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Net Neutrality and the Gilded Age

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Time to Shut Up and Pay Up for Access

 

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Skippy Massey
Humboldt Sentinel

 

 

It’s not the government that’s going to trample on your 1st amendment rights. 

It’s the corporations with the government’s permission.

Namely, Comcast and Time Warner.  And your local politicians who are paving the greedy way forward.

A whopping 52 mayors from cities across the country have all recently declared their support for the controversial Comcast-Time Warner merger.

In a signed letter to the Federal Communications Commission, they adopted those companies’ twisted logic that a near-monopoly would actually be a good thing for their citizens.

As it happens, Comcast and Time Warner are regarded by several surveys as the most hated companies in America.  They spend a fortune lobbying Congress to overturn the terribly-termed net neutrality.  If they’re successful, that would allow them to charge customers more to access certain websites at full speed and to censor others.

Unlike the tools available to expose donations to members of Congress– whom Comcast and Time Warner have given millions of dollars to in campaign donations and who then directly tried to kill net neutrality– there isn’t a central database to search mayoral campaign contributions.

The idea of net neutrality could very well become a thing of the past if this merger occurs. 

Easily explained in the videos as to why it’s important, we see it as a 1st amendment issue– and one that is important for the vital free flow of information equally available and accessible for everyone.

 

Net Neutrality from wreckandsalvage on Vimeo.

 

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