Binary Blonde

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet.

Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from choosing which websites open most easily for you based on which site pays AT&T more. Amazon.com doesn’t have to outbid Barnes & Noble for the right to work more properly on your computer.

Politicians don’t think we are paying attention to this issue. Many of them take campaign checks from big telecom companies and are on the verge of selling out to people like AT&T’s CEO, who openly says, “The internet can’t be free.”

The free and open Internet is under seige–can you sign this petition letting your member of Congress know you support preserving Network Neutrality? Click here: http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/?id=7449-1760363-CkKHjM4D3JO9R1pVLNaSqg&t=1

A list of all the ways you might be affected by Net Neutrality is located on the bottom of this link: http://civic.moveon.org/alerts/savetheinternet.html

We had our “Primary Nominating Election” (l33t speak for “Voting Day”) for our Mayor and a bunch of other important city and county officers today. I’m proud to say that since I turned 18, I never missed casting my vote on voting days, either state, county or city. Even after I got off the plane from my second pet rescue trip last November, feeling like shit and exhausted, I still went straight to the voting booths after a quick stop at home to get my voting guide. The guilt would plague me to this day if I hadn’t gone!

Sure, I wonder if it’s all in vain because of all the fraud running rampant in our voting systems, but I’d rather take the 10 minutes to do just in case it does really count. Hey, I like to be blindly optimistic sometimes. 😉

President Bush wiretapped American citizens without warrants. He shouldn’t have. It’s totally illegal. As in, he broke the law (nothing new for him, though).

Yesterday, Senator Russ Feingold stuck his neck out and introduced a resolution to censure President Bush. Just like for every other Joe Shmoe, there should be consequences for misleading the public and Congress and willfully and repeatedly breaking the law, no? Censuring the president means Congress officially acknowledges that the president broke the law and condemns him for doing it. Given the scale of the president’s problem, it’s a very reasonable first step to holding him accountable.

MoveOn.org is asking for 250,000 signatures to show broad public support for Senator Feingold’s resolution. So, if you have a 30 seconds and agree with asking Congress to join the call for censure, sign the petition:

http://political.moveon.org/censure/