posted on May 30, 2006 06:23:37 AM new
I can top that....I just received an e-mail notification that I won $1.5 million in a foreign lottery than I never entered. "Your e-mail address was chosen from a list of 500,000 e-mail addresses...." blah blah blah. Oh, goodie. Now I can end all my eBay listings and tell Meg and company to go pound sand!
posted on May 30, 2006 04:46:38 PM new
MEg is getting political. As far as I am concerned this email was SPAM.
Net Neutrality and the eBay Community: A Call to Action
Dear ebay user,
As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a debate in the U.S. Congress. However, today I feel I must.
Right now, the telephone and cable companies in control of Internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the Internet. It might be hard to believe, but lawmakers in Washington are seriously debating whether consumers should be free to use the Internet as they want in the future.
The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.
The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.
The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.
Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.
The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late. You can make the difference.
Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard today.
Sincerely,
Meg Whitman
President and CEO
eBay Inc.
P.S. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact us at [email protected].
posted on May 30, 2006 04:54:59 PM new
Hey LtRay ... I just got that from "Meg" too. ... I can't believe it's not phish? ... you think it really came from her????
posted on May 31, 2006 09:44:58 AM new
I got the email from Meg also. No need though, I have already contacted everyone I can think of in office about this topic. Everyone here should be very, very concerned about this. It will be the downfall of the internet as we know it if it happens. I stopped watching ALL major brodcast television networks shortly after the FCC deregulated Radio and TV, programming went down the tubes and everything became so biased. The same will be said about the internet if they start to over regulate the internet and give all the power to a few super power companies. What you get now for free or just a couple of bucks a month for connection fee's has the possibility of costing you some major bucks shortly if this goes through. For once I have to agree with Meg and ebay. If you value your ebay business you should be very concerned about this.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein