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Tell Congress: Save the Internet!

Major telephone and cable companies have a plan to control the Internet. They want their content and services – and those of companies that pay steep fees – to travel quickly along a “fast lane.” Everything else, from personal blogs to nonprofit and small business websites – would be stuck in a “slow lane.”

If the Congress doesn’t act now to protect net neutrality, the freedom and innovation of the Internet could be lost forever. Send a message to Congress today! Hearings are underway on a bill to protect net neutrality, and your member of Congress needs to hear from you.

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Dear (recipient name),

I strongly urge you to support H.R. 5353, The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008. This is the bill to preserve “net neutrality” – the longstanding principle that prevents discrimination on the Internet.

The Internet is our most democratic medium.  It has grown exponentially, fueled innovation and altered how we communicate.  But this revolution would not have happened if we hadn’t had net neutrality protections in place.

Internet service providers (i.e., telephone and cable companies) have stated numerous times that they now intend to change the way the Internet operates -- from an open and free-flowing medium into a closed system where only the websites and services that could afford to pay hefty fees would continue to operate as they always had.  Everyone else (nonprofits, small businesses, bloggers, artists, political candidates, etc.) might find their websites more difficult to find or use.  That would be a disaster for our economy, our culture and our democracy.

Congress must act to protect citizens like me from companies that would like to discriminate against certain types of content on the web.

I strongly urge you to support net neutrality principles that prohibit broadband providers from blocking, impeding or interfering with any lawful Internet traffic, or prioritizing any content or services. Please support H.R. 5353, “The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008”.

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing your response.

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