Save the Internet

[urbandruid]

So, I'm sick for a week, and Congress decides to send the whole Internet to hell in a handbasket.

I had no clue, until I read this LJ post, which all the US people on my flist ought to take a look at. What it boils down to, apparently, is that the big US telecom companies thought it'd be a really keen idea to make it so that they control whose pages load quickly, and whose can take forever. And unless your tiny ISP can pay, or your favorite site can pay, it won't matter if you have DSL or high speed or anything like that.

This pisses me off beyond words. DSL is on my list of things to buy for the house, right after the celing fans (it IS summer in Fresno, after all)- because the internet connection SUCKS out here. I zoom along at 28.8 on a GOOD day, and sometimes it's the low end of 28.8.

eBay thinks this is a bad idea. Google thinks this is a bad idea. Verizon, Comcast, and their friends, of course, think it's swell.

*headdesk*

More info:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/
Washington Post article

Apparently there are TV ads, which make it sound like Net Neutrality- the status quo, what we've got now with pages loading as fast as you're connected- is a Bad Thing. I haven't seen them, but the goal seems to be to confuse people into suppoting this legislation. *repeated headdesking*

I emailed my congresscritters, sent the Post article to my mother, and when I'm a little more with the program, I'm going to spam the relatives. Grandma, bless her, loves a good political cause. (Most of my family does, actually.)

So, ah, in other news, I'm feeling a lot better now. Still have a little bit of a cough, and I'm still pretty tired- though that could be heat, and the fact I haven't been eating really well, as much as it could be anything else.

Off to feed the cat now...

Comments

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

Hope you feel a bit better now.

I had wondered about the whole thing, personally, but considering that Comcast, our local cable provider, was all for it, I figured it must have been bad. Comcast has screwed us since day one and is continuing to do so. They charge outrageous prices. To the point that we're back to paying what we paid originally for having 3 movie networks now with no movie networks. They are attempting to make everyone go digital, to the point, I think, of holding checks so they can show up on our credit rating as late payments.

Personally, I wish they'd all screw themselves. I don't like taking it up the butt from them.

[urbandruid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, much, thanks!

I had no idea till g_shadowslayer posted about it- shows how much attention I've been paying, I guess. Yeah, Comcast is evil. We have them here, too, and what we're paying for basic cable is pretty outrageous.

[leviathanmuse.livejournal.com]

Damned assholes.