[Sustain] Urgent: Tell Google: Don't Be Evil - Verizon Deal Would Destroy Open Internet

[Eric Brooks]

    SavetheInternet.com 
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=roZtsN2wByQjnRb7vXLLCw..>
Google: Don't Be Evil 
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=6J8I1Oe-ZLkmkfpa2AQw6A..>

Tell Google: Don't Be Evil 
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=vvT33zFZiyq3DUeL3oRxGA..>


Google is about to cut a deal with Verizon that would end the Internet 
as we know it.

According to a front-page /New York Times/ story, the deal allows 
"Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if 
the content's creators are willing to pay for the privilege."

It would create fast Internet lanes for the largest corporations and 
slow lanes for the rest of us.

That's why we're starting a mass protest by Google users to stop these 
two companies from joining forces to sell out millions of people like us 
who use the Internet.

*If Millions Join Our Call, We Can Stop this Deal: Tell Google, "Don't 
Be Evil"* <http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=htp_bfAtoRWYEGZDdflNfA..>

Google's motto is supposed to be "Don't Be Evil." But this deal puts the 
company in bed with the devil.

 From the beginning, the Internet has been a level playing field that 
allows everyone to connect to one another and the world of content 
available online -- whether it's ABC News or your cousin's wedding 
video. There's only one Internet, and it shouldn't matter who your 
provider is or whether you're logging on from home or your cell phone.

This deal will change all of that, allowing Google and Verizon to pick 
what websites you can see over others. The result couldn't be bleaker 
for the future of the Internet and for free speech and independent 
voices online.

Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin created Google to make information 
freely available to everyone online. But this deal is a complete 
reversal that abandons their core principles:

*Sign this letter and tell Google's founders:
"Your Verizon deal IS evil, and it must be stopped."* 
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=gQUSEFFV7GeJKc-C5PqJnA..>

It's up to the millions of people who use Google every day to tell the 
company to do the right thing.

Google must walk away from this bad deal, and make sure Internet users 
everywhere can enjoy the entire open Internet wherever, whenever and 
however they want.

Thank you for taking action,

Josh Silver
President
Free Press
www.freepress.net
www.savetheinternet.com

P.S. Google and Verizon don't make Internet policy. The FCC and Congress 
do. After you sign the letter, *tell our public officials to step in and 
protect the public interest* 
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=Z9xc_BfZ_W-PKPkojAhoJQ..> and not to be 
bullied by a few large corporations.

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