As an artist my blog and website are essential in reaching my on-line art students, in presenting my new paintings to clients and potential clients and in sharing ideas with fellow artists. Additionally two on-line artist cooperative sites are essential in offering prints for sale and in making my work seen by anyone from anywhere in the world who wishes to see it

The internet as a mode of free speech has been a breath of fresh air, an arena to voice opinions which are disallowed in day to day life. It has been a vent for a whole population who want to communicate, share ideas, locate like minds and transform a reactionary system. Making this medium proprietary would shut that creative medium off for control by the few with the most cash. That means the wasting away of creativity for domination. How similar to what Hitler did through genocide! In point of fact, we would be healthier and wealthier as a group, if the NET was a UTILITY- either for a base rate, or free for everyone. The companies who want to pig out on profits inch up their rates, *bundle* to pretend these are savings when you don't even want their pitiful program offerings, and in this country (U.S.), most communications corporations enforce long ridiculous contracts with concomitant penalties for leaving these *special* programs early. What a hoax. What a crock. What a sad enslavement for the benefit of the greedy. I say dethrone the dominators. Dignify the voice of the people.

I use the internet as a research tool for mostly all important items, such as medical info, purchasing info, contacts, research for knowledge, comunication to solving certain problems, and a host of other important things. I understand that the internet was practically built with taxpayers' money for the general public ... and the Goverment should not allow private companies to have major control of the system. This is not the right thing to do.... I am totally against this move.

A free internet allows people to find me and expand the growth of my business. It would damage my ability to grow and increase my business.

I need the Internet to find information on doctors and patient insurance plans daily. I also need to be able to have contact and research abilities for my acting career.

I'm an instructional coach, leading the professional learning of up to two dozen high school teachers each year. I rely on having free and easy access to individual blogs like Teacher Lust, Leadership 2.0, Choice Literacy. I need the Internet to remain neutral.

An open internet is one of the only things left that people can access freely and I do not want the Internet to be part of any monopoly. Please let your representatives and senators know to leave the internet as is, where everyone has a voice and the same opportunities.

My low-income college students already have difficulty being able to afford computers and Internet access which is critical to their college and life success. The Internet, like any other utility, should be regulated so that students have affordable, neutral access to ALL information on the web. Access to this information must not be not controlled by the interests of the business sector as this will skew students' ability to do the objective research critical to their academic success.

As a student, I use many sources on the internet for my homework. If I had to pay for content on my limited budget, it would impact my ability to access content and impact the quality of my work. Not only would it impact me, but thousands of other students and academic researchers too. The quality of education would suffer and our ability to be competitive with other countries would decline as well. Please do not let this happen!

I run a blog and a website. I am very much a tech amateur, but want to make available for discussion my ideas in an amusing, yet provocative way. I want others to be able to do the same. We MUST, in our small, many-voiced way, counter the nasty, soulless and greedy culture of "corporatocracy" that enslaves minds.

I have recovered from a debilitating, chronic illness called chronic fatigue syndrome because I was able to find other recovering people on the Internet who taught me how to take charge of my health. Big business would never do that. Big hearts and free speech did it through Internet access.

I work part-time for a non-profit for a senior program providing resources and information. If we allow Comcast and Verizon to move on and leave all of us behind, it would be devastating.