Like many of you, I have been signing petitions and making phone calls to the White House and the FCC for weeks urging Chairman Tom Wheeler to preserve the internet as we know it and not to approve pay-to-play.
Well, today I woke up to this email from Wheeler.
Thank you very much for contacting us about the ongoing Open Internet proceeding. We're hoping to hear from as many people as possible about this critical issue, and so I'm very glad that we can include your thoughts and opinions.
I'm a strong supporter of the Open Internet, and I will fight to keep the internet open. Thanks again for sharing your views with me.
Tom Wheeler
Chairman
Federal Communications Commission
Does this mean we've won? Or does Wheeler have some strange definition of open internet?
2:22 PM PT: Okay, he's trying to support net neutrality without supporting net neutrality, it seems. "No I didn't mean fast lanes and slow lanes, I meant fast lanes and not-so-fast lanes." Or something like that. Reclassifying broadband as a utility is really the only thing that would really make sense.
At least we know he responds to public pressure. This just means we have to keep applying it.