Tim Karr, Director of SavetheInternet.com wrote to me about a new bill introduced in Congress this week that would guarantee Net Neutrality by restoring it in the foundation of communications law. Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Chip Pickering (R-Miss.) introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act (HR 5353) to stop relentless corporate attempts to set up roadblocks on the information superhighway.

The new bill requires the FCC to actively protect the free-flowing Internet from gatekeepers, enforcing protections that “guard against unreasonable discriminatory favoritism for, or degradation of, content by network operators based upon its source, ownership, or destination on the Internet.”

I’ve written before about Net Neutrality:

• time to blog about Net Neutrality
• Help make Net Neutrality a law in 2007
• Blogger call tomorrow on internet blocking and Net Neutrality

It’s an issue I feel strongly about, and you should too. The success of the Internet is a direct result of its openness and lack of hierarchy and preferential treatment for any group of users. It needs to stay that way to continue reshaping how we interact. Click here for a quick form to contact your representatives in Congress and ask them to support HR5353.

SavetheInternet.com (which I’ve written about before) is hosting a call on Wednesday at 1PM ET/10AM PT to discuss action against Internet providers that violate Net Neutrality. According to investigations by the Associated Press and Electronic Frontier Foundation, Comcast [Read more]