They're at it again

Open letter to:

Senator John Warner
Representative Jim Moran
Senator George Allen

One of the few things in our society that is a level playing field for everyone is endangered by greedy corporations who want to inhibit innovation and the egalitarian way in which the internet functions. It is a direct attack against entrepreneurs and the free dissemination of speech and news. The phone and cable companies already have a monopoly on the access to the internet via modem and broadband, and now they want more. In some ways this boils down to a free speech issue. Without access to the "fast lane" the small business, the citizen journalist and the entrepreneurs who have made the internet a thriving tool for prosperity for all of us will be penalized and relegated to a backwater of society. It will squash innovation and stifle the voice of the common man. Is this the kind of society that you think is worth voting for? I hope not, and I will keep this in mind in both the mid-term elections this year and the larger elections coming in 2008.