Drew Wilson
October 20th, 2009, 09:05 PM
AT&T's top lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, sent a letter to all of the telecom giant's 300,000 employees on Sunday, urging them to express their concerns over a net neutrality proposal under consideration by the Federal Communications Commission. Check out his letter and comments on the Actuarian Outpost Web site.
The letter was the latest move in a lobbying frenzy days before the FCC votes on a proposal to create new net neutrality regulations. High-tech giants wrote to the agency to support the rules, while dozens of lawmakers from both parties have protested the rules as potentially dangerout to economic growth.
"We encourage you, your family and friends to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet," Cicconi wrote in his letter. The company verified the letter.
Cicconi explained how employees could use a personal e-mail account to post comments on the FCC's net neutrality Web site to about the rules. He said the comment period had been extended until Thursday, when the agency's five commissioners are scheduled to vote on a proposal that would begin the formalization of rules.
More... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/10/att_lobbyist_asks_employees_th.html)
Stop net neutrality. If net neutrality goes ahead, the economy will collapse, the internet infrastructure will fry, users will be disconnected, chaos will ensue on people's computers, ocean waters will rise, plagues will spread, everyone will be broke, droughts will go on forever, the polar ice caps will melt, the sun will explode (http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=4713245&l=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/10/17/11435656-ap.html), and some people will even experience lower back pain!
So we need to exercise regularly and... uh... what were we talking about again?
The letter was the latest move in a lobbying frenzy days before the FCC votes on a proposal to create new net neutrality regulations. High-tech giants wrote to the agency to support the rules, while dozens of lawmakers from both parties have protested the rules as potentially dangerout to economic growth.
"We encourage you, your family and friends to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet," Cicconi wrote in his letter. The company verified the letter.
Cicconi explained how employees could use a personal e-mail account to post comments on the FCC's net neutrality Web site to about the rules. He said the comment period had been extended until Thursday, when the agency's five commissioners are scheduled to vote on a proposal that would begin the formalization of rules.
More... (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/10/att_lobbyist_asks_employees_th.html)
Stop net neutrality. If net neutrality goes ahead, the economy will collapse, the internet infrastructure will fry, users will be disconnected, chaos will ensue on people's computers, ocean waters will rise, plagues will spread, everyone will be broke, droughts will go on forever, the polar ice caps will melt, the sun will explode (http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=4713245&l=http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/10/17/11435656-ap.html), and some people will even experience lower back pain!
So we need to exercise regularly and... uh... what were we talking about again?