Save the Internet

SAVE THE INTERNET, STOP BIG MEDIA FROM TAKING OVER, CHARGING US PER USE, LIMITING USAGE, AND STOP THEIR LIES.

I tried to add a widget from Save the Media, but it wouldn't work, perhaps due to my own mistakes, but regardless of the reason, the message is too important to skip just because I can't get the widget to work.

http://www.freepress.net is the link for the homepage of the website if you want to read all their info about what's going on and what's being done to try and stop it.

http://www.freepress.net/astroturf is the link for the site to go to if you wanna see what they have to say specifically about the phony groups hired by the big companies - such as Time Warner - to spread lies and try to stop those that are stopping them from metering our internet use, making our bill MUCH higher AND limiting our access to the net. This link also has the interactive free widget that I couldn't make work here, if you wanna give it a go.

I receive their newsletter and here I'm gonna copy and paste the latest one, telling us about the astroturf groups - their name for fake grassroots groups.

Net Neutrality is under attack from "astroturf" groups -- phony grassroots organizations funded by powerful phone and cable companies to spread lies and misinformation.

These hired guns are painting Net Neutrality and the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (HR 3458) as an attempt to "socialize the Internet." They call people like you and me "extremists" for supporting a free-flowing Web.

Their rhetoric is frozen in the Cold War era. All Net Neutrality really does is protect market innovation, consumer choice and free speech online.

Now we're fighting back. Today, Free Press launched Astroturf: Exposing the Fake Grassroots -- an interactive online tool that reveals the money behind front groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Heartland Institute and Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks:

Check out 'Astroturf: Exposing the Fake Grassroots'

Mighty phone and cable companies have controlled Internet policy in Washington for years. They set up astroturf groups and launch deceptive "consumer" Web sites to fool politicians and the media into thinking that everyday people support their harmful policy positions.

It's time to set the record straight. Free Press has pulled together the SavetheInternet.com Coalition, which now represents more than 800 groups, from the Christian Coalition to MoveOn.org and the SEIU to the American Library Association. More than 1.5 million activists -- from all walks of life and across the political spectrum -- have signed our petition in support of Net Neutrality.

Help us pull back the curtain on astroturf and tell people the truth about Net Neutrality.

Expose the Shills and Front Groups

We need everyone -- including the media and members of Congress -- to learn about these phony front groups. You can forward the widget to your friends, and we've made it easy to post it on your own Web site or blog.

Thanks for your help!

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
www.freepress.net
www.savetheinternet.com

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Of course they need donations to keep doing their work, and will ask every tie, but are grateful if you just spread the word = its obvious many ppl can't afford to give now and since the whole point is to spread the word... Besides, this is for us in the first place since its our access that'll be limited and our bills to go way up.