Save the internet
A recent FCC decision has removed longstanding protections under which the Internet has flourished. As a result, telco/cable network operators--who control 94% of broadband Internet access and face no meaningful competition--have announced plans to use their control over the consumer Internet access market to control the Internet content and services market.
In English, websites may have to pay internet providers to ensure there is a quick pathway to their websites. This will mean that new and innovative websites will be slower unless they come up with money to pay off all the telcons. This will ruin the internet. Imagine if Google never got popular because there two server Stanford based project only offered slow access! A really good explanation of this can be found in this short video.
What can you do about it? Spend one quick minute and go to http://www.itsournet.org/. And just enter in your contact information and emails automatically get sent to your congressmen. It took me less then a minute.
