fight the power on net neutrality

Net neutrality is essential to the operation of the Internet as we know it today. Essentially all data is treated equally whether you are Amarillo.com or panhandletruthsquad.blogspot.com. This allows equal access for smaller sites like this one and should be important to all who blog, comment, lurk, or even troll here.

Telecommunications companies like Verizon and AT&T are lobbying to change this in the new telecommunications bill. If they are successful, the sites you can access and the speed at which they load could be entirely up to your Internet provider. At worst, what used to be the Internet could look much like the old bulletin board sites like CompuServe, Prodigy, and the first iteration of AOL. And those sites went over like a . . . well, like something that didn't go over very well.

This isn't a partisan issue and the threat isn't just from Republicans. Save Daily Kos and Free Republic. Visit Save the Internet.com. Now.

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