Kathleen Gresham

Corporations should not control the Internet!

I'm a political activist, a blogger (not on politics), a webmaster (several web sites, two of them on spiritual belief systems that are not mainstream), and a person who gets almost all her news and information from the Web.

I'm also an Internet marketing entrepreneur. I make my living as a small business owner on the Internet.

Net neutrality is essential to my making a living and having a life.

I get Internet access through AT&T, the only DSL source in my area. I happen to know they are politically active on the right. I don't want them controlling what I can access or what I can do on the World Wide Web!

Net Neutrality is essential to free speech, equal opportunity and economic innovation in America. Since the FCC removed this basic protection in 2005, the top executives of phone and cable companies have stated their intention to become the Internet's gatekeepers and to discriminate against Web sites that don't pay their added tolls.

I can't afford to pay their extortionate tax on the Internet.

This fundamental change would end the open Internet as we know it. It would damage my ability to connect with others, share information and participate in our 21st century democracy and economy. It would also put me and many others out of business.

The FCC must ensure that broadband providers do not block, interfere with or discriminate against any lawful Internet traffic based on its ownership, source or destination.

Democracy depends on free speech and free access to news and information. Small business depends on a Net neutrality!