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Petition update, 01 October 2009

More details from petition creator

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet. The Internet has operated according to this neutrality principle since its conception. It is this neutrality that has allowed many companies to grow and innovate. Net neutrality is about equal access to the Internet for all. Broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content. Just as telephone companies are not permitted to tell consumers who they can call or what they can say, broadband carriers should not be allowed to use their market power to control activity online. The neutrality of the Internet is at stake as the broadband carriers such as Virgin Media attempt to control what content gets to you first and fastest. Put simply, this would alter the fundamental openness of the Internet and undermine the principles that have made the Internet the success it is today.

Current signatories

Christopher Ferguson, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Adrian Godfrey
• Tracey
• John Talbot
• Loz Pycock
• Mark Taylor
• Richard Smith
• Craig Mackay
• katie cook
• Daniel Maffey
• Gareth Blake
• Richard Craddock
• Richard Rune
• robert shovelton
• Alex Comyn
• Gabriel Jones
• Greg-Lloyd Wood
• John David Wood
• Marta Wanda Wood
• Gemma Louise Hewitt
• Thomas Knowles
• Matthew Robertson
• Charlotte Collins
• Howard Phillips
• Catherine Anne Hawes
• James Scullion
• Alex M Thomas
• Richard Shaw
• Damion Burbridge
• louise
• David Lock
• Dachi Rasmussen
• Ryan Williams
• Scott Sanders
• Simon Drew
• michael lucas
• Martin Brunton
• Giles Drinkwater
• James Swindle
• Adrian George Kemble
• Rebecca Fawcett
• Shaheena Rajabali
• Emma Matthews
• Danny de Reybekill
• Anna Selig
• Melanie Wellsmith
• Charlotte Smart
• Suzanne Wells
• Mohammad Bilal
• Adam Chatfield
• Samuel James Morgan
• Jennifer Du Randt
• Michael Burnett
• Nazakat Hussain
• Thomas Lawrence
• Ryan Pepper
• Simon Jones
• Stuart McKears
• Sarah Cornall
• Nat Queen
• Donald Gordon
• Alastair Hill
• Dick King
• S King
• Jeff
• Matt Coote
• Timmmmy
• Christophe Cheval
• Alex Craddock
• Peter Wieland
• Richard Shaw
• frances collins
• lelia maffey
• Martin Archer
• Caroline Brangan
• Cari Brangan
• Chaz Brangan
• Ceri Michael James
• Joanne Elizabeth Leddy
• Sophie Choman
• 8313 Kelly
• Reanimagic
• BBinder
• Hingman Pang
• Chris Wood
• Andrew Poole
• E. J. Iles
• david forrest
• Richard Smith
• Joanne Edwards
• Lisa Yates
• Tom Bushby
• Oliver Cook
• J RICHARDS
• Bill Appleton
• Luke Mee
• Martin Kimber
• Robert Cockayne
• Joshua Hennessy
• Michael Connolly
• Thomas Askem
• Nathan Wilson
• Tom Foley
• Jon Freeman
• Josh Holland
• Ariosona
• Khalil Jauffur
• Samuel M Thorpe
• Simon Millest
• Charlie Ainscough
• Christopher Hubley
• Martin Hoyland
• Stephen Hobbs
• Daniel Hobbs
• Sam Smith
• Ian Youngs
• Tom Meech
• Charlotte Hoole
• Sophie Oakley
• haydn john latham
• Claire Rintoul
• Adam Hayter
• Liam Lancaster
• James Brundell
• Avner Kluger
• David Pollard
• Martin Guy
• Robert Whittaker
• Elaine Carr
• Derek Williams
• Stephen Roberts
• Christian Howard
• Bryan Robertson
• Kendrick Curtis
• Kara-Marie Cleaver
• William Stevenson
• Simon Waddington
• Hamish Jefford
• Jason Gosling
• Johanna
• Andrew
• C Driver
• justine almutair
• Ross Brierley
• Simon Dudley
• William Moore
• Mark Robinson
• Gavin Dold
• Antony Bastiani
• Emma Furby
• Andrew Main
• mark robinson
• Matt Jones
• Derek Furby
• Mr P Taylor
• P. Cramond
• Stephen Hadley
• M.Height
• Hugh Mouser
• David Bishop
• Christopher Kong
• Stephen Betts
• William Marshall
• Simon Cleal
• Luke McCollum
• Anthony Parkes
• Gareth Latty
• Andrew Partington
• Carl finnerty
• Steve Robertson
• Russell Holliss
• mark hannan
• Paul Thompson
• Daniel Fairbairn
• Alistair Simpson
• Gareth Martin
• colin craig
• Chris Eldridge
• David Heap
• Sai To
• Simon Loach
• Gary Pender
• Derek Scott
• Daniel Burrell
• James Nestoruk
• James Harrison
• Alexander Stott
• joe oetting
• Andrew Revill
• Paul Jones
• Tim Jones
• anne-marie francis
• Craig Hennessey
• James
• Adam Miszewski
• Kelly Smith
• Graeme Sutherland
• Dave Bucknall
• john egan
• Clea F. Rees
• Philip Skinner
• Richard Carling
• Kevin Timberlake
• Timothy Berry
• Vijay Chopra
• Aaron Jacobs
• Jack Donaghy
• Harry Farmer
• Corin Cole
• R. Parrott
• Marianne Ibbotson
• Jason Webb
• Nigel Coe
• A J Merrell
• A Ward
• Ramy Pio
• John Annan
• Paul Britton
• Zach Bartram
• Thomas Wiggins
• Paul Mooney
• Alan Hume
• martyn davies
• jade anson
• Philip Cronin
• D Bucknall
• Martin James
• Thomas Park-Poulson
• Yves
• Adam Cadman
• W Kirkwood
• Ben Shaw
• Steve Dennis
• Liam Healy
• Adam Baxter
• Michael Mulqueen
• Kareece Peters
• Clare Sainsbury
• Stephen Crocker
• James Hegarty
• Edward Jones
• Karl
• Ali Raheem
• Nicholas Shaw
• Myles Fullen
• Alistair Gunn
• antony phipps
• Henry Hoffman
• Andrew David Scarle
• Anthony Gorman
• Jason Honeywood
• Peter Ritchie
• M. Gardner
• Adam Abbott
• Paul McGaff
• Ian Pinkney
• David Truman
• Kamran Iqbal
• Peter Grant
• Robert Thomson
• Thomas Blyth
• Robbie Dyer
• Neil Francis
• Adam Wallace
• Mike Cherrignton
• Robert Harrison
• Sophia Fragapane
• Sam Heaton
• Matt Hewitt
• daniel arce
• Artur Nutley
• Simon Orr
• samantha lavene
• lynn belton
• Shaun Andrew Allen
• Karin Wilhelmina Nymark
• Ricky Chandler
• david moran
• anne hood
• Allan Prosser
• Mike Ashman
• daniel james mouland
• Dan Mason
• nicola collinson
• Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
• Daniel Bamford
• Jon Thompson
• James Stewart
• Ricky Weston
• Steven Spiller
• Chris Scutcher
• howard price
• Richard Chambers
• Joanna Handy
• Neil Bryson
• Alexandra Jane Becker
• Will Jenkins
• Fraser Dunn
• James Douglas
• Michael Sadowski
• Jeremy Slawson
• M A Gula
• Andrew Hepburn
• john martin
• Phil Bentley
• Khushil Dep
• nicola
• David Precious
• tracy bailes
• Anna Dearnley
• Sean Micklethwaite
• Ames Chudasama
• Edward Jones
• Peter Maxwell
• Dafydd Evans
• Tom Tamplin
• Matthew Walmsley
• Gerard Rickett
• Will Major
• robert grout
• Gary Devey
• Jennifer Harper
• nicholas shearer
• PETER HOWARD
• James Baker
• Julian Hawksworth
• Frederick Williams