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Congress is currently debating the Net Neutrality law which if defeated, would allow internet providers like AT&T to charge websites for faster access. This would completely disrupt the freedom of choice on the internet by giving more bandwidth to corporate owned websites that can pay the internet providers for faster access. Your choice of where you buy your books, music, airfare, movie tickets and other e-commerce items will be limited to those companies that can afford to pay off AT&T and Verizon.

The NY Times explains it perfectly here:

"Net neutrality" is a concept that is still unfamiliar to most Americans, but it keeps the Internet democratic. ... One of the Internet's great strengths is that a single blogger or a small political group can inexpensively create a Web page that is just as accessible to the world as Microsoft's home page. But this democratic Internet would be in danger if the companies that deliver Internet service changed the rules so that Web sites that pay them money would be easily accessible, while little-guy sites would be harder to access and slower to navigate. Providers could also block access to sites they do not like.

Sign the petition at MoveOn.org and tell Congress to keep the internet free and open the way it's always been and is meant to be.

Posted at May 1, 2006 5:55 PM