First we want to be transparent. We want you to know that the petition included i this article is courtesy of Firefox \/ Mozilla.<\/p>\n
We strongly support Net Neutrality; we believe that you should have as much right as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo and other billion-dollar companies to access and use the Internet unimpeded. You should have as much right to open an online business, if you want, and not be held ransom by the big Internet Service Providers who, if Net Neutrality is not upheld, will put your site in the slow lane making it very hard for people to access. Sites like ours, who cannot afford to pay the ransom will be placed on the slowest lanes of the Internet while the billion-dollar companies, who can afford to pay, will enjoy the fastest lanes. This will funnel more traffic to sites whose owners can afford to cough up millions of dollars for “Preferred” access. This is not about competition or the survival of the fittest, this is about fairness and equality.<\/p>\n
Yes, we know many of you think that the government sticking their hands in this will be bad news for us all – but think again. Yes our\u00a0government has bungled a lot of things, maybe most things, especially in last couple of decades but it doesn’t bungle everything – think of child labor laws for example. Should we let free enterprise exploit children in the name of profit…didn’t thinks so. Our pharmaceuticals are among the safest in the world. There is no other entity powerful enough to reign in the telecommunication companies who want to divide the Internet up into fast and slow lanes based on the ability to pay. This is not competition or free enterprise, this will end up with the largest telecoms gobbling up the smaller ones until we all have less than a handful of providers to choose from – we’re almost there already.<\/p>\n
What is worse than taking a chance on the government attempting to preserve Net Neutrality is doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n