<h2 class="entry-title"><a title="Permalink to Ask your senators to vote “NO” on overturning net neutality order" href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/" rel="bookmark">Ask your senators to vote “NO” on overturning net neutality order</a></h2>
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<div class="entry-meta"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a title="3:29 pm" href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/2011/11/ask-your-senators-to-vote-no-on-overturning-net-neutality-order/" rel="bookmark"><span class="entry-date">November 7, 2011</span></a> <span class="byline"><span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" title="View all posts by TWegner" href="http://www.districtdispatch.org/author/twegner/">TWegner</a></span></span><span class="comments-link"><span class="meta-sep">|</span></span></div>
<div class="entry-content"><p>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.”</p>
<p><strong>Please call your Senators and ask them to vote “NO” on S.J. Res. 6.</strong> You may reach your Senators by calling the Capitol Switchboard at <strong>202-224-3121.</strong> 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.</p>
<p>Additional talking points:</p><p>• Voting no helps preserve the openness of the Internet which is essential to our nation’s educational achievement, freedom of speech and economic growth.<br>• 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).<br>
• 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.</p><p>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.</p>
<p>Additional information, including links to the letter the ALA sent to Senate leadership, is available <a href="http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/telecom/netneutrality/legislativeactivity/index.cfm" target="_blank">here</a> (<a href="http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/telecom/netneutrality/legislativeactivity/index.cfm">http://ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/telecom/netneutrality/legislativeactivity/index.cfm</a>)</p>
<p>To find out who you senator is, click <a href="http://capwiz.com/ala/callalert/index.tt?alertid=56104506&PROCESS=Call+Now" target="_blank">here</a> (<a href="http://capwiz.com/ala/callalert/index.tt?alertid=56104506&PROCESS=Call+Now">http://capwiz.com/ala/callalert/index.tt?alertid=56104506&PROCESS=Call+Now</a>)<br clear="all">
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<p> </p><p>-------------------------<br></p></div><div><em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt;">Diedre Conkling</span></em><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt;"><br>
<em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Lincoln County Library District</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">P.O. Box 2027</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Newport, OR 97365</span></em><br>
<em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Phone & Fax: 541-265-3066</span></em><br><em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Work email</span></em></span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal;">: </span></em><a href="mailto:diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt;"><font color="#0000ff">diedre@lincolncolibrarydist.org</font></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 10pt;"><br>
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