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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.

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.

Sign up here to join us on July 12 and help stop the Trump team's attack on Net Neutrality.

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.

On July 12th the internet will come together to protect Net Neutrality. Sign up for more details.

Together we can safeguard internet freedom.

Thanks for all that you do—

Lucia, Candace, Mary Alice and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team
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P.S. Sign up to get the details about the national day of action to save Net Neutrality.


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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, write a Letter to the Editor and call your Representative. 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!

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; 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.

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:

https://act.credoaction.com/go/14230....247355.ZnvgmN

Thank you for speaking out,

Brandy Doyle, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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.

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.

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...ternet-freedom
2. https://www.wired.com/2013/11/so-the...net-neutrality
3. http://www.networkworld.com/article/...-internet.html
4. https://www.cnet.com/news/tom-wheele...ikely-defender


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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.