SavetheInternet.com Hailed Before the Senate
May 25th, 2006 by tkarrFree Press Policy Director Ben Scott testified before the Senate today on behalf of SavetheInternet.com coalition members Free Press, Consumers Union and Consumer Federation of America. This from his statement:
Civic engagement on network neutrality represents the most diverse public response to a communications policy issues in recent history. A grassroots effort led by the “Save the Internet” Coalition (www.savetheinternet.com) includes nearly 700 organizations, from small community groups to large national organizations. Banded together in this coalition are the Gun Owners of America, Feminist Majority, Parents Television Council, American Library Association, Consumers Union, and Educause. Network Neutrality is also supported by AARP, the ACLU, the Christian Coalition and the National Religious Broadcasters.
More than 700,000 individuals have signed a petition to Congress demanding Internet freedom through meaningful Network Neutrality. Thousands of bloggers of all political stripes and interests, from Daily Kos and Instapundit to video gamers, musicians and educators, have championed the issue and encouraged public involvement in the campaign. The world’s most renowned experts on Internet technology, law, and policy have written prominently on the issue. This massive civic coalition stands next to a similarly large and unprecedented coalition in the commercial sector, joining together the Internet content and technology industries. Google, Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, eBay, are joined by hundreds of smaller online retailers and technology firms. The campaign to preserve Network Neutrality protections is perhaps the most diverse set of public and private interests backing any single issue in Washington today.
Scott urged the Senators on the Commerce Committee to support Sens. Snowe and Dorgan’s “Internet Freedom Preservation Act.” Scott concluded:
The choice before the Committee is clear: allow consumers through an unfettered online marketplace to decide which businesses succeed or fail; or allow the dominant telephone and cable duopoly to use its marketplace power to exclude the entrepreneurs who offer consumers affordable and innovative communications products and services. We urge you to adopt the former direction. The future of the Internet, the health of the communications marketplace and the well-being of consumers depends on it.
Read Scott’s full statement here.
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