Save The Internet

[Alex]

As of wednesday, the internet will be in the hands of AT&T. ( I never thought I'd type that. )

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

Once again, big media screws us, and we become enslaved by their rules and gone will be the internet as we know it. The rich will get richer, and the powerful more powerful.

Hoooray.

http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/307

http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/29086


Sign the Petition to Save The Internet

This is bad, guys.

[Funk]

Re: Save The Internet

Meh, the Internet is full of slackers and needs to be destroyed anyways.

[The Toecutter]

Re: Save The Internet

This has been in progress for years. Once it became mainstream, the internet became a bastion for critical thinking that could rarely be found elsewhere, and the power elite did not like this.

Where else can you find news stories that your media doesn't want to tell? Where else can you freely express your opinion to potentially hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of individual people, with such regularity? Where else can you find such a wide array of information, without having to spend hours digging for it at a library(even if the content may be watered down)?

So of course big business and big government both want to radically alter it. It threatens to displace what power they have and return some of it to ordinary people(or at least the ones with computer access).

[Jamos' Old Account]

Re: Save The Internet

But the internet is the only place that I exist anymore. I don't want to be destroyed. Hmm... It would be kind of ironic; God of Destruction destroyed by AT&T.

[Valkysas]

Re: Save The Internet

Wow. thats really ****ed up.

I feel this is EXTREMELY important, so I actually frontpaged it... making smurtle the first non-staff member to have a news post.

[Riotsword]

Re: Save The Internet

Signed.

Go Packers! Oh, I mean, Network Neutrality.

[Funk]

Re: Save The Internet

I also signed. I really do want the Internet to stay mildly unsucky.

[The Toecutter]

Re: Save The Internet

Even if this gets millions of signatures, the probability is high that our congress will let this bill pass through. After all, those pushing for this bill are funding their campaigns.

[Alex]

Re: Save The Internet

Through savetheinternet.com, you can write to your local Senators and Congressmen easily.

http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet

Please, spread this along.

[Jamos' Old Account]

Re: Save The Internet

Even if this gets millions of signatures, the probability is high that our congress will let this bill pass through. After all, those pushing for this bill are funding their campaigns.

Those bastards!!!

[Kefka Jr.]

Re: Save The Internet

[Maijo]

Re: Save The Internet



Wasn't that from the Mario graphic novel?

[Red Dragon]

Re: Save The Internet

DIE AT&T DIE

YOU WILL NEVER CONTROL MY INTERNET I WILL WITH ALL MY POWER TO DESTROY YOU!!!!!

RAHHH

Ok rant is over, I would try to kill AT&T but I'm to lazy

Smurtle you must feel special for getting front-paged

[Magus]

Re: Save The Internet

Hideo Kojima is remarkably prescient.

http://junkerhq.net/MGS2/

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: Save The Internet

If this goes through...well, I'm gonna miss you guys...and my social life...