May 27th is....

http://www.netneutralityrally.ca/

You might have heard about net neutrality. It's basically the existing setup of Internet being offerred by your service providers today. What they are attempting to do is throttle or shape the internet traffic, based on marketing revenues paid to them. Basically, if you're joe schmo and have a website like me, unless you dish out big bucks, people will never see your website. Obviously large marketing corporations don't have a problem with this, but mom and pop shops, activists, even forum discussion pages will not have appropriate access to them.

Lame. Right now the Internet is a free information market, the only reason to throttle it is for monetary purposes and generating extra revenue. And most importantly, it's a method to further control the media you have access to. Say YES to Net Neutrality. If you can, support the rally on Parliment Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 27th @ 11:30AM. There will be several political figures and activists speaking on the subject. If you can't make it, do what I did and sign the petition: http://www.canadians.org/action/2008/27-Mar-08.html

Here are a collection of Net Neutrality videos.

It's already happening, Virgin in UK and Bell in Canada have plans in action to make money off Internet users by RESTRICTING ACCESS TO THE INTERNET!! This was the first I heard about it, I'm not a big fan of Athene, but this issue is bigger than that. I believe everyone has the right to be visible on the Net. I went Koodo mobile instead of Virgin when it came time to go with a mobile company. Spread the word until they get the picture.