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Anti-net neutrality campaign viral

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Jul 21, 20062 mins

Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition.org, who faced-off against Craigslist founder Craig Newmark on NPR last month over net neutrality, wrote to tell us: “We thought the time was ripe to produce another flash video on net neutrality, because they are such a fun and effective way to communicate what is really going on in this net neutrality debate.”

His jab comes at the same time that net neutrality advocates are stepping up their pressure on lawmakers.

Cleland says of his group’s video, A Royal Fable:

When the dominant online giants: Google, Microsoft, eBay, Yahoo, Amazon, and IAC, first funded and named “Itsournet.org,” their pro-net neutrality lobbying coalition, we needled them here for their “Freudian Slip” in claiming they “owned” the Internet. We suggested to them that it might be more forthright and neutral to “share” ownership of the Internet with the rest of America and rename their coalition: itseveryonesnet.org. Alas they did not take our advice.

Thus, we thought their elitist sense of Internet ownership and entitlement was worthy of a new flash video.

Clelland says Netcompetition’s first flash video has been seen over 2500 times on youtube.com.

There must be some pro-net neutrality videos out there to counter this viral campaign. Be the vector and send us youtube.com or other links.

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Mike Barton started out in online slinging HTML for CNET.com in the late 1990s and began his editorial career at New Media magazine shortly thereafter. In his early days, he was an editor at Ziff-Davis's PC Computing and ZDNet.com before heading Down Under, where he produced and edited the business and technology sections of The Sydney Morning Herald online. After returning to the States in 2006, he has worked for IDG's Infoworld, PCWorld, Computerworld, and CSO Online. He currently edits and produces WIRED.com's Innovation Insights, and is a contributing editor at ITworld.

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