FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Stop Google And Verizon From Setting Our Public Internet Policy

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: August 14, 2010 2:47:07 PM CDT
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion Group Discussion Group <hidisc [at] 
> humanistinstitute.org>
> 
> 
> This is a VERY important issue that is receiving too little attention. Our 
> humanist groups should be out front!
> 
> Bob
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: The Pen <activist.thepen [at] gmail.com>
>> Date: August 9, 2010 10:13:35 PM CDT
>> 
>> Subject: Stop Google And Verizon From Setting Our Public Internet Policy
>> 
>> 
>> Something stunningly outrageous happened this week, when Google and 
>> Verizon announced they had reached a "deal" for the future of the 
>> internet. Since when is it the place of special interest corporations 
>> to determine what public policy should be? 
>> 
>> Stop Google & Verizon action page: 
>> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1054.php 
>> 
>> Actually it has been going on in back rooms all along, a prime recent 
>> example being a health care bill written (the one that passed) 
>> substantially by Liz Fowler, a former Wellpoint executive, who is now 
>> apparently in line to also administrate the bill she wrote (another 
>> outrage). 
>> 
>> But never before has it been so brazen that two industry giants 
>> should publicly declare they have reached a private agreement, and to 
>> expect Congress and the President to just fall in line. 
>> 
>> They must not. Congress must reject this public carving up of the 
>> public interest and instead establish clear principles in law that 
>> industry giants must not be allowed to use their power to 
>> discriminate access to the internet of the future. 
>> 
>> Stop Google & Verizon action page: 
>> http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1054.php 
>> 
>> This is just another example of why corporations must be put back in 
>> their place. Corporations truly are NOT the people. Let them conduct 
>> their business, but under regulations that serve primarily the public 
>> interest. And they cannot be allowed to have inappropriate and 
>> harmful influence on the election of the very representatives duty 
>> bound to keep them so regulated. 
>> 
>> That is why we have the long term objective of a constitutional 
>> amendment soundly repudiating the Supreme Court's enshrinement of 
>> corporate speech rights as superior to all others, by virtue of their 
>> financial power. 
>> 
>> That is why we need your help now to distribute hundreds of thousands 
>> of "Corporations Are NOT The People" bumper stickers, and to spread 
>> the message movement any other way you can. We have already printed 
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>> who simply requests one. 
>> 
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>> 
>> Bulk Corporations Are Not The People bumper stickers: 
>> http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_bulk.php 
>> 
>> And you can always get one free for yourself with no donation 
>> required, if you have not requested yours already. 
>> 
>> And here is the Facebook link for the Stop Google and Verizon action 
>> page further above. 
>> 
>> [Facebook] Action Page: 
>> http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1054 
>> 
>> And this is the Twitter reply for this same action 
>> 
>> @cxs #p1054 
>> 
>> Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed 
>> to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible. 
>> 
>> If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at 
>> http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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