Comments on: Net Neutrality http://pd-hawaii.com/blog/2006/09/16/net-neutrality/ This is a place for members of Progressive Democrats of Hawai‘i to express their thoughts and exasperations about political happenings. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:35:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: frosty http://pd-hawaii.com/blog/2006/09/16/net-neutrality/#comment-171 frosty Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:59:09 +0000 http://pd-hawaii.com/blog/2006/09/16/net-neutrality/#comment-171 there is little doubt in my mind of the importance of net neutrality. the basics underlying this issue/principle are pretty simple: net neutrality is what keeps the internet free and fair and open to a seeming infinite range of ideas and opinions. the internet is the last source of free flowing information and bastion of open dialogue in the world. of course, there are those people who clearly think this is a bad thing and want to do away with this concept, namely some members of congress and US telecommunications corporations. this 'anti-neutrality' group like the idea of charging for perferential treatment on the information superhighway. those people/companies that agree to pay this extra fee, get to travel in the express lane, so to speak. those sites, those businesses, new channels, etc. who pay this will will be given peferential treatment out on the internet. theirs will be the site more likely to show up in searches and more likely visted. their names and address will be put on a VIP list, while the rest of us get to stand out in the street, waiting for out turn. if this isn't an example of the government trying to control the free flow of information, then i don't know what is. call your family. tell your friends. contact your representative and tell them to stand firm and support net neutrality.... by they way, senator akaka is a supporter of net neutrality and will work to keep it alive! there is little doubt in my mind of the importance of net neutrality. the basics underlying this issue/principle are pretty simple: net neutrality is what keeps the internet free and fair and open to a seeming infinite range of ideas and opinions. the internet is the last source of free flowing information and bastion of open dialogue in the world. of course, there are those people who clearly think this is a bad thing and want to do away with this concept, namely some members of congress and US telecommunications corporations.

this ‘anti-neutrality’ group like the idea of charging for perferential treatment on the information superhighway. those people/companies that agree to pay this extra fee, get to travel in the express lane, so to speak. those sites, those businesses, new channels, etc. who pay this will will be given peferential treatment out on the internet. theirs will be the site more likely to show up in searches and more likely visted. their names and address will be put on a VIP list, while the rest of us get to stand out in the street, waiting for out turn. if this isn’t an example of the government trying to control the free flow of information, then i don’t know what is.

call your family. tell your friends. contact your representative and tell them to stand firm and support net neutrality….

by they way, senator akaka is a supporter of net neutrality and will work to keep it alive!

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