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Help Save the Internet!

Do you know Congress is considering a law that would abolish the Internet’s First Amendment – a principle called "Network Neutrality," which prevents companies like AT&T and Comcast from herding you to certain Web sites that pay them the most?

CUB is a member of "Save the Internet.Com", a broad coalition of groups fighting to stop the cable and telephone giants from robbing you of your Internet freedom and draining your pocketbook.

We need your help, so please take action now!

Here’s how this threat to Internet freedom affects you (as described by Save the Internet.Com):

Parents and retirees – Your choices as a consumer could be controlled by your Internet provider, steering you to its preferred services for online banking, health care information, sending photos, planning vacations, etc.

Telephone/Cable Consumers – When Internet companies like AT&T or Comcast favor their own services, you won’t be able to choose more affordable alternatives for online video or Internet phone calls.

Google Users – A search engine could pay dominant Internet providers like AT&T to guarantee that it opens faster than Google on your computer.

iPod listeners - A company like Comcast could slow access to iTunes, steering you to a higher-priced music service that it owned.

Online purchasers – Companies could pay Internet providers to guarantee their online sales process faster than competitors with lower prices – distorting your choice as a consumer.

If the cable and telephone giants get their way, they will reduce your choice and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect on the Internet. So please take action today.

Click on the provided link to send a message in support of "Net Neutrality" to Senators Obama and Durbin and your Representative in Congress. (note: I didn't include the link because it's a link for Illinois residences.)

Then please forward this message to as many people as possible.

Citizens Utility Board
www.citizensutilityboard.org
www.cubaction.org

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