Republicans have no idea, nor do they give a f*ck, about net neutrality and how ISPs can control or throttle content to force you to but their services, or watch third party sites at slower speeds.
Not one consumer wants to end net neutrality. This is a corporate takeover of the FCC and Republicans in government.
So, Net Neutrality has officially been repealed. It was split 3-2.
Now you guys need to absolutely pummel your local congressional representatives with calls, letters, and protests until Congress steps its game up and fixes this so that the FCC can never do this again.
We watched as three men callously laughed about how silly they thought some of the calls were for not being eloquent enough for their taste. We watched as they lied about the internet, even when the truth was uttered minutes before.
Don’t let them have this win.
Make your representatives miserable until they fix this. The news will be worthless to you in the upcoming months, as every major news network is either owned by an ISP or has tangential business with ISPs. They all serve to profit on this. Fact check with extreme prejudice. Don’t stop until your internet is back to where it needs to be.
Neutral.
I don’t care if you’re far-left, far-right, or dead down the center. Do you want it to be where an ISP can choose to throttle access to Fox News or Breitbart on a whim? What about Vox? What if some bad reviews come out for a movie and Comcast throttles it to hide that? What if Netflix is throttled into oblivion so that Hulu becomes the only possible option for viewing? What if you go to start-up a new business and you’re told that you have to pay for the $500/mo “business package” in order to get higher the 0.3 Mbps traffic speeds to your site?
Nothing about this decision is going to benefit how you use the internet.You use it for paying bills, for doctors and hospitals, for school, for work, and for entertainment.
Don’t give up, guys!
Make your representatives miserable.
DOesnt it need to go through court still? WHere it would be pummeled off?
That’s when advocates take it to court! Agency actions don’t need to be rubberstamped by the courts (in fact, courts prefer not to interfere with agency action).
And depending on which district takes this court case, it could end up favoring the FCC on this.
You want Congress to make the decision because then it is written in law, and isn’t likely to be easily overturned.
The motion to repeal Net Neutrality has been passed in a 3-2 vote
Before everyone loses their shit, I will like to urge everyone to talk a deep breath and focus on the following:
1: This cannot go into immediate effect.
2: There is still many issues that WILL be addressed by the Congress, Supreme Court, and many other government officials have a current say in the false comments, stolen idenities, denial of public hearings, and many other issues that the FCC did not address.
3: CALL. YOUR. OFFICALS. Do NOT give up, just because the vote has passed, don’t you DARE stop. Make this shit go front-page, make some NOISE.
I suggest finding out if there are already efforts in your area and if there are any state laws that create barriers to doing this (as the Telecoms have been ahead of the game here for at least a decade) by checking out this site that shows an interactive map of all this. (Clicking on states that are red will show what barriers you’ll have to overcome. In some states, you’ll have to lobby to overturn an existing law before anything is done)
Letter issued by House Republican comes as major companies and websites launch massive “Break The Internet” protest 48 hours before FCC’s scheduled vote
House Representative Mike Coffman (R-CO) has issued a letterthis morning asking Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to cancel the agency’s December 14th vote to repeal Title II net neutrality. In theletterCoffman cautions against the “significant unanticipated negative consequences” the agency’s current proposal could have, and urges the FCC “to delay your upcoming vote.” The letter comes as major web firms like Mozilla, Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, and Kickstarter join millions of Internet users in a mass online protestdemanding Congress stop the FCC’s vote.See screenshots of the protest here.
While a handful of GOP lawmakers (full list appended below) have publicly raised concerns over the agency’s controversial proposal, today’s letter marks the first time a Republican member of Congress has directly called on Chairman Pai to delay the vote – representing a major shift in the fight over rules that prevent Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking, throttling, or charging sites and users new fees.
In response, the following statement can be attributed to Evan Greer, Campaign Director for Fight for the Future (pronouns she/her):
“We commend Representative Coffman for listening to his constituents and asking Chairman Pai to stop the vote. We agree that the FCC’s should delay voting on their current proposal, and that strong net neutrality rules need to remain in place so that businesses and users remain protected. However, we strongly believe that a legislative solution is a solution in search of a problem. Title II enjoys immense bipartisan support amongst the public and the courts agree it provides a solid legal foundation to prevent anti competitive abuse from ISPs. Now other members of Congress must do the right thing and join Representative Coffman’s call. In recent months more than 800,000 Americans have called their member of Congress and asked them to stop the FCC’s controversial net neutrality repeal, and today they’ve seen indisputable evidence that their pressure is working.
“Net neutrality is not a partisan issue outside of Washington, DC. Voters from across the political spectrum don’t want their cable companies controlling what websites and apps they can use, or where they get their news from. Republican lawmakers like Mike Coffman can see the writing on the wall. Now the rest of Congress needs wake up, because their actions in over the next 48 hours will determine whether they are remembered as the lawmakers who answered their constituents call, or the politicians who let the free and open Internet die. Right now we don’t need Congress to legislate, we need them to do their jobs and rein in the FCC, which appears to be working for big business rather than the public.”
While Rep. Coffman is the first GOP lawmaker to publicly request that the FCC stop their vote, six other Republican lawmakers have publicly criticized the agency’s proposal, including:
Alaska senator Dan Sullivan and Representative Don Young
Before Net Neutrality is repealed* get your offline networks in order.
Write down phone numbers for local and national organizing groups, for who to call if you’re arrested at a protest, for local and state level politicians, for local civic and religious organizations, legal aid groups, food pantries, clinics – any place that you might need help from, or that you might be able to help. Here’s a good starter list.
Write down meeting times and places for organizations you’re interested in. Look for local groups or meetups that have things like postcard- or letter-writing nights, where people share information while they write. Include groups like the ACLU, NAACP, unions, and political parties, which will continue to have connections/be able to pass information to and from national networks.
Make sure you have other ways to get information, whether that’s by checking in with people or groups, reading local and national magazines and newspapers, getting on mailing lists or phone trees, or going to meetings. Make sure you can access some kind of actual, physical, not-reliant-on-interceptable-electronic-communication word of mouth network.
If you never learned or have kind of forgotten how to organize without the internet, this is the time to get your resources in a row. While you still have all this stuff at your fingertips, make sure you have the information you need to stay involved once it gets harder. We have a few days left – now is the time.
On December 14th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to replace current rules enforcing net neutrality. Nothing short of an extinction-level event will prevent it. But before abandoning all hope, know that while the battle for net neutrality at the FCC may have been lost, the war isn’t even close to a conclusion.
Hello! I just wanted to submit this so that people will perhaps have a better understanding of what will happen after the vote. That isn’t to say people should sit down just yet – if by some miracle we’re able to curb the vote, that’d suit me just fine. However, not all is lost even if it does pass.
This article explains exactly how the case will be handled in the courts following the vote, as well as some details about what to expect from your service. Donate to the ACLU; talk to your friends in law. Organize peaceful protest in great numbers once a court location and date is settled.
Everyone is going on about the whole package deal thing with regards to net neutrality, and having to pay for packages of given sites
And while yes, this might happen, it’s such an absurd thing to put the majority of the focus on when the biggest, most nefarious use of net neutrality, which will 100% definitely be used, is media manipulation
Say your ISP is a company with particularly conservative views, and they’re strongly pro-life, for example. They could oh so easily cut off resources on abortions – information on how and where to get one, support groups, all the rest of it. Poof. Inaccessible.
They don’t want news about Trump making an utter fucking ass of himself out there? Well, time to throttle it!
God forbid, they’re horrifically homophobic? Kiss goodbye to your lovely LGBT+ online circles and resources. Your ISP doesn’t want the filthy gays influencing their customers.
Sure, you might have to pay a couple extra bucks for Tumblr or YouTube or whatever – but that’s not a definite and it’s such a weird thing to fixate on when net neutrality literally allows ISPs to dictate what you do and do not interact with on this internet. A world without net neutrality is dangerously, dangerously biased – a world where not all views are equal.
So please, please, please for the love of fucking god get out there, contact your reps, contact congress, contact whoever the fuck you even CAN because net neutrality is so, so, so much more than paying a little more for some online services; free speech in its purest, truest form is quite literally what we are playing for here, folks
this filthy gay would like to keep net neutrality pls thx
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