From Isen.com/blog
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"Last night the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of an Internet where it would be legal for a monopolistic gatekeeper to stand between us and our medical information, us and our financial transactions, us and our travel plans, us and the information we try to find, us and the news we choose to read and watch, us and our leisure time activities, us and our intimate correspondence with our friends, us and our creativity, us and our political expression.
The vote was 321 to 101. Majorities from both parties voted for a bill that essentially gives the Bells everything they want.
Now eyes turn towards the Senate, where another telecom bill, with even weaker protections against monopolistic behavior, grinds towards a vote, perhaps in July. If that passes, the real telecom law will be shaped by a secret conference committee in lame duck session. (Think things are ugly now?)"
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It seems that the Telecoms and their lobbbyists have been pouring millions into a fake grass-roots groups and are staging a media campaign that paints net-neutrality as some pro-internet-goverment-regulation concept. They keep insisting that the interent could be fixed to make bandwidth more accessible and faster but that evil coporations like Google and Microsoft want YOU to pay for that, instead of paying for it themsleves.
There's a lot of mis-information out there so stay informed and stay active.
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WWW.SAVETHEINTERNET.COM and get involved.