So the President comes out strongly for Net Neutrality and the silence is deafening.

[TBF]

106. We're waiting to see what he

actually DOES as opposed to what he just says - we also know he is in favor of TPP which brings up some questions.

Here is an article from earlier this year to bring you up to speed on why we have concerns:


Say What? The End of Net Neutrality and a Globalization Treaty Threaten Minority Speech
by Sean Howell and Peter Ian Cummings • 13 February 2014


Few could argue that the Internet hasn’t revolutionized gay life. A generation came out on the web, and the freedom to launch a website adhering to one’s own standards of quality and authenticity has always gone along with that. That’s what both of us did, creating the social networks XY.com and Hornet. (In fact, equal Internet access may be how you found this article, and the Humanist for that matter.)

All this freedom could be coming to an end, unless the Federal Trade Commission and the Obama administration strongly change course to defend free speech. Otherwise, independent voices on the Internet could soon be entirely replaced by corporate websites or wealthy subsidiaries of AOL, Amazon, and Facebook; or silenced altogether.

Absent strong government response, a cocktail of two repressive policy changes could push controversial sites off the Internet. The first is the loss of net neutrality.

In January the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in Verizon v. FCC, struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order, which had required Internet service providers (ISPs) to carry all traffic, and carry it at the same speed, without extra charge to the provider. For example, under the stricken rule, TheHumanist.com would be delivered at the same speed as a well-funded site like the AOL-owned Huffington Post ...

More here: http://thehumanist.com/magazine/march-april-2014/up-front/say-what