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Telecoms companies are frustrated that they’re missing out the money pie of the Internet. So they want to put “tolls” and divide the traffic into Fast and Slow lanes.

Currently, your Internet provider does not voluntarily censor the
Web as it enters your home. This levels the playing field between the
tiniest blog and the most popular Web site.

Yet the big telecom companies want to alter this dynamic. AT&T and Verizon have publicly discussed their plans to divide the information superhighway
into separate fast and slow lanes. Web sites and services willing to
pay a toll will be channeled through the fast lane, while all others
will be bottled up in the slower lanes. COPE, and similar telecom
legislation offered in the Senate, does nothing to protect the consumer
from this transformation of the Internet.

How would this affect you? Maybe this will affect VRS speed? Maybe we’ll have to fork over more money to get higher speed to use VRS? The Internet today is more than just websurfing.

How about IM? Think the time lag is bad enough? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

How about the fact that the broadband speed in the USA is already far behind Europe and Asia? So now USA is not only a laughingstock, but the slow broadband speed is already having financial impact as well. Faster speed means faster way to make money, etc. In other words, try comparing making money using dial-up speed vs. broadband speed.

I would love to see other deaf bloggers research on this. This bill will have a much greater impact on the deaf community than the Gally protests.

I can’t say much about this because I have no Gally connection, and just let others to the writing. Kokonut Pundits has the best roundup and scoops.

However, this pretty much says it all: “Deaf kids protest school president for being inauthentically deaf”

Calling College students “kids” is exactly right.

And love what a writer named “Allah” wrote:  “They threw Oreos at Michael Steele for being inauthentically black. What do you throw at someone who’s inauthentically deaf? Headphones?”

And note to E. Lynn Jacobowitz: YOU don’t speak for me!