SavetheInternet.com Wants to Do the Opposite
We never thought we would see such a brazen effort in the US to deceive ordinary folks in an effort to steal their rights and subject them to control. You come to expect that in dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, but not in the freest country on earth.
Communists are masters at naming their governmental grabs for power just the opposite of what they really want to accomplish. The Great Leap Forward did just the opposite, ending in widespread famine and economic ruin that resulted in tens of millions of deaths. The Cultural Revolution stripped traditional culture, values, and education from China, and brought chaos to the formerly great nation.
SavetheInternet.com is a bogus website dedicated to the destruction of the very freedom you enjoy on the Internet. Sponsored by FreePress.net, another example of opposite-day nomenclature, SavetheInternet.com has the goal of taking the Internet out of private hands and putting it into the government’s.
The proponents of Net Neutrality supposedly want to preserve a free and open Internet. SavetheInternet.com asserts that Net Neutrality “prevents Internet providers from blocking, speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.” However, the whole premise of Net Neutrality is bogus. The net is already neutral.
Since when have ISPs blocked anything on the Internet? Have you ever been blocked from a site? Not in this country, because the Internet is in the hands of private people just like you. It is not controlled by the government. In fact many people already think it is too open, and are offended by pornography and other questionable sites that are able to be seen by anyone with Internet access. However, that is the price we pay for freedom of speech.
If the government has its way the open and free Internet will be history. They tried to seize it in the 90′s by proclaiming “family values.” They used demands that the government “clean up the filth” on the Internet to try to gain control. That didn’t fly because Americans hold sacred their First Amendment rights. Not to be defeated, these savvy power-mongers bided their time until the time was ripe to put forth a new strategy. This go-around they lined up on the side of the libertarians with their assertions of keeping the Internet open. However once the government is in control, good-bye liberty.
We’ll say it again, when was the last time your ISP blocked YOU from ANY content? They haven’t of course because it is against their financial interest to do so. Here at the Institute we have Internet veterans that have been in the business since the very beginning. These folks have dedicated to the free and open Internet, it is their very life. They are typical of the professionals that dedicate their very lives to protecting your right to information.
Information is power, and this administration wants to stifle access to information. They would like nothing better than to be able to block you from accessing sites that provide alternative viewpoints to their big government agenda. This government is the very entity that seeks to block you and limit your access.
Are you are interested in liberty, in the freedom of speech, the right to assemble? Virtual assembly may now be more important than physical assembly. This is the first in a series of articles from the NIP that will expose these people for who they are. Your freedom is at stake. Tell others about this and urge your congressmen and senators to block the unelected FCC bureaucrats in their effort to seize control of the Internet. If you are interested in your Internet freedom you can start here:
- Send everyone you know a link to this page.
- Leave a comment here showing that you understand what is at stake.
Again, more baloney from the NIP. Government is the only way to insure net neutrality. The post office certainly is net neutral. We get stuff from them all the time. Of course it costs more it seems for postage every few months. That’s because people like you are dumping them for email and the web.
Guys like you should take this kind of site off the web and print a nice magazine and mail it for crying out loud. That would let the post office start making money again. I wish that the FCC would put the web in the hands of the post office. They would do a great job keeping it open for everyone from 9 to 5 every day.
@Sarah M. Don’t you mean 9 to 5, five days a week?
My ISPs block me all the time. They have blocked port 25 (trying to force me to use their mailserver). They block *everything* inbound to my cell phone. Comcast has been publicly humiliated when it was revealed they were blocking p2p traffic. The author of this article is an uninformed neocon (is there any other kind?), if the ads in the sidebar weren’t big enough red flags for everyone.
P.S. My post office stays open until 6:30pm