Professor Geek

Are you aware of the pending legislation that involves net neutrality? In essence, if the large telecoms get their way, they will be able to set up a premium path over the Internet. Any content provider that wants good service will need to pay a special fee. Of course, that fee will be passed on, ultimately, to the consumer. That could be in the form of pay-per-view content, increased ISP fees, or other creative ideas. The bottom line will be more cost for using the Internet or less free content, or both. This will have a negative impact on practically everyone except, of course, for the telcos. The problem is that they heavily fund congressional campaigns, so right now the legislation is going in favor of the telcos.

If you want to make a difference, log onto savetheinternet.com and send a letter to your representatives in Congress. If we can get to a million messages (we’re more than halfway there) we can make a difference.

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