In America at the moment, there is legislation being debated which threatens the free and easy movement of traffic on the internet. And, in typical fashion, what's starting over there, is now coming over here.
see
 http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1810786,00.html
and
 http://www.savetheinternet.com
for details.

The big telecoms and media are pushing for a two tier system - what this will mean is you can either have a dreadful slow service or you will have to pay - over and above your dial up / broadband charges - to send emails, post to blogs etc. Sites would be either painfully slow or prohibitively expensive to operate under such a system.

There is no good reason for this to happen. If it's costing the telecoms too much to operate, they could raise their charges a little which would balance out across net users.
But the scheme being proposed will favour business traffic over personal and slow down small sites and groups to a virtual standstill.

There is a huge campaign in the USA over this but the thing is just kicking off over here.
It's too important to ignore, so I decided to start a campaign to try and stop this.
I would very much appreciate it if you would publicise the petition site.

 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/netneutral/

thank you all

Clare