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National Conference Call Today: Strange Bedfellows Unite to Save the Internet25 April 2006
News Advisory:
RSVP Required - TODAY (MONDAY): National Conference Call -- 1 p.m. EST
Today, Strange Bedfellows Unite to Save the Internet
"Father of the Internet" Vint Cerf joins diverse group including Gun Owners of America, Craig from Craigslist, librarians, and consumer groups to announce SavetheInternet.com Coalition
National campaign will stop Congress & telecom companies from gutting the Internet's First Amendment. Web sites should never have to pay "protection money" to dominant Internet providers to ensure free speech online.
A diverse SavetheInternet.com Coalition will hold a national conference call today -- Monday -- at 1 p.m. EST to announce a campaign to defend the Internet from a bill being voted on in the House of Representatives beginning this week that would gut Internet freedom.
"Internet freedom is under attack this week by telecom companies who are spending millions lobbying Congress to gut Network Neutrality, the First Amendment of the Internet," said Timothy Karr, campaign director of Free Press. "Net Neutrality ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing companies like AT&T from rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying sites and services."
Today -- Monday, April 24 -- at 1 p.m. EST, Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet," will join in the announcement of a diverse SavetheInternet.Com Coalition, which will run a national campaign to preserve Internet freedom and Net Neutrality.
The coalition includes: Gun Owners of America, MoveOn.org, Craig Newmark of Craigslist, Glenn Reynolds (aka libertarian blogger Instapundit), American Library Association, Afro-Netizen.com, the Consumer Federation of America, the Consumers Union, Public Knowledge, and other major public interest groups. The coalition is spearheaded by Free Press, a national, nonpartisan group focused on media reform and Internet policy issues, and the Web site up at http://www.SavetheInternet.com.
To RSVP for the call, please email Alex@Fenton.com. Space is limited.
The call-in number will be 800-362-0571 -- conference ID is "Save the Web"
Without Net Neutrality, issue organizations would essentially have to pay protection money to dominant Internet providers or risk that their Web sites were not as fully functional as corporate sites.
"Gun Owners of America opposes any attempt to limit or curtail political speech," said Craig Fields, director of Internet operations for Gun Owners of America. "Without statutory network neutrality, there is nothing to prevent big telecom companies from injecting political bias into the very skeleton of modern communications. If the telecoms believe they can frame opposition to their power grab as a liberal or anti-free-market attack, they are sadly mistaken."
WHAT: National conference call -- launch of SavetheInternet.com Coalition's national campaign to protect Net Neutrality
WHEN: TODAY -- Monday -- April 24, 1 p.m. EDT / 10 a.m. PDT
WHO:
-- Vint Cerf, "Father of the Internet"
-- Craig Fields, Gun Owners of America
-- Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist
-- Gigi Sohn, Public Knowledge
-- Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America
-- Chris Rabb, Afro-Netizen.com
-- American Library Association
PLEASE RSVP: Alex@Fenton.com
To join the call, dial 800-362-0571 -- conference ID is "Save the Web"
This week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is expected to vote on the "Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006," a major overhaul of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The current version of the bill -- sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Rep. Charles Pickering (R-Miss.), and Rep. Bobby Rush -- includes no meaningful protections for network neutrality.
"The future of the free, open and innovative Internet we have all enjoyed through the years is not guaranteed," said Gigi Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a public interest group working on technology and intellectual property issues. "If the bill before the House Commerce Committee gives control of the Internet to the telephone and cable companies, the Internet we have come to appreciate could well cease to exist, and it will be almost impossible to get it back."
For more information, visit http://www.SavetheInternet.com
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