Defend the Internet – Net Neutrality under fire
Next month the Trump Administration threatens to end equal access to the internet in the USA.
This Wednesday July 12th you will notice a coordinated protest on some of the internets most popular websites.
If you haven’t been paying attention its about Net Neutrality. Over 170 tech companies will slow down their devices to protest changes in current laws.
Net Neutrality is the principle that internet providers should give all consumers equal access to all legal content regardless of its source.
Or in other terms there are no fast pass lanes, you would not be able to cut in lines or pay to go any faster than anyone else. All data regardless of size is on a level playing field.
Companies like Comcast do not support their company classified as a “Title II” telecommunications carrier because there is a large amount of regulation and oversight under the current laws. Under proposed new laws companies would only be asked to not suppress content on the honor system. However, since the internet is not a roadside produce stand Im pretty sure that would fail immediately.
If you support equal access to content please take action now, and share this information.
Watch babeface John Oliver explain it further:
www.gofccyourself.com – Click: Express State you are in favor of FCC Open Internet Rules “Title II” preservation of Net Neutrality laws. And urge them to protect those rules
Or Please go to https://act.openmedia.org/defendtheinternet to send your thoughts to the FCC Chairman Pai
Protect the Internet’s Founding Principles
We need to act now, before FCC Chairman Pai and his Big Telecom cronies undo the historic open Internet wins of the past few years.5 If Pai has his way, it will be harder to afford high-speed Internet, to hold the government to account, and for online startups — like the next Netflix or Google — to flourish.6
In 2015, we showed government and corporate interests that if you mess with the Internet, you’ll lose.7 After millions of Americans spoke out, strong Net Neutrality8 rules were put in place, ensuring that the Internet would be a level playing field, without “slow lanes” for those who couldn’t pay. It meant we’d have one Internet for all, not a two-tiered Internet.
But that open Internet is in danger right now.
Chairman Pai says he wants to take a “weed whacker” to those protections.9 While Pai, a former lawyer at Verizon, goes to bat for Big Telecom, he’s kneecapping up-and-coming web companies who won’t benefit from the same level playing field as companies that dominate the market today.
Pai’s version of the web means a slower Internet for us all, making it harder to access each other — our friends, family, and loved ones — and the wider world we’ve come to depend on.
We will be faced with a web where videos and content not owned by Big Telecom load much more slowly. This could mean we can’t access essential communications, and websites could slow to a crawl when we need them most.
An open Internet is also an incredibly important tool we have to hold politicians to account and revive our democracy. We need an open Internet to beat back corruption and hold the powerful accountable for their actions.
Defend America’s Internet. Don’t let powerful interests destroy the founding principles of our web.
From Open Media
Protect the Internet’s Founding Principles
We need to act now, before FCC Chairman Pai and his Big Telecom cronies undo the historic open Internet wins of the past few years.5 If Pai has his way, it will be harder to afford high-speed Internet, to hold the government to account, and for online startups — like the next Netflix or Google — to flourish.6
In 2015, we showed government and corporate interests that if you mess with the Internet, you’ll lose.7 After millions of Americans spoke out, strong Net Neutrality8 rules were put in place, ensuring that the Internet would be a level playing field, without “slow lanes” for those who couldn’t pay. It meant we’d have one Internet for all, not a two-tiered Internet.
But that open Internet is in danger right now.
Chairman Pai says he wants to take a “weed whacker” to those protections.9 While Pai, a former lawyer at Verizon, goes to bat for Big Telecom, he’s kneecapping up-and-coming web companies who won’t benefit from the same level playing field as companies that dominate the market today.
Pai’s version of the web means a slower Internet for us all, making it harder to access each other — our friends, family, and loved ones — and the wider world we’ve come to depend on.
We will be faced with a web where videos and content not owned by Big Telecom load much more slowly. This could mean we can’t access essential communications, and websites could slow to a crawl when we need them most.
An open Internet is also an incredibly important tool we have to hold politicians to account and revive our democracy. We need an open Internet to beat back corruption and hold the powerful accountable for their actions.
Defend America’s Internet. Don’t let powerful interests destroy the founding principles of our web.
The Mozilla Foundation has created a podcast in which experts offer their take on net neutrality – they also plan to share videos on the day of actionImage copyrightMORZILLA
Footnotes:
[1] Trump names new FCC chairman: Ajit Pai, who wants to take a ‘weed whacker’ to net neutrality: Los Angeles Times
[2] An Anti-Consumer Agenda at the F.C.C.: New York Times
[3] Trump’s F.C.C. Pick Quickly Targets Net Neutrality Rules: New York Times
[4] Trump’s New FCC Chief Just Opened the Floodgates for Zero-Rating: Motherboard
[5] Ajit Pai on net neutrality: “I favor an open Internet and I oppose Title II”: Ars Technica
[6] The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide — and then walks in the other direction: Washington Post
[7] The day the Internet stood still: TechCrunch
[8] Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
[9] Ajit Pai, staunch opponent of consumer protection rules, is now FCC chair: Ars Technica
