Members of Congress are are speaking out on net neutrality and urging the FCC to take the threat to an open Internet that the Google/Verizon deal would have posed and to act on it.
The FCC needs to hear the message not just from members of Congress, but from Congressional leadership and the White House. The political momentum has been almost entirely with the telecoms in the past year. They've coopted 74 members of Congress--all of them Democrats--who signed an industry-drafted letter urging the FCC to abandon efforts to protect Net Neutrality and promote universal broadband access.
We need to blunt that momentum. CREDO action sent out this message to people signing their petition to tell Google "Don't be evil."
Thanks for sending a message to Google. There's something else you can do today to help save the Internet.
A progressive ally in Washington DC who has close ties to leading Democrats has let us know that Democratic leadership is not hearing the public backlash.
In addition to getting Google to back down, it is crucial that we make some noise at the White House so key administration officials will understand that simply ignoring this issue will make it go away.
Can you call the White House right now and ask the President to send a strong message to the FCC backing immediate action to protect net neutrality?
Please call the White House comment line at: 202-456-1111.
Here's a sample script:
My name is ____ and I live in _____. Please tell the President to keep his campaign promise to make net neutrality the law of the land. Our Internet connection should be free of corporate gatekeepers -- and a backroom deal between Verizon and Google puts a free and open internet at risk. The President needs to immediately send a strong message to his FCC backing immediate action to protect net neutrality. Thank you.
Call the White House, and also please call Speaker Pelosi (202-225-0100) and Leader Reid (202-224-3542) and give them the same message. Both Pelosi and Reid have also been strong supporters of net neutrality, but they need to translate that support into pressure on the FCC. Congress isn't going to be able to act to protect the Internet, so the FCC must.
