Thanks!

SavetheInternet.com’s “standout” grassroots coalition just won top honors as the “Internet Hero of 2006.”

“A grass roots organization put together by the media-reform advocates at FreePress.net, The SaveTheInternet.com coalition took on the most powerful players around (Congress and the telecommunications industry) to drum up support for Net Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment,” WebProNews’ Jason Lee Miller wrote in his year-end summary of winners and losers on the Web.

“Because of Free Press, SaveTheInternet.com, and MoveOn.org, an obscure, difficult to grasp concept won the support of 1.3 million petitioners, who made 50,000 phone calls to Congress, and spread the word to hundreds of thousands of others,” he added. “What’s happened in the last year has been nothing short of amazing, and those heroics should be recognized.”

Americans dodged a bullet when telephone and cable industry’s legislative juggernaut stalled in the 109th Congress. But AT&T, Comcast and Verizon will be back with their lobbyists, lawyers and phony grassroots groups in 2007. Thanks to all of you, we now have a better chance and larger voice to tell Congress to advance our interests, instead of merely following industry dictates.

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