Sunday, May 14, 2006

 

Save The Internet!

Along the left side of this blog you will see some new additions .
The first thing is a box to click on that asks your help to perserve internet neutrality
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It seems that the big service providers have come up with a scheme to make themselves lots of money while ruining one of the basic fundamental principals of the internet.

It works this way. Each big server or search engine will charge for preferential treatment.

Say you were to use a search engine (like Yahoo or Google) for a new audio device. There may be a small startup company which builds a device which is perfect for your needs.

There is also a big corporation who builds a device which, although not really suited for your needs, might be usable. The big corporation pays the search engine. So when you run a search the big corporations device is listed first..The start-ups device, because they cannot afford the preferential treatment, will be on the 8th page of results.

In other words, you will be steered away from what you were looking for towards the one with the money.

That is how you defeat the objectivity of the internet. Please contact your congressman and tell him you want to keep the internet objective. Its a basic principal upon which the entire net is based.

Say you were to search for the latest about the telephone spying scandal.
Instead of the legitimate news stories, AT&T could see to it that you are steered to posts about how wonderful they are and what a great champion of the people George W is.
It goes on and on.. The big problem is that the internet will no longer be a legitimate way to research things.
The results will always be slanted towards the money. Independent sites may take twice as long to load as paid site.
Please click on the box and go to the Move On.org site to read about this threat to the net, and how you can help.

Deacon Harry






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