The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Google And Verizon Are Not The Makers Of Public Internet Policy ********** [185731:021411] J.H., Pottsville, PA Google And Verizon Are Not The Makers Of Public Internet Policy omething stunningly outrageous happened this week, when Google and Verizon announced they had reached a "deal" for the future of the internet. Since when is it the place of special interest corporations to determine what public policy should be? Actually it has been going on in back rooms all along, a prime recent example being a health care bill written (the one that passed) substantially by Liz Fowler, a former Wellpoint executive, who is now apparently in line to also administrate the bill she wrote (another outrage). But never before has it been so brazen that two industry giants should publicly declare they have reached a private agreement, and to expect Congress and the President to just fall in line. They must not. Congress must reject this private carving up of the public interest, and instead establish clear principles in law that industry giants must not be allowed to use their power to discriminate access to the internet of the future. ********** [063301:102910] M.Z., Newton, IA Protecting freedom of expression depends upon protecting net neutrality. If the power of the internet is turned over to control by private interests, our democracy will be in serious jeopardy. ********** [205502:092610] b.s., Los Angeles, CA Why was I rejected when I tried to not submit my phone number ? ********** [015206:092610] m.h., Inkster, MI Congress has given corporations too much power already. That is why our economy collapsed worldwide. I urge you to start placing limits on the anti-competitive practices of corporations. Reduce their power and be worthy of the two Roosevelts who took on the corporate giants of their day to set up the conditions for our country to economically prosper. ********** [105207:092310] E.W., Baltimore, MD This is outrageous, arrogant and a BAD idea that we can't let them get away with! ********** [184210:091910] S.K., Salem, OR I am sick of being forced to continually buy new eqipment at considerable expense because of the corporate control of all media. ********** [111042:090810] V.M., Williams, OR NO private corporation business to own the internet. It is free, no ownership. NO and No again. ********** [235721:090610] A.G., Denver, CO Google And Verizon Are Not The Makers Of Public Internet Policy ********** [055301:090510] C.U., Bremerton, WA The internet is the only source of alternative news and resources with universal access. Don't let Google and Verizon determine the policy re: the status of the public's access to the internet resources. ********** [060702:090310] J.S., Miami, FL Corporations should not trump the rights of our citizens by making their own rules. Labor unions came about with such shnenigans because corporations are only concerned with the finanical bottom line. ********** [052515:090310] M.D., Fort Lauderdale, FL The Internet should be actknowledged as under our second amendment... ********** [054111:090110] .M., Jamaica, NY This is just another example or the inevitably disastrous results of giving corporations the rights of individual citizens! ********** [180349:083110] M.G., Alexandria, VA Do not allow privately owned corporations to dictate U.S. Internet Policy ********** [113503:082710] G.M., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA The "Original Intent" of the Declaration of Independence and the Costitution were to provide rights and freedoms to humans. Many of the Founding Fathers expressed concern about powerfully wealthy businesses and people infringing on the People's rights. The flawed and incomplete laws and court findings treating corporations as people must be modified to reduce their application to business law and recognize that they are not U.S. citizens in the sense of people. Even the right to lobby legislators should be limited their own business interests, subject to stockholder approval, and not tax deductible. ********** [094411:082710] L.R., Salem, OR We must take immediate action to protect our first amendment rights in the digital realm. ********** [133759:082610] j.d., Martinez, CA Corporations should not be writing policy that limits the public's access to a whole, free and open internet. Please help protect free access in America and don't let us become like China whose people have much limited access per their government. ********** [133630:082610] R.H., Martinez, CA Please stop the corporations from writing policy that limits the public's access to a whole, free and open internet. ********** [133457:082610] j.j., Martinez, CA Corporations are not people and do not deserve the same rights and privileges as people. Please help us stop the corporations from writing policy that limits the public's access to a whole, free and open internet. ********** [162024:082510] S.C., Bartonsville, PA Keep the Internet free! Big corporation such as Verizon and Google should not be permitted to set policy for the internet, or control what sites we can access. ********** [170153:082410] G.B., Melville, LA Net neutrality is one way to decrease the chances of an oligarchy. ********** [151533:082410] E.B., Seattle, WA Keep Net Neutrality! ********** [151212:082310] R.B., Byers, CO Why are we letting the the telecommunications industry write it's own regulations? How many Enrons, AIGs, BPs, or Massey Energys will it take before Congress realizes that industries DO NOT SELF-POLICE. When they write their own rules, you get slickly presented documents with cleverly hidden loopholes that basically exempt them from any substance the new laws might claim to have, while Congress or regulatory bodies take credit for rules they had no part in making. Then, a few years down the line, the industries' exploitative practices wind up leading to disastrous failures that substantially hurt the nation and trample basic civil rights, and despite the scale of the disasters Federal politicians don't seem to learn a damn thing from them! Of course, they get re-elected despite this gross incompetence, and even when they don't get re-elected they can find cushy jobs in industry and lobbying afterward, so why should they care? This is how nations fall. One corrupt decision at a time. It must stop soon, if it is not too late already, or things are going to get very bad in this country. ********** [130334:082310] r.j., Granada Hills, CA corporations are not only, 'not THE people', corporations ARE NOT PEOPLE PERIOD!! ********** [030035:082310] D.K., Santa Barbara, CA This is outrageous! ********** [194045:082210] G.A., Concord, NH Do not allow Google, Verizon, nor any other corporation or special interest group to control access to the internet. Protect our rights and freedoms from these greedy, malicious neo-con fascists. ********** Go Back