[Libs-Or] ACTION: Ask your senators to vote “NO” on overturning net neutality order

[Diedre Conkling]

Ask your senators to vote “NO” on overturning net neutality
order<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/>
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http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/
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Posted on November 7,
2011<http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/>
by TWegner <http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/twegner/>|

This week (Nov. 7-11) the full U.S. Senate will vote on Senate Joint
Resolution 6, a bill to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s
(FCC) order passed to adopt “net neutrality.”

*Please call your Senators and ask them to vote “NO” on S.J. Res. 6.* You
may reach your Senators by calling the Capitol Switchboard at *202-224-3121.
* Your call sends a loud and clear message that libraries depend on an open
and nondiscriminatory Internet to provide our patrons, the public,
unfettered access to information.

Additional talking points:

• Voting no helps preserve the openness of the Internet which is essential
to our nation’s educational achievement, freedom of speech and economic
growth.
• Without an open and neutral Internet, there is great risk that commercial
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will give higher priority to some users
(e.g. give entertainment priority over education).
• ISPs may seek to impose additional fees on Internet users which could
drastically impact libraries who require much greater bandwidth than
households to serve their patrons, many at one time.

This anti-net neutrality resolution, if passed, would strike at the heart
of libraries’ ability to ensure patrons have open, unfettered access to all
types of information.

Additional information, including links to the letter the ALA sent to
Senate leadership, is available
here<http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/telecom/netneutrality/legislativeactivity/index.cfm>
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http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/telecom/netneutrality/legislativeactivity/index.cfm
)

To find out who you senator is, click
here<http://capwiz.com/ala/callalert/index.tt?alertid=56104506&PROCESS=Call+Now>
(http://capwiz.com/ala/callalert/index.tt?alertid=56104506&PROCESS=Call+Now)

http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/



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*Diedre Conkling**
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR 97365
Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066
Work email**: **diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org*<diedre at lincolncolibrarydist.org>
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Home email: **diedre08 at gmail.com* <diedre08 at gmail.com>

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