National Day Of Action To Save The Internet On September 15
I've been watching the efforts of many to bring broadband to the vast Navajo Nation where it is critical that young students have access to the internet to do their homework. If the internet access to rural areas is forced into the slow lane of service this important broadband project will be furthered hampered.
As the proposed rules stand, Big Cable and Telecom providers will be able to control the speed at which different websites load—including creating a fast lane for big corporations that can pay more, and slowing-down service to independent sites like Daily Kos that can't—to outright blocking content they don’t want on their networks.
Net neutrality has been the default state of the internet since its invention—internet service providers load all websites at the same speed. Now, Big Telecom wants to change the rules so they can extract more money from websites by making them pay to be served as customers at faster speeds.
In order to preserve net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission needs to ban Big Telecom from creating these so-called “fast-lanes” which only large companies could afford. Start-ups and independent sites like Daily Kos would be left behind and crushed.
During a meeting with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler in May, he told Daily Kos campaign staff that he pays the most attention to hand crafted comments in the docket which share personal experiences. Right now, net neutrality has already received an impressive percentage of personal comment. Joan McCarter reports: Congress and FCC deluged with calls on net neutrality—keep them coming! We need you to add to that number. Write a personal note TODAY to Chairman Wheeler telling him why we need to preserve net neutrality. Fundamentally, we are in a fight to determine who controls the internet—people or corporations.
You have until this coming Monday to tell your unique story.
Two Rallies Planned in Philadelphia and New York City
This coming Monday, September 15th
Please plan to attend to show your opposition
to corporations having more control than the people!
Comcast Center
12:30-1:30
1701 John F. Kennedy Blvd.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
RSVP
City Hall Park Eastern Plaza
12:30-1:30
Chambers Street & Park Row
New York City, NY 10007
RSVP