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Anonymous
What YOU can do:
Write your ISP and explain to them that the internet is the medium of the future and the information superhighway. Limiting its use will not only stymie progress, it will allow the wealthy to hold the power because they have more access to knowledge and to privilege. Tell them that for decades that television has been a flat rate, regardless of consumption, as it has been with telephone service. Radio has never been charged for use. All major progressions in human communication did not arise out of someone deciding that use should be a payed-for privilege, but with the idea that they are a right to every paying customer. Explain that in only a few years from now, five gigabytes of bandwidth will be as obsolete and pitiful as the floppy disk, especially with more and more people joining the online community, more internet storefronts opening up, more online entertainment sites being created, and more and more information being shared online. Explain that many students who need the internet for research, even online classes, cannot afford to pay for a premium service, and this limits their access to necessary information. Tell them that to pay for information is elitist and it promotes a wider gap between the rich and the poor. Threaten to switch to a service that does not charge for the amount of bandwidth used.
Send this in the mail to the CEO of your ISP, do NOT disclose your name or address, just say you are a satisfied but concerned customer. If enough of us do this, they should bend.
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