Please Help Keep up the Pressure for Net Neutrality!

You may already have contacted the FCC and/or your representatives about the latest threat to net neutrality; if so, it can't hurt to do it again.

Internet service in the US is slow and overpriced compared to other developed countries. The reasons boil down to the fact that we’ve failed to treat it as a public utility, as other countries have. Not only have we left this essential infrastructure to the vagaries of corporations, but we’ve under-regulated them, resulting in a lack of competition, among other problems.

Now, the FCC wants to make things much worse. They want to adopt regulations permitting telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon to create fast lanes for those who can pay more, picking winners and losers online.

Partly because of the FCC’s loosening of regulations during the last few decades, at least 90% of traditional media are owned by 6 colossal, multinational corps. If we allow the FCC to kill net neutrality, the same forces that bought control of cable tv and our political process will have the power to discriminate and censor content on the net.

The net is where freedom happens now. We need to make ourselves heard! Please take a few moments to phone, fax, and/or email the FCC and/or your representatives (URL's below), and tell them to reclassify the internet as a public utility and to regulate to protect REAL net neutrality.

Email the FCC at openinternet@fcc.gov .
Find your House rep at http://www.house.gov/representatives/find .
Find your Senators at https://www.senate.gov/ .
Send a comment to the Pres. at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments .
And you can see John Oliver's recent segment on this issue AND submit your comment to the FCC at http://act.freepress.net/letter/internet_fcc_nprm_oliver/?t=4&akid=4797.9321159.GW7YcO .

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