Hell-bent on destroying Net Neutrality [7-12] [Internet]

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Hell-bent on destroying Net Neutrality


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Chris,

Trump, his FCC chairman, and their corporate cronies are hell-bent on destroying the open internet.

On July 12, the internet will push back: Sign up here to join the fight. (http://act.freepress.net/signup/internet_nn_july_12/?t=4&akid=6461.9036884.Oigbza)

We’re teaming up with organizations and major companies like Amazon, Etsy, Kickstarter and reddit to push back against FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s dangerous proposal to destroy Net Neutrality. This national online day of action will be massive — but only if we get as many people as possible to participate.

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For over 10 years, people worked alongside public-interest organizations, civil rights groups, entrepreneurs and small-business owners to put Net Neutrality protections in place. In 2015, the fight for internet freedom ended in victory when the FCC reclassified broadband providers under Title II of the Communications Act, creating the legal foundation for real Net Neutrality.

But now the Trump administration, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the corporations backing them are doing all they can to reverse the historic Net Neutrality win.

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Donald Trump's new FCC Chair, Ajit Pai, wants to roll back Open Internet protections. Tell the Congress, we need Net Neutrality!


Chris,

As Internet activists (clicktivists), we exercise our freedom of speech over the free and open Internet. Our democracy relies on a free, fair, and Open internet. Every day, journalists, voters, and activists rely on the FCC's Net Neutrality protections to communicate freely online.

Net Neutrality is simply the principle that Internet providers must treat all web traffic equally. It's the only thing stopping companies like Comcast and Verizon from controlling what we can see and say online -- and from censoring or slowing down speech they don't like.

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But Chairman Ajit Pai, Donald Trump's newly appointed head of the Federal Communications Commission, has offered up grim warning s of what's in store for Net Neutrality under his leadership. But if enough of us speak out in its defense, we can stop Chairman Pai and defend Net Neutrality.

There are three actions that you can take in this email: Email your Senators and Representative (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHPFrk7xL-2BTtd3jncxjGIpIHXVyebcGjfialCtmp4Uvr6aTNPjU3REQrs6 p51prBXVBt2wyxmwdTUB1DJ3-2BpLeEcN6YzTmhsczG36TvZts9fWztub8IRDRXa2JfqPD-2FQ5Ibgv9hj5HAmBEP0griS5FR0X1jQrgAIpY8vNdPwwfTkhf-2FO9SpPPyg9nyKgHZW9pStXV3O30e1Utfbt20BQOCuwI3VKaWd eqSqSzqrx-2Fo3QMoo4XcmorWPDqvEwPOmXYuNqnG-2F55HacLFRji70rViNWH6KJbST9zWeAHsHkkpKJIbzHljOh8oV p3XWKPdhlpTv6NgXHUebjRdM7zLbyml92ab2ZY9lmgqx8nmHkt nusQWWalVi7OkKce93ZUEH0LCaf2A4SXUJdXfnUHZa5pQx5F1p ggdKDjghweKWunAZGzB5XArAftVHlu3Sw2SC-2BF1MtKCsvO5KuDBT5oJ4f31fovulj9LgQUh-2BfdeMYUEu8t3G9XZmt-2FGf2j-2BiQdLXr3TtC49v8klXbXmSYfUZ8GONRgBMyVN4mxL7a3sSpiY djYmA9lC0OV0qg-2BuOY9DF2Peknplugckr2nneKk166-2F-2FNHoJNb1IfKmTJdvbcw6tQ9IeisOLEuCTQs9GW2Zh-2FzBExm2C9VAZce22BcDJjuh49cpNjY2L-2FPkF3nI1mOjMAso7RHQGEgI19ZT4eVNuFsrlEs5W8KrDBwpJt T-2BkHOVqPC), write a Letter to the Editor (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h1/xbh8YHp4gj1HVQWocqKTbK9edtk2iKfU5ZlvKROU7ooZz8cYpX FlL1OA38YUBYZQF-2BXPG86pMFfxuKjS9qaNvLjinx3UlrHQpAmlp7BmO3yVltT9OZ gk0XP-2Bn1DM76CTsEZbxErs5WUsexJSaduHqn3oxy7Wf9EkcT2QpBHv 73-2FQ2RC0gWKVLtgUonHKKVQgqlZoxe1aNcRqb3L9uwkIbdxlVUc 3duy2Z-2FMq-2Bm6vHO2Hhek7WRLdoBviyb7NDYG5SwaiMCrkwcgP4Kz0n1Sxg wkF3XdjWmiYyVIz8r5fy2HAsZQ-2Bn4yCWF-2BRrjO9A1-2Bm4gKr5f9riPCN3LqoxzLO5aSs8ZYtjzIJKTopRKsiwaD06Sm bLExrhmngqXHdNEzP6jIgqRuHdSygkf2hBSAdfDH4QmiMKtCws E4w6RkAPoXslg-2BmdFM6o0zB5bD-2BL89-2Fs-2BHczztGqzmSyPoCKcdhTztQkwkW6wzG6n1zDJiTqxrADWGA25 5JSTCcHEwklW9EWL-2BAppU6SRNKcpSpyR0G6-2F0YlrOpO1fv-2F6JcesR4NJEHaxpiPhIaEHs-2B-2F4Uge2-2BvySbxHgHk1fYsWhmwVDNXHXqFHu9r2sTTCxsLvUAzkICTmjv E9PCXsku4WTBV8BuoIafKbFN1TFq6IdWwzrRn4CQBu4mxVzuM4 Jyo7hTF-2F3FopIqL9Kln-2Fbc7ioW157AKU2qcQUiwowVSUfX0shAyT2wLODT2iYNh65d38 4Nchgg-3D) and call your Representative (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h2/xbh8YHp4gj1HVQWocqKTbOB-2FxS-2FxceMCJ3ssHHABzwFEdRo1zcepFVBiPFhmFP8yFAopxcFzyYr 2Veiz991PZVkRXhbdQXg581Avd5h-2FS6cepJqkMlCfNI-2BBE9YiPaw-2FpLapks95W0iUAncnB-2FfvlPxdVLCP-2FuF5glOyOfmP-2F38lXTxc6F2Kd6hygfSRAm3hlbE-2FugDtrEU2ehUZJIklsig-2F0AvAVwxGc0ZZxvsQgGloy28shSOYg4sBkqzErcdsSjuICron 5PIlDDSrVx4fIUPGj1MwSsWnM-2Be6ALPfF4giuRlJcTYY6RwR0-2B8IDUQKTwAupgmT1FIu7sMzmHljsW83WNJjdpTzRbgM7XX1hL zB2FyXGGwvUuuqX0tYvKcNLpLwXeaaw4Lz6YMDXn-2FY3TgYes9IVYwVU3IgG54KnIvrSVojiVro-2FVd8Bhlux6PAe-2BOLeJNRxv4xLEpi3JqWyJekpw3aJy6hOYqdbHUc5d29Fl92Wd Il74h9-2FQQ9KBP966-2Fsg9rEemYkE36W5AtuvAleatvMKf8cwk-2FMrhXU3QmlTqVUPsrI2ymYPZPtM6D8vTCJZ7Q6m8W9gxLgd3r xopuhcGa6cAweHe-2B59wtWveJXvAkor6eV969MMn2r5ccYoGgwMHFEIrIkTRmDFl7 k8rK9Iix-2Frr9e2NJQH5Shc-2Fq-2FLk9iQXBDWAtuieoW8cd3). We have provided tools that all you to do all of these tasks with a few clicks. The phone call is free using our tool.

Email your Senators and Representative -- don't roll back Net Neutrality! (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBewM-2BBXwXmVcDr-2FHe7DI-2FHPFrk7xL-2BTtd3jncxjGIpIHXVyebcGjfialCtmp4Uvr6aTNPjU3REQrs6 p51prBXVBt2wyxmwdTUB1DJ3-2BpLeEcN6YzTmhsczG36TvZts9fW5rpE5oSexi5otazjsljeK9 e-2BdKrmCDOtKFTsljuzOjROZ0DnK2wJd29Ko8H0wDJGLlT4jPjk xpclJnyW1zvwPTz0E7phizE990b2I5dOLRcfqWCmLOSzOLf9SF bw-2BATgeUxv-2FR6uZIdDKQ9lpYDuJ53dIE0qxvxfj-2BLQd3WzORJCnIozqLm0a3lJO7XemTqlZpKz5GHBVVbdrfQrzh 2l1Mgh6HKhBNRXPfPVALQXrKJn9yP5MfggIwiXVzA77O-2BO9yHoSW3OLGK3tXA8Sih19Jacc2qsUG7JD9dz0S2tXDZiuSK iw-2FbjvLYA9THZpI6q28pKZkkXkgZvIB6-2F7R970-2Bi0jwx-2BLztnSe5DfQjT9ADDkDQOs1S5zjJ6ATyI9oeQomXBDGQs-2F-2FacxEAUPR7wYQAy6X4fs-2BsrbMrpHgJlElGvuIY50PpbPJrxLtUK73aVzLK9GunXkDyHzz hc-2B8pgR6BotMmhsUYREgCaPW2agica7L3k97ZaoczgvdvHV2ezX Dnb4cHDjBHEvp4XbUkUdZUNmyF7Hw8QRUVK-2Bj1Ay1ThRwVIkFxqNMTqgdD9X-2F3Q63jaMmTPHvs0T2JxH2qpjXU2anuSnsjjh-2FT3dXp9SDF)

This attack on the free and open Internet is nothing new. We saw it in the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and we saw it in the TPP; most importantly we have defeated it by speaking out against it constantly and loudly.

I am going to ask you to take two additional actions because this is so important. First, there are many people who are unfamiliar with the term Net Neutrality and we need to educate them. Our call tool will find your legislator, show you a script and allow you to place a free call and we will pay for it (http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h4/xbh8YHp4gj1HVQWocqKTbK9edtk2iKfU5ZlvKROU7ooZz8cYpX FlL1OA38YUBYZQF-2BXPG86pMFfxuKjS9qaNvLjinx3UlrHQpAmlp7BmO3wvASAshF WgMim64D9srOExqlvUSbfm-2BwsTMofFd11bSpkXoegJrvGuxi-2F6JrS3HFS9Q75bRsfBBePQBs8fAKoWzNfz5TH3iOgtV1B3yHU raJjHdhg-2FXMGNDr7dySlDzCTX-2FU0xWgdPbiIXuOXjTFqkRrXB6juIX-2B4-2FPi23aJs3NPoDcxoxhG0mo3FPsjZw0lqWNBCvoBL0TcThCFJl 62faXam0WixrYFDU6cRFJNnPyiO5NeeB-2FPYDVpepYu6c0JfCRBWxyzNCdNIc5v1Uv-2BoVIQn8pLkp4qhuUkUSezZOT6CsXmgN3sHNLO1muF58AaJts3-2FRuJtbYAG14eQbRcmkcCeKUWjAEXbRc-2BUjBF5kEN-2FAkOumftaLo3-2BZD0TghQXwfWWOLELm7fdHKOrCXh30jcFOoMUWaifr2HHcu0-2FkzTWVYGzEtDVRRsN1i-2BG3keja2921j3ISihmsOR6dsRt9kbfn0JlN8b-2BXCe7oI5xw93bhGDYabbzH72xPHadleiov7x6BAssmsZNJQHW H36rSXPin6-2Buzp7iJS5ivJNIv7pGLg8iqEpGUa985IJ-2FbDrdlI817gZgt0Mgd6mD178LO-2FvRWKzj-2BiSHBbq2G01IzvjbvFQSpMH9jlfNvtKCdUAs-3D"You can use our Letter to the Editor tool[/url] and send an OpEd to your local newspaper; if you live in a rural community there is a very high probability that your letter will be printed.

And finally, I am asking you to make a phone call to your Representative asking them to support Net Neutrality. [url="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/2wA/ni0YAA/t.285/J7FjAYVfSHmFjGOJo_CY5w/h5/xbh8YHp4gj1HVQWocqKTbOB-2FxS-2FxceMCJ3ssHHABzwFEdRo1zcepFVBiPFhmFP8y1gPDJGbpPUC WA7rcM5LVpX8uzdkl7ibwa29YdWovAuj889XS4zDgm1FHo22VP-2BFyq5Vb3CfeHj-2BLtwPrHyVoRRz1lDFdgO8u-2FZQNCL8u-2FX-2FdAAww1pLplPidtXhmcHX7s1IFfex6F6v-2Bx3M6swBvzydaSzxAwVbzNPzN8nxMjPsdKlv2DCcPTWABNd4H bP2y66Qc5nIEo-2FF5ZAeHOUzJZBcLZbuBH-2B6o-2BvVzu4p7glAdIWK7MS1llGgxqa0w-2FGUU79zeb2VagUqT2yL-2FB-2F3icdCo4z-2BM-2B1k48fq7iw7f1M3ygRhoGhQ093sHDgg-2B70J3mjfXcQKcVr681UBn3SwaMLfAEw1C77CGHSFgbGSHFOQL 9DsnR2-2F-2F9bY6uuuoTXai36ADjPL14pUcYQqpyMOUAAKkTuwwBoSP7nDq WN-2BU6GO3y0tgxxYmGNUmft3OHxyAtxj0oA2B47COXC-2FNihNSf2b4EY1xXp1OXQA5fcV-2BKD8WsE7wg8F3lJ8bdVKmv6YnQkJFMx-2Fhmbw78oGOdHD-2B0LcCdpsrtS0ivcFmJwrxmbu3kPKm32x9oHaRPUB2oeUC6gOF Hh6emssrjRMXP1vZIJnYZwl4qib3vpPufN-2BbNEAGrqiML45SLGbNTj1JZQdg); that's how important your phone call is.

A sincere "Thank You" to all of you who support and engage in activism on the Internet. Free speech must remain free for everyone not just big corporations and the rich.

In solidarity,

Andrea Miller
Executive Director


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Tell the FCC why we need net neutrality (submit a video)


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Dear Chris,

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The only people who do not benefit from net neutrality are telecom executives – which is why they are the only ones opposing it. But to manufacture a fake debate on net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has accepted more than 450,000 fraudulent anti-net neutrality comments submitted by spammers who stole the names and addresses of unsuspecting real people.1

We all depend on a free and open internet – whether to complete schoolwork, apply for jobs, connect with our communities or participate in civic life. If you’re not a spambot, net neutrality affects you. We need to remind the FCC of all the real people who depend on affordable, uncensored access to the internet for our daily lives.

Share your video now and we’ll submit it directly to the FCC. Why does net neutrality matter to you? Click here to record and submit a video. (https://act.credoaction.com/go/14229?t=3&akid=23576.247355.ZnvgmN)

In a grassroots victory two years ago, millions of Americans pressured the FCC to make net neutrality the law of the land. Now Donald Trump’s FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is trying to destroy net neutrality. Pai wants the FCC to give up its role in protecting internet users and instead ask companies to voluntarily police themselves.2 As many have noted, Pai’s plan is “pure nonsense.”3 Even if companies agree, they could change their minds at any time. Meanwhile, broadband internet would no longer be classified as a utility, and the FCC would have abdicated its authority to protect internet users.

Under net neutrality, internet providers cannot block content, slow traffic or create “fast lanes” to prioritize websites whose owners pay more.4 By making the internet a more level playing field, net neutrality protects civil rights, creates jobs, drives innovation, facilitates community building and helps keep internet access affordable. Without net neutrality, the internet could look a lot more like cable television and less like it does today.

Republicans are trying to revoke our rights on the internet, and we need to fight back. We cannot allow Pai to move forward without vocal and sustained opposition at every stage. We need your voice to show the FCC that net neutrality is not negotiable and we won’t back down.

Our online tool makes it easy to record and submit your video in just a few minutes using your computer, tablet or phone. Click the link below to get started:

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Thank you for speaking out,

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References:

Fight for the Future, “Letter to the FCC from people whose names and addresses were used to submit fake comments against net neutrality,” May 25, 2017.
Jeff Sommer, “What Net Neutrality Rules Say,” The New York Times, March 12, 2015.
Nilay Patel, “Ajit Pai’s net neutrality plan is nonsense, The Verge, April 7, 2017.
Sommer, “What Net Neutrality Rules Say.”

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Call the FCC now to help save the Internet!


Dear Chris,

Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is trying to destroy net neutrality and give Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Comcast unprecedented power to control what you see and do online.

Under President Obama, we won landmark net neutrality protections that protect free speech, competition, and diversity on the Internet. But Trump’s FCC is trying to undo those protections -- allowing big telecom companies to profit by acting as gatekeepers of what’s allowed on their networks, and how accessible it is.

Losing net neutrality would be a disaster for free speech, small businesses and startups trying to compete with big corporations, and diverse content that serves the widest possible range of people and communities.(1)

We’ve joined numerous other organizations in flooding the FCC with thousands of phone calls leading up to a massive day of action on July 12. That’s how we overcame Republicans and their friends in the telecom industry to win the fight for net neutrality in 2015 -- and that’s how we’ll do it this year, too.

Help us flood the FCC with thousands of phone calls opposing their plan to destroy the Internet as we know it. (https://couragecampaign.actionkit.com/go/5050?t=19&akid=4209.2053337.GXEY7Y)

If this attack on the open Internet succeeds, ISPs will slow down or block websites that don’t pay them for the right to reach their customers. That would fundamentally change how the Internet works. Losing net neutrality could turn the Internet into a closed, corporate-dominated media system rather than the powerful, diverse, fertile ground for innovation and exchange of ideas that it is now.(2)

For Internet users like me and you, it means that the cost of Internet access will rise. Free wifi could all but disappear. Big Telecom companies will give you access to their preferred websites and services for free, but make you pay to use anyone else’s. The Internet will look more and more like cable TV -- suitable for consumption, but too expensive for regular people to access it to produce their own content.(3) And that would be bad for entrepreneurs, for artists, and for anyone who wants to express an idea online.

The FCC’s chairman, Ajit Pai, is a former lawyer for Verizon who has spent much of his career fighting to kill net neutrality, so it’s no surprise that he’s doing this. But we’ve faced long odds before, and won.

In early 2014, it seemed unlikely to most experts that the FCC would protect net neutrality by reclassifying Internet service as a utility. The FCC chairman at the time, Tom Wheeler, was a former telecom industry lobbyist who pushed for much weaker rules that would have done little to actually protect net neutrality. But as hundreds of thousands of people spoke out and put unrelenting, strategically-focused pressure on the FCC, Wheeler ended up backing the strong rules to protect Internet freedom that Trump and Pai are trying to undo.(4)

Even if we don’t stop the FCC from undoing these protections in the short term, your voice is still incredibly important. We can make it clear that what they’re doing is incredibly unpopular and wrong for the country, setting the stage for us to reverse this attack on the Internet when Democrats regain power.

Add your voice to the flood of phone calls making clear that the FCC’s attack on the open Internet will cause a massive backlash from citizens and consumers. (https://couragecampaign.actionkit.com/go/5050?t=20&akid=4209.2053337.GXEY7Y)

Yours in the fight for a free and open Internet,

William, along with Annie, Brenna, Caitlin, Cheyenne, Eddie, Emma, Kelsey, Lindsay, Mahdi, Mary, Molly, Raquel, Scottie, Susannah, and Tim (the Courage team)

Footnotes:
1. https://www.wired.com/2017/03/ex-fcc-boss-gut-net-neutrality-gut-internet-freedom
2. https://www.wired.com/2013/11/so-the-internets-about-to-lose-its-net-neutrality
3. http://www.networkworld.com/article/3154091/internet/the-loss-of-net-neutrality-say-goodbye-to-a-free-and-open-internet.html
4. https://www.cnet.com/news/tom-wheeler-fcc-net-neutrality-open-internet-unlikely-defender


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[The Intransigent Faction]

Sorry to resurrect an older thread, but this issue's gotten a lot of attention lately with the impending FCC vote on December 14.

Net neutrality has such widespread, impassioned support that it's crucial for the left to take a leading role in the movement to protect it.
A free and open internet is not only crucial to education and organization (and websites like this one), but its something we can honestly say we consistently stand for, while the move to help certain interests profit from an uneven playing field through throttling, etc. is something we're inherently against.

The idea that content producers should not be allowed to pay their way to greater access to web-surfers through preferential treatment by ISPs is consistent with socialist logic: let the people put it out there, and let the people decide what to browse, or not, without being systematically driven by mechanisms designed to privilege a few.

There will be protests at Verizon stores across the U.S. on December 7 (FCC Chairman Ajit Pai formerly worked on Verizon's legal team), and plenty of other actions, I'm sure.