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Senator Obama discusses Senators Snowe and Dorgan’s legislation to protect network neutrality on the internet.

“It is because the Internet is a neutral platform that I can put out this podcast and transmit it over the Internet without having to go through any corporate media middleman. I can say what I want without censorship or without having to pay a special charge.

But the big telephone and cable companies want to change the Internet as we know it. They say that they want to create high speed lanes on the Internet and strike exclusive contractual agreements with Internet content providers for access to those high speed lanes.

Everyone who cannot pony up the cash will be relegated to the slow lanes.” Read More

• No Tolls on The Internet – Washington Post
• Foes unite in battle over net neutrality – CNN
• Save the Internet Coalition

More info: obama.senate.gov