Reject Trump’s plan for a corporate-controlled internet. OR LOSE INTERNET FREEDOM.

[Jude Iam]

Waccos, this world will be MUCH harder to CHANGE WITHOUT NET NEUTRALITY. SOS. PLEASE sign and pass, jude

I’ll keep this short because this is a RED ALERT.
Just minutes ago, Trump’s FCC chair publicly announced his plans to kill net neutrality, gutting the rules protecting a free and open internet that Demand Progress members fought so hard for.
It would be a green light for Comcast and Verizon to create the corporate-controlled internet their executives dream of at night.
Sign the petition: Hands off the internet! Reject Trump’s plan to end net neutrality.
This plan is a big, wet kiss to the corporate execs at Big Cable. No wonder that Trump’s FCC Chair is a former Verizon lawyer, Ajit Pai.
No net neutrality means Big Cable can demand companies and consumers pay shakedown fees for decent speeds – and push the rest of us into internet “slow lanes.”
And no net neutrality is a threat to freedom of speech online, allowing Big Cable to choose what content you see online and how easily you can access it. (That's even scarier when you remember that Big Cable funded Trump’s inauguration – bigly.)
Demand Progress members have fought hard to keep the internet free and open, helping drive the record 4 million public comments that got the FCC to issue the Open Internet rules in 2015. Now, we need to fight even harder.
Sign the petition to Congress and the FCC: Reject Trump’s plan for a corporate-controlled internet.
Pai has been busy meeting privately with corporate executives about his plan, but he doesn't seem quite so excited to talk to groups representing... actual ordinary people who rely on the internet.
Trump’s FCC chair may not want to hear how much people want to keep strong Title II net neutrality. So let’s make sure we create a grassroots outcry so loud he can’tignore it.
Sign now: Reject Trump’s plan to roll back strong net neutrality rules and hand the internet over to Comcast. Click here to sign the petition.
Thank you for speaking out,
Kurt and the team at Demand Progress

[Sara S]

Done! Signed!

[podfish]

Waccos, this world will be MUCH harder to CHANGE WITHOUT NET NEUTRALITY. SOS. PLEASE sign and pass, jude

I’ll keep this short because this is a RED ALERT.
Just minutes ago, Trump’s FCC chair publicly announced his plans to kill net neutrality, gutting the rules protecting a free and open internet that Demand Progress members fought so hard for.
It would be a green light for Comcast and Verizon to create the corporate-controlled internet their executives dream of at night.
Sign the petition: Hands off the internet! Reject Trump’s plan to end net neutrality.
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To be fair, the fight has big corporations on both sides - Google and Netflix, just to name two, benefit greatly from net neutrality.

So don't use resentment of big corporations as a motivator - deciding who's the good guys in this isn't as simple as being consistently anti-corporate. The threat to freedom is more subtle than that - but it's certainly possible in a Handmaid's Tale future. The potential that the providers might charge everyone with a website is real. How'd Barry like it if he had to pay to get Wacco onto Comcast's cable, even if Sonic might pass it through for free? There's no good reason to allow the internet to be un- or de-regulated in a way that might restrict access to it, and a lot of reasons why eliminating network neutrality is a really bad idea.

[Thad]

Back in 2014, when the FCC opened up comments on its net neutrality plans, people flocked to the site in droves, crashing it before eventually submitting almost 4 million comments. The reason? Most consumer and tech advocates believe net neutrality is a good thing.


Just like last time, you can comment on net neutrality using the FCC’s same old archaic and weird comments system, but this time it should have the back end to support a ton of traffic. This comment process will happen in two waves. Right now, you can comment on the draft proposal, which has lots of questions about how the final proposal should be worded. The second comment cycle will be about the official proposal, will begin after May 18 and will be open for three months. You should be able to comment on both. Here’s how to do it now:

LIfeHacker: How to Comment on the FCC's Proposal to Kill Net Neutrality

Waccos, this world will be MUCH harder to CHANGE WITHOUT NET NEUTRALITY. SOS. PLEASE sign and pass, jude