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Net Neutrality

Comcast is threatening to block Netflix from delivering streaming movies to their own broadband customers.

Without strong net neutrality rules, companies like Comcast can demand fees from innovative companies like Netflix in an attempt to choke consumer freedom and coerce users to adopt its own video services instead.

There is only one Internet, and consumers should be allowed to access any legal website, service or application on any device of their choosing (whether they're accessing the Internet wirelessly or not). Furthermore, broadband providers cannot be allowed to employ paid prioritization schemes to give favored network access to some websites or services over others.

This is about more than getting movies via Netflix instead of Comcast. It's about the ability of media monopolies to decide what information we can access via the Internet. Will Fox News stories be carried in the fast lane while other legitimate news networks are relegated to slow lane or perhaps blocked altogether? Censorship does not belong in this country!

Go to http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/comcast_netflix/

and sign a petition telling the FCC to keep our internet free.

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