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Altaira
31st January 2014, 10:24
Every day our freedom has been taken away more and more. In the last few decades thanks to the internet, we felt empowered and stronger, knowing there are many of us out in the world who think the same way. This hasn't been unnoticed by those who want to control the world, their new order has been threatened by the mass awakening that is taking place today. Logical step after all measures to control the population growth by poisoning the earth is to suppress communications and divide the masses who have already gathered strength. I think this Avaaz petition is very important and I hope it will be successful. I posted the link below and the e-mail I received from Avaaz.org

The richest 1% could now control what we all see on the Internet forever. It’s the apocalypse of the Internet as we know it, and will erase the democratic promise of an information highway for everyone the founders of the world wide web imagined.

Together, our community has built on that vision, using the web to fight corruption, save lives, and bring people-powered aid to countries in crisis. But the US and the EU are on the verge of giving the richest corporations the right to show content fast, while paywalling or slowing down everything else. Avaaz’s ability to show the world citizen journalist footage from Syria, or run campaigns to save our planet is under threat!

Decisions on both sides of the Atlantic are being made now. But tech innovators, free speech advocates and the best web companies are fighting back. If millions of us join them now we can create the largest call for a democratic and free Internet ever. Sign up now and tell everyone


http://www.avaaz.org/en/internet_apocalypse_pa_eu/?bglkKdb&v=34958


Until now, any improvements in the speed and functioning of the Internet benefited all of us — if Rupert Murdoch’s ultra-conservative Fox News got a faster way to stream videos, it also benefitted independent media showing reality on the ground in Ukraine, Syria, or Palestine. Politicians called this “net neutrality” and laws protecting it used to exist in the United States until a court just struck them down. Now, the EU Parliament is threatening to pass regulation that give ISPs the right to carve up the web and control what we see, by slowing down or charging for sites that don't pay.

But we can stop this. First, we will show up with massive global numbers into this week’s public meeting in the United States to decide whether to reinstate Internet protections. Then we will unleash a high powered lobby team to target the EU Parliament to ensure its committees listen to the public. This will be the big first step we need to win these important battles over the next few months.

Web providers like Verizon and Vodafone are lobbying hard for an Internet for the rich. And without a massive response from citizens, they could win, and put our whole community’s work at risk. Most of our Internet is located in the US and the EU so this affects us all. We don’t have any time to lose.

Mark
31st January 2014, 11:36
Done and shared.

777
31st January 2014, 12:31
Done and shared.

Ditto :-)

john parslow
31st January 2014, 12:32
ditto ...

norman
21st May 2014, 01:27
The Plan to Kill the Internet Uncovered................

http://hw.infowars.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/200514web.jpg


The Internet has emerged as the most empowering tool of individual freedom since the Gutenberg’s press, affording billions of people worldwide not only the tool of instant communication, but access to a wealth of liberating information, freedom from the chains of received consensus, and the opportunity to become their own media platform.

This represents an ever increasing threat to the status quo of the elite, which is why the establishment is working feverishly to dismantle the freedom granted by the world wide web in its current form.


http://www.infowars.com/the-plan-to-kill-the-internet-uncovered/