Net Neutrality Is in Danger. Tell the FCC Why We Need It

[Equinox Moon]

Our new FCC chairman has said that net neutrality’s “days are numbered.”

Net neutrality is in grave danger. Back in 2015, advocates for the open Internet won a hard-fought battle to preserve net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic is treated equally and that providers cannot charge content providers for “fast lanes” for those who can afford it. Net neutrality is key to the work of activists and independent media outlets (like The Nation!), allowing them to reach people across the country without being drowned out by corporate media companies with big pockets.

Millions of people wrote to the FCC and their elected representatives to demand net neutrality the first time around. We’ll need another “people-powered movement,” as vanden Heuvel calls it, to defend net neutrality yet again.

TAKE ACTION
https://www.thenation.com/article/net-neutrality-is-in-danger-tell-the-fcc-why-we-need-it/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. done and shared

[Equinox Moon]

2. Thanks!

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Done and shared

[bdamomma]

4. K&R

[Dustlawyer]

5. If you look at this from a wide view you see how big business,

with the help of the U.S.Chamber of Commerce and various trade organizations and Think Tanks, have incrementally seized power over the media with laws bought and paid for from the Congressmen and women they own. They made Donald Trump President!

Unless we really attack the root problem, that is their ability to buy our representatives, we will eventually lose on every issue we care about. We will probably die from pollution and Climate Change, if not by nuclear winter before they would ever decide they needed to address the issue because it was starting to cut into profits

The internet is too destabilizing as it is to their power and control. They can control the Presidential election, and other elections for that matter, with the complete control of what we see and hear.

[Amaryllis]

6. This would be really hard on some very influential businesses such as Amazon who depend

heavily on their customers having easy access. Need to get them in on this. Repubs care about the bottom line with big business.

[Equinox Moon]

7. Time to get the word out.

[TrekLuver]

8. Gets me sick...thanks for taking care of the 'common man' Trashbag Trump.

signed.

[BeckyDem]

9. Essential fight.