This is not about Sorbs blocking innocent emails (extorting victoms), or static IPs.
We will not have to worry about Sorbs. If this action happens our internet will be controled by Corporations and will charge us tons of money just so we are allowed to have a server. Even if we buy static ips. Even if we are not banned by sorbs. Even if we are not blacklisted.
http://www.netfreedomnow.org/
Do not ban this url, or consider it spam because this is very important if we all want to continue to have our own server. I do not run this site but posted it because I run a server like you. I don't want my server to fall. I am sure you don't want your dslwebserver site to fall too. We can't let millions of websites fall because of these Isps.
This is a quote from that site:
What if …
AT&T and Verizon blocked you from viewing your favorite podcasts and blogs?
BellSouth cut off your net phone because you weren’t using their service?
Comcast forced you to download MP3s from their store while slowing other music sites?
This threat is more real than you might think. Right now, the major communications companies are planning to discriminate against the online content and services that they don’t yet control. (Learn more at Free Press)
Their executives are already on the record:
* AT&T’s Ed Whitacre wants consumers and content providers to pay for use of his network. “The Internet can’t be free … for a Google or Yahoo or Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes free is nuts.”
* BellSouth’s William Smith told reporters that he would like to turn the Internet into a “pay-for-performance marketplace” where his company could charge for the “right” to have certain services load faster than others.
* Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg says that Web applications need to “share the cost” of the broadband services already paid for by consumers. “We need to pay for the pipe.”
They want to boost profits by playing gatekeeper to the applications we use and the content we create. They want to give preferential treatment to their own high-end services while blocking or slowing access to everyone else’s.
STOP THEM NOW. Send your letter to the CEOs and Congress.
The Threat Is Real
This broadband assault would reduce your choices and stifle the spread of innovative and independent ideas that we’ve come to expect online. It would shift the digital revolution into reverse.
Internet gatekeepers have already:
* Blocked services: In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.
* Blocked content: In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.
If these media giants get their way, they’ll shut down the free flow of information and dictate how you use the Internet forever.
Legislation to kill Net freedom is being drafted right now in Congress. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
