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Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1322808" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><strong><a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/7/fcc-occupy-neutrality.html" target="_blank">Internet libertarians calling for the equal treatment of all Internet data have camped out in front of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C., saying they won’t quit their Occupy-style protest until the regulator stands up for Net neutrality.</a></strong></p><p></p><p>“It’s one thing not to have rules to protect the Internet. It’s another thing to say it’s permissible to discriminate between traffic sources, between certain websites,” said April Glaser, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. People will surf away from slow-loading sites, effectively censoring them, Glaser added.</p><p></p><p>And while telecommunications companies have deep pockets and political clout, so do technology companies in Silicon Valley, which rely on Net neutrality. </p><p></p><p>A coalition of dozens of tech companies including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google and Microsoft <a href="http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/4422119/letter_to_FCC.pdf" target="_blank">wrote a letter</a> to the FCC on Wednesday in support of a free and open Internet. "The Commission’s long-standing commitment and actions undertaken to protect the open Internet are a central reason why the Internet remains an engine of entrepreneurship and economic growth," the letter read.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1322808, member: 1"] [B][URL='http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/7/fcc-occupy-neutrality.html']Internet libertarians calling for the equal treatment of all Internet data have camped out in front of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, D.C., saying they won’t quit their Occupy-style protest until the regulator stands up for Net neutrality.[/URL][/B] “It’s one thing not to have rules to protect the Internet. It’s another thing to say it’s permissible to discriminate between traffic sources, between certain websites,” said April Glaser, an activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. People will surf away from slow-loading sites, effectively censoring them, Glaser added. And while telecommunications companies have deep pockets and political clout, so do technology companies in Silicon Valley, which rely on Net neutrality. A coalition of dozens of tech companies including Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google and Microsoft [URL='http://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/assets/4422119/letter_to_FCC.pdf']wrote a letter[/URL] to the FCC on Wednesday in support of a free and open Internet. "The Commission’s long-standing commitment and actions undertaken to protect the open Internet are a central reason why the Internet remains an engine of entrepreneurship and economic growth," the letter read. [/QUOTE]
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