******Internet under attack in Congress******

[MsConduct]

http://www.freepress.net/action/sessionsbill

There's a petition there to sign, please sign it.

[napi21]

1. I posted the same thing several hours ago. We need to act!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3828849&mesg_id=3828849

This bill has to be smashed before it ever even comes to the floor!

[matthewf]

16. Evil!

Evil! Evil! Evil!!!

[matthewf]

17. The Bil

Not the post

[gumby]

2. Life on this World

is under attack in "Congress."

[Conservativesux]

3. It had to happen sometime and by a Repug from Texas no less!

Well, we can't have people communicating with each other on the cheap, now can we?

[tex-wyo-dem]

4. done n/t

[driver8]

5. If the internets are outlawed, does that mean that only outlaws can

have the internets??

These people are absolutely fucking crazy!

Free Speech? We can't let these people have free speech...they might learn something...and then tell each other!!

Shit, 'Murka can't have people speakin' out about whatever they want, whenever they want. What kind of 'Murka would that be?

[Broken_Hero]

6. Well lets attack the "internets".....

I can't believe this load of garbage, whats next? A ban on people talking to one another? Is that what this country has come too? Sometimes i swear..alot. I hope this bill/legislation gets shot to shit whenever it comes up, i can't believe someone would want this to happen, but hey, its a new age...I can't believe that these politicians would want something like this...

[wli]

7. figuring it out

While they're clueless about using the internet itself for the most part, they've figured out that it's how foreign news is getting in to debunk their propaganda and how evidence against them is disseminated.

[Che_Nuevara]

8. :: blink ... blink ::

I can't even come up with a response to this. My mind is blown.

[demobrit]

9. "We must fight to keep our freedoms"

[salamander8]

10. Blogs are free speech

They obviously don’t want internet sites countering the pure crap they say. I have plenty to say on a blog called: http://ottoswarroom.blogspot.com/
I know they don’t like it.

[snot]

11. Why no recommendation for "Greatest"? (Sorry I didn't see 'til now-nt)

[bionaut111]

12. attack of internet freedom of speech

This is a very disturbing trend. It is not just happening in China. There seems to be a steady erosion of freedom on the internet. Web admins being forced to hand over IP addresses. IP address searching and logging etc. This article sites many of the disturbing trends of erosions of freedom on the internet
Access Denied: The Erosion of Freedom on the Internet http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=2...
It is very disturbing, we may need to band together to somehow stop this assault on internet freedom of speech. What are we goign to do?
If this continues we are in big doggy do do

[bionaut111]

13. Internet under attack in Congress

sorry I posted the incoorect link in the previous post.
correct link is this
Access Denied: The Erosion of Freedom on the Internet.
www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=2716

[ManiacJoe]

14. Is everyone reading the correct links?

H.R. 2726 would prohibit the government from starting new broadband services that compete with already existing commercial providers while allowing the government to start new services where no commercial broadband providers exist.

Why is this a bad thing?

[Thaddeus]

15. This is an awful bill

And it was bought and paid for by the big telephone companies like Verizon and SBC.

The bill is meant to maintain the current duopoloy that cable and telcos enjoy in the broadband market. It essentially gives these corporate behemoths "right of first refusal" for municipalities to offer their communities cheap and ubiquitous broadband, such as they're doing in Philadelphia. For rural areas, this means that they have to wait until big cable and telcos officially say they have no intention to bring broadband services to that area. Given that common carriage laws and universal service provisions are being done away with or at least weakened, this "redlinig" effect will no doubt increase.

In other words, this is just another way for media monopolies to maintain power and prevent competition.

This bill is absurd and unAmerican.

[Tigress DEM]

18. done