0f0003 | maschinenkunst on Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:51:14 +0200 (CEST) |
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[Nettime-ro] \\ haidi bre - avanseaza!!! lasa carul + caruta si suite colea in poala demokratiei. It's utterly spiffing!! |
so long as we aren't all prostitutes tot mai e loc de avans 'sa ca. nu te lasa - male prostitution = dze future!! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> To: "Politech" <politech@politechbot.com> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 7:45 PM Subject: [Politech] eBay raises the stakes on Net neutrality with e-mailcampaign [econ] > > Forwarded message: > > As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a > request to get involved in a debate in the U.S. Congress. However, > today I feel I must. > > Right now, the telephone and cable companies in control of Internet > access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to > dramatically change the Internet. It might be hard to believe, but > lawmakers in Washington are seriously debating whether consumers > should be free to use the Internet as they want in the future. > > The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all > Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of > dollars to promote legislation that would divide the Internet into a > two-tiered system. > > The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road > restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high > fees for preferential access to the Net. > > The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for > everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," > the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road. > > Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, > services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two > lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small > companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will > be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and > inspiration that come with them. > > The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable > companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible > to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking > here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress > before it is too late. You can make the difference. > > Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard > today. > > Sincerely, > > Meg Whitman President and CEO eBay Inc. > > P.S. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact us > at government_relations@ebay.com. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Politech mailing list > Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ > Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >-------- > Orange vous informe que cet e-mail a ete controle par l'anti-virus mail. > Aucun virus connu a ce jour par nos services n'a ete detecte. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Do you PPP? Get in on the booming business of Pre Paid Prostitutes [PPP] U.S. Star.com Launches the Sale of Prepaid Prostitutes Using the Cingular Network ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- _______________________________________________ Nettime-ro mailing list Nettime-ro@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ro --> arhiva: http://amsterdam.nettime.org/