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New White House Petition For Net Neutrality

Posted by Unknown on from the money-speaks-louder-than-petitions dept.

Bob9113 (14996) writes "On the heels of yesterday's FCC bombshell, there is a new petition on the White House petition site titled, 'Maintain true net neutrality to protect the freedom of information in the United States.' The body reads: 'True net neutrality means the free exchange of information between people and organizations. Information is key to a society's well being. One of the most effective tactics of an invading military is to inhibit the flow of information in a population; this includes which information is shared and by who. Today we see this war being waged on American citizens. Recently the FCC has moved to redefine "net neutrality" to mean that corporations and organizations can pay to have their information heard, or worse, the message of their competitors silenced. We as a nation must settle for nothing less than complete neutrality in our communication channels. This is not a request, but a demand by the citizens of this nation. No bandwidth modifications of information based on content or its source.'"

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  1. Oh, yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because this time, the Government will listen to a petition of the people posted on a website.

    1. Re:Oh, yes! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes, this time!

      http://change.gov/agenda/ethic...

              "I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."

              -- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
              November 10, 2007

  2. Re:No source-based bandwidth modifications. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cool, now you can't stop my DOS attack.

    The joke is on you, I'm running OS/2 Warp.

  3. Re:No source-based bandwidth modifications. by OneAhead · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha, you fell into my "pedantic nitpicking" trap! I deliberately typed "draw" and not "stalemate" because a stalemate is a specific kind of draw where the player to move has no legal move. "You can't stop my DoS attack - but you cannot stop mine either" is more like a threefold repetition or a fifty-move rule kind of draw, where both parties still can do things, but it's always the same and nobody gets closer to winning.