From MoveOn.org: “Just days ago, a Republican-dominated congressional committee struck a blow to Internet freedom by voting to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment.
Net Neutrality has always been the law of the land until recently being threatened. It guarantees that all online speech is treated equally and prevents Internet providers like AT&T from deciding which websites work best on your computer. Without it, these companies can decide what you see and do online.
The full House will vote on whether to preserve Internet freedom next week, and the Senate will begin considering this issue soon after. The time is now to send a message to Congress that they must preserve Internet freedom.
Call your Representative and 2 U.S. Senators today to urge them to preserve Internet freedom by supporting Network Neutrality:
Find Your Congressman and call them.
Tennessee’s Senators:
Senator William Frist
Phone: 202-224-3344
District Offices:
Chattanooga: 423-756-2757
Jackson: 731-424-9655
Kingsport: 423-323-1252
Knoxville: 865-637-4180
Memphis: 901-683-1910
Nashville: 615-352-9411
Senator Lamar Alexander
Phone: 202-224-4944
District Offices:
Blountville: 423-325-6240
Chattanooga: 423-752-5337
Jackson: 731-423-9344
Knoxville: 865-545-4253
Memphis: 901-544-4224
Nashville: 615-736-5129
If asked how you heard about this issue, please be sure to reference the SavetheInternet.com Coalition—with over 400 organizations including MoveOn, Gun Owners of America2, Craig from Craigslist, consumer organizations, and others.
If asked for specific bill information, you can urge your representatives to support “Rep. Ed Markey’s Network Neutrality amendment to the COPE telecom law” when it comes up on the House floor—and to oppose any telecom law that doesn’t include Markey’s Internet freedom amendment.1 In the Senate, the key proposal is the “bipartisan Snowe/Dorgan Internet Freedom Amendment to the COPE telecom law.”
As companies like AT&T spend millions lobbying Congress for more control over what you see and do online, high-tech pioneers like Google, eBay, and Amazon fighting alongside our coalition. And just last week, the New York Times wrote a powerful editorial endorsing Net Neutrality. It said:
‘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.’
This issue has dramatic consequences, the threat is real, and the time to act is now.”
