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.

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

You're not being argumentative, we're having a rational discussion presenting two differing sides of an issue. I really appreciate such conversations, and do not find them often enough. If you were saying "you're stupid!" that'd be an argument (or perhaps flame war), and one that would be potentially delete-worthy, but this is not that.

However, I do admit to growing slightly tired of this conversation, and it's primarily b/c, as you admit as well, I haven't read the text of the bill! I do not really understand what's at stake here (jethereal said charging for email? ! ), and both of us are betraying this by not having solid reasoning to present to each other. :-P While the discussion is interesting and stimulating, it's too much like work for me to get more info on the subject, so I may just drop it now. *chuckles* If I do go and read more, I will be back!