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May 31, 2006
Meg Whitman to eBay members: Back net neutrality!
On Lawrence Lessing's blog today the venerable professor reports that eBay CEO Meg Whitman has exhorted eBay members to write their congresspeople in support of net neutrality legislation. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time any member of the Internet community has tried to use its own network to help its lobbying efforts...
Question is, will Google and others follow? Why not send a message to all of Google's beta-program users -- not a pitch, but perhaps just an informational message.
That's one way to combat the millions being spent by the telcos in a battle that they see as a war.
Posted by paul at May 31, 2006 11:14 AM
Comments
This is definitely a great idea. But the question is whether it is going to be accepted by the community.
Posted by: online auction at January 21, 2007 08:15 PM