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A few weeks or so ago, I sent a letter to my local elected Representative in the House, David Dreier (Republican — what a surprise) urging him strongly to support Network Neutrality.
Yesterday, he voted against Network Neutrality in the House, participating willingly in the passing of a telecommunications bill which would take Neutrality away, and put discretionary power over their customers in the hands of huge companies like AT&T.
I sent him a little email, which reads as follows:
On Thursday, June 8, instead of complying with the wishes of those whom you ostensibly represent, you voted for a telecommunications law which could remove American citizens’ rights to Network Neutrality. I had sent you a letter strongly urging you to support Network Neutrality. You chose to ignore me.
Instead of supporting the individual American citizen, you decided it would be better to give enormous corporations the right and power to dictate whether or not their customers will be subjected to a tiered system or some other method of censorship whereby they dictate or affect free access to information through the Internet.
As my alleged representative in the House, I am insulted that you decided to vote in a manner opposed to my strongly-voiced recommendations, and outraged that you decided the needs of huge telecommunications corporations were more valuable than the needs of the individual American citizen.
Prick. I love living in America in a time when the Republicans are doing everything they can to reduce this country to a pile of ashes and cinder, and the Democrats quail in the corner wondering where their fucking bollocks are.