Thanks!

Earlier today I set up a page on MySpace for Save the Internet. There are now 400 friends on the MySpace profile, including the well-regarded IPTV broadcast Ask A Ninja. The Internet is very well-liked.

In related news, Alex Curtis’s video on net neutrality has been seen over 8000 times.

I’ve never seen a pickup like this on a cause, and we haven’t even officially announced. Congress is assuming that people don’t really care about telecom regulations. This is not true, we very much do care about the internet.

I hadn’t thought of it this way, but already this campaign is showing how the telcos vision of a gated community is far inferior in quality, creativity, and speed of a free and open internet. For instance, no one told Alex to make the video; we didn’t collaborate on it, and he didn’t run it by anyone over here to see if it was good. He just made it, put it on YouTube, blogged it on the Public Knowledge site, and other people liked it and blogged it. No one forced anyone to watch the video, or send it to friends. It wasn’t astroturfed with millions of dollars of telecom money.

A free and open internet is just something people care about, precisely because it allows them to choose their own path, watch what they want, and learn what they want.

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