FCC Seals $86B AT&T-BellSouth Merger

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/29/news/compa…dex.htm?cnn=yes

"FCC seals $86B AT&T-BellSouth merger

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The No. 1 telecommunications company's commitments included a promise to maintain net neutrality for at least 30 months…"

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After which (one can safely assume), "net neutrality" goes right out the window unless we all get busy and go here: https://secure.aclu.org/site/Advocacy?id=535 to make sure that S. 2917, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act, gets passed.

Given AT&T's penchant for simply handing over massive quantities of personal data to the government whenever asked - and looking at that shiny new "privacy policy" of theirs ( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?…BUG9VJHB9C1.DTL ) - I simply see nothing good coming of this merger, privacy-wise. Pete

*ACLU link is dead - use this one instead: http://action.freepress.net/campaign/savethenet and copy/paste the following comment into the field given: "I urge you to IMMEDIATELY press for passage of S. 2917, the Internet Freedom Preservation Act sponsored by by Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan."