Resounding Support for Net Neutrality as FCC Deadline Nears

I already signed here's what I said

I sent a public comment to the FCC talking about why we not only need Net Neutrality restored and enforced but we need to extend it to wireless phone carriers so everyone can have the same democratic, open access to the Web and wireless carriers cannot discriminate against what Internet enabled apps we use over their network (for example AT&T cannot block Skype or Vonage's VOIP iPhone apps over their EDGE or 3G networks), I talked about how participation on the Web is important and segregating it like AT&T wants would be bad for everyone regardless of age, race, gender, skin color, sexual orientation (gay or straight), political party identification (Democrat, Republican or even third party), bad for online campus journalism efforts at colleges like Arizona Western College in Yuma AZ which established in Fall 2009 www.azwesternvoice.com with multimedia -- online interactive and social networking tools as well as news articles by students in journalism courses could suffer without Net Neutrality. How public libraries and educational institutions with education websites could suffer without an open Internet -- websites like www.yumalibrary,org for the Yuma County Library District, or www.nypl.org for the New York Public Library; how progressive and liberal websites like MoveOn.org, Progressive Future.org, even websites like the DLCC, DSCC, DCCC, and DGA to elect Democrats to state legislatures, the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Reps and governors offices nationwide -- state by state, or even Republican websites to help GOP candidates could suffer without an open Internet.

I mentioned that the Net Neutrality rules should not have loopholes arbitrarily and unfairly benefiting copyright owners over ISPs or users and force ISPs to police their networks for possible infringement of copyright abuse -- the point is to ensure that wrongful and improper termination of Internet service because of the mere allegation of copyright abuse should not happen for any user -- any and all cases should be properly investigated and to that end signed a petition also at www.realnetneutrality.org by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (the EFF) which according to their main website www.eff.org recently sent their own comments to the FCC about protecting Net Neutrality. I wrote the FCC about Comcast's anti consumer, anti competitive proposed merger with NBC Universal, the possible harms from such a deal to consumers, the concerns of their anti competitive TV Everywhere scam to lock out competing online video on demand systems even legal paid for VOD systems like Apple iTunes Store, or VUDU thus forcing Comcast's broadband Internet users wanting to watch TV online to also subscribe to their expensive digital cable TV service in order to watch TV online. I've signed a number of petitions over the last year for Net Neutrality to Congress and the FCC urging the passage even of the Internet Freedom & Preservation Act by Congress and saying to both that unfair broadband caps by ISPs should not be allowed. Instead of allowing broadband Internet providers to restrict bandwidth we should force them to upgrade their networks to accommodate more bandwidth and make universal broadband Internet access a reality -- that the only time bandwidth caps should be allowed is when a user may be sending unsolicited commercial emails -- wrongful, immoral and illegal use of the Internet should be investigated, the user's Internet access terminated or slowed down in those cases.

Otherwise bandwidth caps on legitimate users should not be tolerated.