https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=343

Introduced by a MA state rep. Just hit the link and put in your info to contact your rep. Otherwise someday your ISP will block you from downloading metal albums because AT&T will have them by the balls.

done and done

govt goan take my innerwebz away

hmm...no, the corporations will if this bill is not passed.

even better.

oh and btw

US Goverment = Corporation

done

donez

done

done, though i didn't know there would be a math problem. i hope i didn't fail.

more people will buy albums now. OH NO! NOT THAT!

my isp is charter and not at&t.

AT&T is a major backbone provider of major hubs of Internet traffic in North America, along with Covad and others. They probably lease traffic to Charter. ISPs like Charter, Cox, etc. are simply internet service resellers - they sell you plain spring water with a Charter sticker on it.

also, it doesn't matter what your ISP is, that was just an example, i don't care if you steal wireless from your grandma, net neutrality affects everybody.

people should be free to do whatever they want to on the internet. nobody should be able to mandate what you do with your free time. goes for everything.

right, and it goes way beyond free time, it's total freedom of information, and protection of the free flow of information from corporate interest.

the internet: it's fucking great.

Welcome to Internet 2

i must say, I was dealing with AT&T all weekend over some cell phone stuff. AT&T SUCKS. They all suck. Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc. They all act like they don't have enough money, but when you're a LOYAL customer that pays everytime they still give you a hard time. I can't stand Corporate Communications Companies.

Monopoly galore.

i'm all for this bill but i never really thought the ISPs would do this in the first place. I mean we've been hearing about them doing this for 4 years and never saw any sort of blocking of websites or content.

Backed.

I would love to see more smaller independent cell phone providers in competition. But all the big corporations with their huge reserves of money is the reason why I can use my cell phone almost anywhere.

its more likely than you think

well for example, comcast throttles bittorrent traffic, solely because they collect money from the movie industry to do so. this bill would make that illegal.

and that recent issue with AT&T blocking 4chan "for some policy violation" and the shitstorm among people that created - they retracted quick.