Save the Internet!

[asterroc]

Here's an email petition you can sign that'll go to your senator and representative. If you're at a loss for what to say, I said:

The internet is based upon the principle of Net Neutrality: the belief that all data should be treated equally and without preference. This is the same principle upon which our own Nation was established: all are created equal. In non-digital law, we have passed acts further bolstering this belief in the realms of race, class, gender, age, and disability status. It is a shame that the United States government is considering such a law that will take us a step backwards in the realm of the Internet and discriminate based upon the paying ability, and therefore class, of the individual.

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[q10.livejournal.com]

as you've probably guessed by now, i'm inclined to think that businesses should be able to use this general price-stratification in these kinds of situations. but there are some respects in which the internet is different (because it's different in a lot of ways, and because in particular of the government's involvement in its establishment and operation), and, although i haven't seen the text, the bill is almost certainly manages to take this not-so-bad-seeming idea and do something obnoxious with it, because congress can never figure out how to deregulate anything without introducing a new regulation intended to give huge, evil, unfair, government-supported advantages to somebody.