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Strange Bedfellows Unite to Save the Internet

Diverse coalition launches national campaign to stop Congress from gutting Network Neutrality -- the First Amendment of the Internet

WASHINGTON -- April 24, 2006 -- The SavetheInternet.com Coalition today launched a campaign to defend the free and open Internet from a bill being voted on in the House of Representatives beginning this week.

Congress is currently rewriting our nation's telecom laws. The SavetheInternet.com Coalition will mobilize public pressure to force Congress to resist a multimillion dollar lobbying effort by Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet's First Amendment.

"Network neutrality is the First Amendment of the Internet," said Timothy Karr, campaign director of Free Press. "It ensures that the public can view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site by preventing companies like AT&T from rigging the playing field for only the highest-paying sites and services. Net neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online — and the public demands Congress not dismantle it."

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