Save our Environment, Save the Net

By Frank J. Regan 

Act now to continue to get complete and unbiased environmental information - If you don't know about this developing issue on the Internet, Net Neutrality, it might seem at first like some obscure plea for your hard earned dollars. It's not. It's not about a donation and it's not about an obscure issue that will have little effect on your life. It's about your freedom to use the Internet as you wish: to start a business, communicate to whomever and however you want, to say and be heard by whatever audience you can make yourself heard. Those who took away the ordinary individual’s ability to send over the radio and television are now trying to take charge over those who can freely use the Internet.

This concern is especially important as the Internet becomes the medium of choice for entrepreneurs and how the public receives information for future—and as most of the other media mediums blend into the Internet with the fantastic bandwidth of fiber optics. If you are truly concerned about your fundamental right to chose who you communicate to and from, learn about Net Neutrality and connect with those hoping to preserve the freedom of the net.

As environmental issues pile up in these extraordinary times, it is more important than every that you have the opportunity to listen to as many voices as possible on the environmental issues we face and possible solutions to those problems. Not a corporate giant who interests might, in their opinion, be in jeopardy. In my opinion, the only way you’ve been able to get continual and comprehensive information on the state of our environment in the past several years is through the Internet because only environmental groups and small dedicated informational services have had the insight and tenacity and freedom to pursue the information we need most: that which accurately and continually informs us on the state of our environment.

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