"Internet activists."

Editor,

"Internet activists" are taken for granted now, an assumed fixture on the American political landscape. But the information lifeline upon which the truth now circulates from Oakland to Madison to Chapel Hill is owned and operated by a handful of giant corporations, in particular AT&T and Comcast, whose mission -- monopoly -- requires that Americans be distracted and misinformed with intellectual, historical, and philosophical garbage.

The U.S. Senate, bought and paid for by the multinational corporations, is the last hurdle the telcos need to clear before they can pull the plug with confidence on the free flow of information in this country via the Internet. Is the American press complicit in the dumbing of the American body politic? Or will you stand and defend net neutrality as the last hope for democracy and social justice in the United States?