Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, of Erie.

This is almost impossible to believe - but it's actually true.

About a month ago, the Obama administration announced its intent to write policy that would protect, by law, the freedom that has allowed the Internet to grow and flourish.

It's no joke that such protection is needed. Repression of the Internet by the corporations that control it has already started.

Last month, Apple told a healthcare reform group that they wouldn't carry a healthcare reform app on their AT&T network for 30 million iPhones because it was "politically charged"...

...two years ago, it was Verizon refusing to transmit text messages from NARAL Pro-choice America.

On a regular basis, the FCC tries to relax the federal rules that have stood for 50 years to safeguard the diversity of voices whose expression make democracy possible. We didn't need to do this before radio, TV, and the internet, since you could make newspapers at home, but mass media changed all that. "Mass media" should be for the masses.

Here's the Common Cause email I got today...they are doing it again. PLEASE click on the link and send a letter/fax. This time, the FCC is not even designating what regulations they want to change.

http://www.commoncause.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&b=194...

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Dear Hannah,

The FCC is up to its old tricks again.

They want to set new media ownership rules without any public input -- just like they did in 2003. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) won't tell us exactly what the new rules would do, but every indication is that they'll let Big Media get even bigger.