I Like Eric Schmidt More Every Day!

This is truly serious business folks! Come on – you have just got to realize that your opportunities to make money on the Internet as we know it today are about to blow up in our collective faces and Eric Schmidt from Google is doing everything he can to avoid that!

Eric had the nerve (audacity, balls, whatever) to stand in front of the Progress and Freedom Foundation Tuesday night and tell them;

“The Internet has created this remarkable set of free markets, open competition and competitive growth. … We need to keep it free and open, If it goes the other way, we have got a serious problem, because this thing is really phenomenal.”

Save The Internet and T Karr add;

Schmidt listed four “calls to action” for the future of the Internet:

* Defending freedom of speech;
* Promoting universal broadband access;
* Protecting Net Neutrality; and
* Pushing for government transparency

These four principles are not just critical to a better Internet, Schmidt said, but are the “basic principles” driving the great American experiment.

Please, pay attention to what Karr says towards the end of his post;

“AT&T and Verizon’s whole business model has been built upon a type of content control that’s anathema to the free flowing Internet. They stand in opposition to efforts to empower people to make their own decisions and to protect their privacy in doing so.

Such gatekeeping takes away the most basic and crucial tenet of the Internet — our freedom to connect online to a Web site of our choosing. It also tips the Web’s even playing field to favor larger corporations, while handicapping the Internet’s true innovators: outsiders and startups who can’t afford to buy in to the network provider’s protection racket.”

This is real folks… really real! We’re going to lose control of and lose the opportunity from, the Internet as we know it and enjoy it if these Telcos are allowed to have it their way! Get involved! Post it on your Blog! Or regret it forever…