Your Internet Business Could Be At A Risk!

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1. Smartzville on May 26th, 2006 11:46 am

   If you signed that petition and subscribed to future notices you would have received the email below (which is very good news).

   If you didn’t sign the petition there is still time to make your voice heard! Please read and visit savetheinternet.com it only takes a moment.

   Thank you, our futures as online entrepreneurs could very well rest on the work being done now.

   Laura Childs

   ———–

   Dear Laura,

   Thanks to your thousands of calls and letters, we took a major step forward this week in the fight for Internet freedom.

   A bipartisan majority on the House Judiciary Committee yesterday passed the “Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act” — a good bill that would use antitrust law to protect Network Neutrality. Special thanks to those of you who called the key members who cast the deciding votes.

   The question before us is simple: Will the Internet remain in the hands of users and innovators? Or will a handful of telephone and cable companies determine which Web sites you see and which you don’t? Yesterday’s vote — a milestone for our movement — would have been unthinkable just three weeks ago. But we’ve shown once again that organized people can defeat powerful corporations.

   Our opponents spent untold millions on high-priced lobbyists, slick ad campaigns and fake grassroots groups. But the voices of hundreds of thousands of citizens — your voices — made the difference.

   The SavetheInternet.com Coalition led by Free Press now boasts nearly 700 groups that span the political spectrum, including MoveOn.org, the Christian Coalition, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Gun Owners of America, Consumers Union, and the American Library Association. Thousands of blogs have taken up our cause. Yesterday, the coalition’s petition drive surpassed 750,000 signatures.

   Our top priority is increasing the number of people who know about this threat to Internet freedom.

   The struggle in Congress isn’t over. The full House will take up the bipartisan Judiciary bill (H.R. 5417) — as well as the massive rewrite of the Telecom Act — after they return in June. The Senate is also considering major legislation that currently fails to protect Net Neutrality, though a bipartisan group of Senators are lining up behind the excellent Snowe-Dorgan bill (S. 2917).

   Our work is not done. But momentum is on our side.

   We couldn’t have done it without you.

   Onward,

   Josh Silver
   Executive Director
   Free Press

2. Bill Swan on May 29th, 2006 2:24 pm

   This may sound callis, but this story doesn’t surprise me. I read about it online (CNN) this morning. Actually I am surprised that they didn’t try this sooner. AOL used to do something similar back in the early days when they placed “paid news content” ahead of free content. I’m guessing that next would come a bill to the website owner not only for hosting, but a monthly fee that would allow them access to the internet at all via phone or cable connections. Why not, we already have Pay Per Click Search Engines. And everyone knows you pay Google just to get into the top 50 or so search results. It makes me yearn for the late 80’s and early 90’s when everything in cyberspace was new, without being “improved” or “protected for your safety”.

3. Smartzville on May 29th, 2006 6:13 pm

   Hi Bill!

   Frustrating hunh?

   Just to be clear (for your sake as well as everyone else reading here), you don’t “pay google just to get in the top 50 or so results”.

   I have many number 1-50 placements for chosen search terms and I’ve never paid google a cent. Google lines up and clearly marks pay per click links and listings in the right column of it’s search results, and, at times, some sponsored listing in blue at the top of the results page.

   Getting your site listed in google is neither hard nor something you need to pay for.

   Laura Childs
   http://www.smartzville.com

4. Bob on June 3rd, 2006 11:10 am

   Laura,

   I looked at the list of people that are working on defeating this bill quickly. The largest lobbying organization in Washington DC is AARP (American Association of Retired People. I do not remember seeing their name on the list of supporters for defeating this bill.

   If they are not on there, they should certainly be. I would imagine there are thousands of retirees like myself (…edited…) who need a source for extra income.

   Also everyone in the know, knows that our Medicare and Social Security will not be able to provide for all retirees in the near future. And they just announced about a week ago that this time period has been shortened by two years.

   There are over One trillion dollars in corporate retirement funds that will be needed shortly in the US and they are not there. GM is 8 Billion dollars short in their retirement needs. And this goes on and on.

   This is simply big business trying to bury the little guy without any regard for them.

   Bob

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