Wednesday, August 11, 2010
FW: Stop Google And Verizon From Setting Our Public Internet Policy
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:24:39 -0800
> From:
>
> Something stunningly outrageous happened this week, when Google and
> Verizon announced they had reached a "deal" for the future of the
> internet. Since when is it the place of special interest corporations
> to determine what public policy should be?
>
> Stop Google & Verizon action page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1054.php
>
> Actually it has been going on in back rooms all along, a prime recent
> example being a health care bill written (the one that passed)
> substantially by Liz Fowler, a former Wellpoint executive, who is now
> apparently in line to also administrate the bill she wrote (another
> outrage).
>
> But never before has it been so brazen that two industry giants
> should publicly declare they have reached a private agreement, and to
> expect Congress and the President to just fall in line.
>
> They must not. Congress must reject this public carving up of the
> public interest and instead establish clear principles in law that
> industry giants must not be allowed to use their power to
> discriminate access to the internet of the future.
>
> Stop Google & Verizon action page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1054.php
>
> This is just another example of why corporations must be put back in
> their place. Corporations truly are NOT the people. Let them conduct
> their business, but under regulations that serve primarily the public
> interest. And they cannot be allowed to have inappropriate and
> harmful influence on the election of the very representatives duty
> bound to keep them so regulated.
>
> That is why we have the long term objective of a constitutional
> amendment soundly repudiating the Supreme Court's enshrinement of
> corporate speech rights as superior to all others, by virtue of their
> financial power.
>
> That is why we need your help now to distribute hundreds of thousands
> of "Corporations Are NOT The People" bumper stickers, and to spread
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>
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>
> And here is the Facebook link for the Stop Google and Verizon action
> page further above.
>
> [Facebook] Action Page:
> http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1054
>
> And this is the Twitter reply for this same action
>
> @cxs #p1054
>
> Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
> to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
>
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