Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease submit a comment to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality!
http://act.credoaction.com/letter/fcc_nn_comments_2014?The FCC is now accepting public comments on this proposal. The current comment period was supposed to end on Tuesday, but the public was commenting in such large numbers that the FCCs website couldnt handle all the traffic.
To accommodate this record-breaking interest in submitting comments, the FCC has now extended the deadline to this Friday. We need to make sure Chairman Wheeler and the rest of the FCC commissioners continue to feel overwhelming pressure from the public to take the necessary step of reclassifying the Internet as a public utility.
Net Neutrality is important because the Internet is an essential service Americans rely on to conduct our most basic daily affairs, from applying for a job to finding a home, to running a small business. And our right to communicate freely and be heard lies at the heart of our ability to participate equally in our democracy.
A string of federal court cases has made it abundantly clear that the FCC has the power to enforce strong Net Neutrality rules, but only if the FCC goes through the process of undoing a terrible Bush-era decision to deregulate broadband instead of treating it like the vital public utility it has become.
InfoView thread info, including edit history
TrashPut this thread in your Trash Can (My DU » Trash Can)
BookmarkAdd this thread to your Bookmarks (My DU » Bookmarks)
3 replies, 411 views
ShareGet links to this post and/or share on social media
AlertAlert this post for a rule violation
PowersThere are no powers you can use on this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
ReplyReply to this post
EditCannot edit other people's posts
Rec (1)
ReplyReply to this post
3 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
Please submit a comment to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality! (Original Post)
beac
Jul 2014
OP
ReverendDeuce
(1,643 posts)1. It won't matter.
There are apparently thousands of public comments so far and each will be ignored.
beac
(9,992 posts)2. Yes, by all means, let's do nothing.
ReverendDeuce
(1,643 posts)3. The public comments are a mere formality.
Nobody would dare cross the corporate interests. This "free Internet" thing has gone on too long.