Follow The Net Neutrality Money Trail

Today, the House of Representatives will be debating and voting on proposed Net Neutrality amendments to the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006, a bill that will grant sweeping powers to telecommunications and cable companies to set up a tollbooth Internet.

pushed to pass the bill as-is, without any type of legislative guarantee to bar telco and cable giants from charging fees to the highest bidder for faster delivery of content. Rep. Barton has repeatedly tried to block Net Neutrality legislation and has vowed to continue to do so, arguing from the sunset after 30 months). Verizon, though, isn't the only one that seems to be employing slick (but thin) public rhetoric to gain sympathy for its cause. All of them have similar methods of misinformation: one involves incorporating messages on green federal paper for distribution in Congress; and the other involves finding those who've never heard the phrase "Net Neutrality" to make them aware of the big corporation and government questionable grassroots organization to "inform" the unaware public of Microsoft's and Google's so-called freeloading attempt to use up all of AT&T's customers' bandwidth, Bell South Corp. made its intentions very clear. From the SaveTheInternet.com, a coalition that has garnered support from 700+ organizations across the political spectrum, ItsOurNet.org), Microsoft, the architects of the Internet and the World Wide Web itself, celebrities, and most recently high profile politicians like senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, and 2008 presidential hopeful Virginia Gov. Mark Warner. And that is perhaps the most telling portion of the issue. In favor of Net Neutrality: almost everybody. Opposed: the ones who stand to already paid for through government incentives and tax breaks given to the telecommunications industry ten years ago. Beyond that, the measures to keep Net Neutrality off of lawmakers last mile, competitors providing access through power lines, over copper, via wireless networks, will not be able to compete with the speeds fiber networks provide, already installed and controlled by the companies who, up until recent technological innovations provided by the openness of the Net, have provided only two options for connectivity and have excessive rhetoric for misdirection. | document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") Yahoo My Web