that want to put toll lanes on the Internet. (These are the same companies that reportedly handed over America’s phone records to the NSA.) Buzzflash sorts it out.
Dig, Root, GrowBuzzFlash:
Right now there is a fierce Capitol Hill war being waged over whether the Internet will continue to belong to the citizens of America or will start to move down the path that cable television went: only the big players will survive as fully accessible content providers, as the Telecom broadband providers start to set up toll gates on the Net.
To make this account simple: advocates of democracy on the Internet with virtually no barriers for content entry are known as proponents of “net neutrality.” The Telecom companies who want to start charging tolls for content, among other nefarious plans, are the bad guys.
Right now, many of the leading progressive blogs on the net are running ads by the bad guys. Not only are these ads promoting the corporate takeover of Internet content, they are totally misleading, along the lines of the nuke industry running ads on “How Nuclear Leaks Make Your Community Healthier.”
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