I have been seeing a lot around the ’sphere about the Save The Internet campaign. I had heard a little about it the other day but didn’t really pay it much attention and actually I thought it was kind of cheesy. But the more I read about it, the more concerned I get and eventually decided to sign the petition myself.
I first started reading more about what was going on at the Performancing blog. Aparrently AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress to allow sites to pay them more for their website to come up at the top of search lists and open faster and easier. Any site that doesn’t pay them will load slower. As an independent website owner, this would basically cause my site to disappear. It would still be there physically, but good luck finding it and getting it to load.
A great article that sums up what is going on can be found at CopyBlogger. I hope more people will respond to this. To see the latest standings in congress you can visit SaveTheInternet.
With all the attention this is now getting, if this passes, many people and companies will suffer from it, but I think a new Internet would emerge eventually. There is no way that those big companies could keep everyone quiet. New companies would emerge providing their own network access, and eventually everyone would migrate there for freedom of access.