"This Is the Year Donald Trump Kills Net Neutrality." That was the scary analysis in WIRED Magazine earlier this year.
To stop that from happening, we need to make National Public Radio’s analysis come true:
“Wednesday might see one of the largest digital protests to date.”
Trump’s FCC has to accept public comments, so allied organizations and websites across the Internet are making today a huge national day of action where we’ll deliver TONS of comments to the FCC demanding Net Neutrality.
Can you take part in the protest by submitting a prepared comment to the FCC or write one yourself? Click here -- and demand that the FCC stop its attack on Net Neutrality.
The FCC has the power to end Net Neutrality, so our one shot is doing what we did several years ago -- FLOOD THE ZONE.
In 2014, 4 million comments (including over 147,000 from PCCC members) were submitted to the FCC to save Net Neutrality by many of the allies we’re still working with today. In 2015, in response to our activism, the Obama White House said for the first time that it would enshrine Net Neutrality in law. After a years-long battle, the Internet was finally regulated as a public utility like water.
Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and others were prevented from creating Internet fast lanes for big corporations and Internet slow lanes for everyone else.
But now, the corporations are on the attack again. And this time they’ve got Trump and his new FCC Chairman -- a former lawyer for Verizon -- on their side. And they’re doing everything they can to end Net Neutrality forever.
They want big corporations to be able to control what we see and do online. They want to be able to block, throttle, and censor Internet content. And they want to charge extra fees for decent service.
We’ve been here before. In 2012, our movement held the Internet Blackout Day that saved the Internet from two draconian censorship laws. In 2014, we did the Internet Slow Down that built momentum toward finally protecting Net Neutrality in 2015.
Netflix, Etsy, Vimeo, Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are all on our side on this fight -- and we stand with loads of allies including MoveOn, Democracy for America, Greenpeace, Demand Progress, and NARAL -- all working together to make today “one of the largest digital protests to date.”
We’ve won this fight before. Now, we must win it again -- and fend off the most serious threat to a free and open Internet yet.
Can you take part in the protest by submitting a prepared comment to the FCC or write one yourself? Click here -- and demand that the FCC stop its attack on Net Neutrality.
Let’s protect our free and open internet.