This is something that is very important to pay attention to, and if you are an American I implore you to do everything that you can! Contact your representatives, research your ISPs, and keep a vigilant eye on this! The FCC is likely to make this ruling close to Thanksgiving in an attempt to squeak it by without anyone noticing.
Net neutrality is the reason why you can visit any website confidently. It’s why you don’t have to pay a premium to be able to access YouTube. It’s why you don’t have the internet bundled into different packages like TV is.
If they remove net neutrality protections, then there is no benefit to the consumer. Put simply, your ISP could choose to charge you more in order to visit specific sites, and not every town in the United States has the option to switch to a new ISP because some ISPs hold a monopoly in some areas.
This is what the internet looks like without net neutrality:
They’re trying to fatigue public resistance by trying to repeal net neutrality as often as possible. We have to stay vigilant. Motivate yourself by assuming no one else is calling/writing. Don’t assume other people will do it.
Okay, this is a misdirection that abuses most of english speaker’s unability to speak portuguese. First off, this is webpage that is offering mobile data plans, not internet access, which always have been found themselves capped in their use. The offer that the site is presenting is the service so certain applications on your phone do not consume the data you already have contracted previously.
I’m in favor of Net Neutrality based on the principles of avoiding the possibility of privates censoring content and blocking free access to information, but lying and misdirection will never give you an upper hand in a debate, only discredit you and corrupt the cause you’re defending.
Hooooly shit. According to this writer, Xfinity is falsely impersonating its customers in order to post anti-net neutrality comments on the FCC website.
Try to even it out by visiting gofccyourself.com and hitting +EXPRESS and leaving a pro-net neutrality comment.
Comcastroturf.com explains to the public that “someone has submitted nearly half a million anti-net neutrality comments to the FCC, many of which appear to be completely fake — using stolen names and addresses,” and gives anyone an opportunity to check if their name is being used without their knowledge. Today, Fight for the Future released a statement to announce that Comcast’s attorneys had sent them a cease and desist order that insists the group “take all steps necessary to see that the Domain Name [Comcastroturf.com] is assigned to Comcast.”
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My name was on there and I’ve never been a comcast customer…. you better check for your name!
wow, I was on there too, and same here, never been a comcast customer in my life. check and make sure! this is so gross
I’ve changed my avatar in preparation for the day of action to save net neutrality.
Net neutrality is really important. Basically, right now, the internet is treated as a utility, like water and gas. Everybody’s rates are the same, and nobody can pay more for faster or better service.
This may be about to change.
The FCC and Chairman Ajit Pai want to reclassify the internet to make it just like phone and cable services, i.e., companies charging exorbitant prices for shoddy services and charging even more if you want faster service.
If net neutrality fails, ISPs can slow down or even block websites completely, which would stifle and kill the innovation, creativity, and free expression the internet has allowed us to have. Without net neutrality, the internet will be just like cable TV: the content you see is only what the provider puts in front of you.
That means if they don’t like your startup website or the website you made for your new company, they can charge you exorbitant fees, which they then pass down to consumers, for allowing your website to even exist.
That means that if they don’t like anything the Resistance does (and they wouldn’t like most of it; Comcast and Verizon are multimillion dollar donors to the GOP), they can block these websites. Your efforts at resisting the Trump administration will be suppressed.
If you are poor, or live in a rural area, you won’t be able to afford the exorbitant rates ISPs would charge for even basic internet access. This is designed specifically to target the poor and POC.
Websites, Internet users, and online communities will come together to
sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Battleforthenet.com (linked above) is your resource guide.
I strongly, STRONGLY urge you to participate.
Artists who use the internet to promote your work, you have a stake in this fight.
Anybody who reads fic on AO3, you have a stake in this fight.
Anybody who’s ever had an online shop or store, you have a stake in this fight.
Anybody who uses the internet, you have a stake in this fight.
Learn more and join the fight at battleforthenet.com/july12
Go to Gofccyourself.com and submit a pro-net neutrality comment to the FCC directly today and every day!
BOOOOOOST
If you examine the comments there, the bots have posted many many cut and paste comments SUPPORTING the end of net neutrality by claiming the Obama administration regulations stifle innovation.
It’s the US national day to save Net Neutrality: the day when we phone, tweet, email, and show up in person at every congresscritter, senator and FCC Commisioner’s office to demand a free, fair and open internet, where the big phone and cable companies don’t get to demand bribes from the services you use for delivering them to you.
You buy internet access because you want to access the sites you want. Your ISP – in America, that’s almost certainly a phone monopoly or a cable monopoly – wants the right to slow down traffic from the sites you love unless they bid against deep-pocketed giants for access to you. In other words, they want to get paid by you to access the net, and paid by the net for access to you.
This became illegal a year ago, when the FCC under former Chairman Tom Wheeler enacted “Title II” rules for ISPs, saying they couldn’t discriminate against online services that hadn’t paid them bribes. But Donald Trump’s FCC Chairman pick, Ajit Pai – a former cable lobbyist – has declared his intention to roll back Title II, allowing monopolistic ISPs to pick the winners and losers for the whole American internet.
Today, we put a stop to it. EFF’s Dear FCC tool will send a letter to the FCC about this, and Battle for the Net’s widget will also send a letter to Congress, then let you call up Congresspeople and Senators to let their staffers know where you stand. I made 20 phone calls this morning. It felt great.
Chairman Pai and the ISP lobbyists say they don’t want to “regulate” telcoms, but telcoms are nothing but regulation: without the government rules that grant them access to rights of way in and between America’s cities and towns, telcoms companies would have to pay for every square foot of sidewalk they dug up, every mile of railroad track they wanted to run conduit next to. It would cost trillions.
The telcoms industry is absolutely in favor of the regulation that saves them trillions in capital outlays and rents – the only regulation they oppose is the one that says they owe a fair and useful internet in return for all that public largesse.
In 2012, the SOPA Internet Blackout melted Congress’s switchboard, putting through 8 million phone calls in 72 hours. SOPA died. Now it’s time for the net to flex its muscle again. We all depend on a free, fair and open internet – whether you read Boing Boing or 4chan, the New York Times or The Clickhole.
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