There's a interesting editorial that I came across today about how there's a new bill in the US Congress that could change the current equality web sites share in speed and how companies may be given control of this speed. A bill that would give more control to the telecom companies. And I am extremely concerned by this information, and the fact that this information is not in the media. I tried a basic search on Google News (4500 journals) and I was only able to find FOUR articles about this extremely important issue.

This bill could eventually lead to a situation where telecom companies would charge websites fees in order to give fast access to these websites. This could therefore lead to a massive discrimination among websites, where those who have the money to pay this fee, would be served, and it would destroy the equality we have cherished.

I feel almost powerless, but I have trust in fellow bloggers and the online community to bring this issue to the worlds attention! I encourage you to read about this issue on the following websites, and to post this in your blogs! We need to make sure the public knows about this! Especially internet users and bloggers that benefit from this net equality!

Here are some editorials/articles talking about it

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/08/1352255

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.internet09may09,0,4559120.story

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6332676.html?display=Breaking+News

http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/05/1821761.php

There is some good news:
There are some politicians who have proposed bills that would help protect net neutrality. Congressman Ed Merkley has proposed this:
http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1515&Itemid=138