House Vote Will be Crucial to Future of Your Internet

HOUSE VOTE WILL BE CRUCIAL TO FUTURE OF THE INTERNET
[SOURCE: Kansas City Infozine]
[Commentary] Within the next two weeks, and with very little media attention, the House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act, also known as the COPE bill. The bill will have an impact on every American family, but the only agenda that will be promoted and enhanced by this bill will be that of the country's largest telephone and cable companies. As the House prepares to vote soon, the House leadership wants this bill to be rushed through before the public gets a chance to voice its opposition. But that opposition already is being heard. Common Cause alone has generated more than 80,000 e-mails and calls to Congress and telecommunications executives calling for 'net neutrality:" As one Member of Congress put it: "There's a prairie fire going on out there."
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