Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies
December 8th, 2006 by tkarr |
The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet.
The fate of Net Neutrality has now been passed to what appears to be a more Web-friendly Congress.
Our Coalition pledges to work with new Members to craft policies that ensure all Americans can access the Internet and enjoy the unlimited choices it has to offer.
The end of this Congress — and death of Sen. Ted Stevens’ bad bill — gives us the chance to have a long overdue public conversation about what the future of the Internet should look like. This will not only include ensuring Net Neutrality, but making the Internet faster, more affordable and accessible.
‘Huge Victory for Real People’
As the 109th comes to a close, Coalition members today praised our efforts in 2006 and discussed ways we can work towards a better Internet:
“This is a huge victory for real people and a clear signal to the next Congress that standing up for big bold ideas is a winning political proposition,” said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action.
Companies like AT&T, Verizon, BellSouth and Comcast spent more than $150 million to push Congress to gut Net Neutrality. But in the end, they couldn’t overcome widespread public opposition.
“The people’s attention to the issue of Net Neutrality is more powerful than any legislation — and this year proves that,” said Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University Law School and author of Who Controls the Internet.
‘It’s About Fairness’
Network Neutrality has been part of the Internet since its inception, ensuring that the service providers who control the “pipes” don’t interfere with content based on its ownership or source. “Net neutrality is just about fairness and a level playing field,” said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist. “It’s that simple.”
“Industry will be back with their money and phony grassroots groups,” said Jeannine Kenney, senior policy analyst at Consumers Union. “But next time around, with a public now well-informed of what’s at stake, we hope Congress will take up broadband policy that advances consumer — not just industry — needs.”
The more than 850 groups in the SavetheInternet.com Coalition also include the National Religious Broadcasters, the Service Employees International Union, the American Library Association, Educause, Gun Owners of America, Future of Music Coalition, Parents Television Council, the ACLU, and every major consumer group in the country. These are supported by a community of more than a million small businesspeople, bloggers, MySpacers, YouTubers, activists and citizens who signed petitions, called Congress and pounded on their senators’ doors.
“As an activist and new media advocate, I am encouraged by our prospects in Congress for protecting the egalitarian spirit of the Internet and all people’s unfettered access to it,” said Christopher Rabb, founder of Afro-Netizen. “This fight has even greater impact on underserved communities, particularly among African-Americans, who rarely own or control the content we consume in mainstream media.”
‘The Fight for Net Neutrality Has Only Begun’
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While the defeat of HR 5252 is a major step forward, the future of the Internet remains in jeopardy until Congress passes meaningful, enforceable protections for Net Neutrality. Such legislation will be a top priority for members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition when the legislators return in January.
“Despite a Congress deeply in the pocket of telecom lobbyists, the public banded together to stop attacks on our free and open Internet,” declared Michael Kieschnick, president of the Working Assets. “In 2007, we will continue the fight to preserve this precious public good by making Network Neutrality the law of the land.”
“The potent combination of grassroots support and the facts stopped a bad bill,” said Mark Cooper, director of research for the Consumer Federation of America. “But the fight for Net Neutrality has only begun.”
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December 9th, 2006 at 12:44 am
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December 9th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
[…] Senator Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens’ rewrite of the Telecommunications Act (H.R. 5252) has failed. SaveTheInternet.com says: The end of this Congress — and death of Sen. Ted Stevens’ bad bill — gives us the chance to have a long overdue public conversation about what the future of the Internet should look like. This will not only include ensuring Net Neutrality, but making the Internet faster, more affordable and accessible. […]
December 9th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
[…] Read about it here. […]
December 10th, 2006 at 12:19 am
[…] A post on SaveTheInternet.com announces that HR 5252 has been defeated in Congress (background reading on network neutrality at Wikipedia). This is the famous “Anti Net Neutrality Bill” sponsored by Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens. Yes, the same Ted Stevens that gave us the following choice quotes: “…an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday. Why?” “They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.” […]
December 10th, 2006 at 2:17 am
[…] The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet. From Save The internet blog […]
December 10th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Net Neutrality is Here to Stay…
The Save the Internet blog reports that Congress has dismissed Senator Ted Stevens’ anti-net neutrality bill. The bill would have given massive telecommunications corporations the ability to charge extra fees to guarantee that certain websites op…
December 10th, 2006 at 8:47 am
[…] read more | digg story […]
December 10th, 2006 at 11:28 am
[…] Full article here. […]
December 10th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
[…] On the front page of digg.com this morning was a blog story about the defeat of the “Anti-Net Neutrality” bill, more formally known as House Resolution 5252. The mainstream news doesn’t seem to be covering this, but it seems that with the end of the 109th Congressional session, the proposed Telecommunications Act has been dismissed. The digg page is here, and the original story (coming from the “Save the Internet” blog) is here. Not the best source on the web, but it seems to be accurate in this case. I’m interested to see how this is covered in mainstream news media. […]
December 10th, 2006 at 3:02 pm
[…] http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2006/12/08/congress-closes-telco-bill-dies-on-the-vine/ “Industry will be back with their money and phony grassroots groups,” said Jeannine Kenney, senior policy analyst at Consumers Union. “But next time around, with a public now well-informed of what’s at stake, we hope Congress will take up broadband policy that advances consumer — not just industry — needs.” […]
December 10th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
[…] This is good. If you don’t want to read some really long article, just know this. A bill was defeated in Congress that would destroy net neutrality. […]
December 10th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
[…] Fortunately with the demiae of the 109th comes the demise of the anti-net neutrality bill which would have killed the Internet as we know it today. Check out an article on the demise of the bill here. […]
December 10th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
[…] It looks like Net Neutrality is here to stay. This is a huge victory for “we the people.” (via Stammy) […]
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December 10th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
[…] A huge victory for internet users FROM Save the Internet Blog Blog Archive Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies Congrats All!!!! The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet. The fate of Net Neutrality has now been passed to what appears to be a more Web-friendly Congress. Our Coalition pledges to work with new Members to craft policies that ensure all Americans can access the Internet and enjoy the unlimited choices it has to offer. The end of this Congress and death of Sen. Ted Stevens bad bill gives us the chance to have a long overdue public conversation about what the future of the Internet should look like. This will not only include ensuring Net Neutrality, but making the Internet faster, more affordable and accessible. […]
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[…] Save the Internet Blog » Blog Archive » Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies HOORAY! No net neutrality! (tags: congress internet netneutrality neutrality politics usa) […]
December 11th, 2006 at 1:38 am
[…] Telco bill dies and Net neutrality survives. […]
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December 11th, 2006 at 4:04 am
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December 11th, 2006 at 7:48 am
[…] This bill now seems to have fizzled out according to the Save the Internet Blog: “Huge Victory for Real People as Telco Bill Dies“. […]
December 11th, 2006 at 8:15 am
[…] Democratic Internet is taking over: The New York Times just surrendered to social news, the Telco Bill died and recently YouTube’s traffic passed Microsoft’s corporate website. That last takeover parallels the takeover of free countries over non free countries in 1986. […]
December 11th, 2006 at 9:09 am
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December 11th, 2006 at 1:44 pm
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December 11th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
[…] It looks like the fate of Net Neutrality will be decided by a different Congress… read more at Save the Internet. […]
December 12th, 2006 at 1:02 am
[…] Save The Internet Blog takes a victory lap: The gavel has fallen on the 109th Congress marking the demise of entrenched corporate efforts to legislate away our Internet freedoms — and a stunning victory for real people who want to retain control of the Internet. […]
December 12th, 2006 at 3:20 am
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December 13th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
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December 16th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
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December 18th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
[…] Oh yeah, one more thing for the pro-net neutrality supporters. HR-5252, Sen. Ted Steven’s telcom bill, is dead with the end of the 109th Congress. When they reconvene in January, Congress will be filled with more net neutrality friendly legislators. Granted, the telcoms will only come back, but at least this time they can’t ignore the grassroots efforts that have informed the public about what is going on. Afterall, Time Magazine made a very valid point with this year’s “person of the year“. […]
December 18th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
[…] From Save The Internet.com: Together we won the first round in the battle for Net freedom. But the phone and cable giants are launching a counterattack. We need to raise the alarm and send a clear message to our new Congress: Make Net Neutratlity the Law in 2007! […]
December 25th, 2006 at 5:29 am
[…] Which is why it’s so great to hear HR 5252 has been officially told to piss off. Movements like SaveTheInternet.com and MoveOn.org have put a dent in telecommunication company’s plans to degrade the communication not associated with their company or its clients. Brad King describes this issue in on his TechnologyReview.com blog. VoIP companies have been the main business beneficiary of this development, as they can freely compete with the larger, more established players in the communication industry. But the real benefits go to the public at large as they get to choose what content they see, when, and from whom. […]
January 8th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
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January 17th, 2007 at 2:12 am
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January 31st, 2007 at 12:41 am
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March 19th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
[…] Neutrality? A lot of people stopped paying attention when the Telco bill that got everyone upset died but because no one passed the bills that would make it illegal to bring the idea up again later […]
March 31st, 2007 at 2:30 pm
[…] Ted “The Internet is a series of tubes” Stevens, his bad antiu Net-Neutrality bill are deeply compromised and many of the Telco friendly legislators are looking for new jobs. But the DEEP pockets of Big Telco are not going to give up. They smell money and they are on it. […]
July 9th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
[…] Link to Save the Internet Blog “This is a huge victory for real people and a clear signal to the next Congress that standing up for big bold ideas is a winning political proposition,” said Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org Civic Action. […]
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:53 am
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