LET'S FIGHT FOR INTERNET!

LET’S FIGHT FOR INTERNET!

The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the right to control what we all see on the Internet. It’s the apocalypse of the Internet as we know it. Let’s fight to maintain Internet free.

 THREAT TO INTERNET FROM POWERFUL CORPORATIONS (Pascal V. - Avaaz.org [avaaz@avaaz.org], Jan. 29. 2014)

The richest 1% could now control what we all see on the Internet forever. It’s the apocalypse of the Internet as we know it, and will erase the democratic promise of an information highway for everyone the founders of the world wide web imagined.

Web providers like Verizon and Vodafone are lobbying hard for an Internet for the rich. And without a massive response from citizens, they could win, and put our whole community’s work at risk.

Decisions on both sides of the Atlantic are being made now. But tech innovators, free speech advocates and the best web companies are fighting back. If millions of us join them now we can create the largest call for a democratic and free Internet ever. Sign up now and tell everyone:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_loc/?bNISLeb&v=34951

http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_loc/?czmOlbb

SOURCES:

On dangers of non-Network Neutrality (ABC news):
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/major-ways-internet-change-net-neutrality/story?id=21541399

Save the Internet
http://savetheinternet.eu/en/

EU telecoms market reforms threaten net neutrality and privacy (Wired)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/19/eu-telecoms-reform-concerns

Federal court strikes down FCC net neutrality rules (The Verge)
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/14/5307650/federal-court-strikes-down-net-neutrality-rules

Summary of BEREC positions on net neutrality (BEREC)
http://berec.europa.eu/files/document_register_store/2012/12/BoR_(12)_146_Summary_of_BEREC_positions_on_net_neutrality2.pdf