The world's most oppressive regimes are
moving forcefully to censor the internet. In communist China today they are actually
policing political thought online right now. And even in our own country,
telecom giants are pushing for legislation to force democracy into the slow lane or worse. They are spending
millions of dollars to try to get Congress to enable corruption of the internet. Already AOL has started
trashing emails containing a reference to a web site they did not like.
But some heroic members of Congress like Ed Markey (D-MA), have been fighting for amendments to the deceptively named "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006"
(COPE) to guarantee net neutrality. And just this last week he sponsored a freestanding "
Network Neutrality Act of 2006" [H.R. 5273] to address this issue headon. Please tell your members of Congress to support the Markey amendments and to co-sponsor H.R. 5273.
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