NET NEUTRALITY CALLS REACHING 1000 PER MINUTE!!

[marym625]

They couldn't make it easier! They send the letter for you, call your phone and then it automatically calls your Congressman and both Senators. They give you a script and boom! You're done!

IF YOU HAVEN'T YET - DO IT NOW

https://www.battleforthenet.com/?from=banner

[sabrina 1]

1. Thank you, that does make it easy. Not sure our Senators care, but at least they

hear from the people who elected them, they sure hear enough from the Corporate Entities who fund many of their campaigns.

for a very important issue.

[marym625]

2. Thank you!!

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Important issue, yes. But read the find print of the web site.

You give them your phone number and email address and they promise to contact you for other reasons.
( see tiny print down at bottom of the pages)

I could not even find who "They" are, but they are most certainly collecting contact info on a lot of anti-corporation supporters.

[marym625]

8. I don't know who "they" are either

but with Common Cause (MY FAVORITE organization www.commoncause.org) and the ACLU using "they" I'm not worried. But great point. Thanks for making it!!

[marym625]

30. I found who they are

http://www.freepress.net/about

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Well done!!!! Their bios are helpful info.

Another good argument for the internet and ability to access information.

[marym625]

34. Thank you

A little ashamed I didn't do that before I posted it. That won't happen again.

Thanks for bringing it up!

[dixiegrrrrl]

36. Well, no need to ashamed.

Being aware of how duplicitous the other side can be is a good thing, tho.
Suckering people on to fake web sites ( honey pots) is always possible.


And I have done my share of linking to dubious sites in my posts.
DU folks have been pretty helpful in educating me quickly about that!

[marym625]

37. I am usually pretty good about that

Having once linked to a Borowitz column saying, "you can't make this stuff up." Talk about feeling stupid!

I knew it had to be safe because of the sites sharing it. But I didn't know enough. I always appreciate being corrected or reminded. May end up embarrassed but that's the breaks. At least that time before I didn't link to The Onion

[Laelth]

3. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[marym625]

4. Thanks! That's all I want too!! to make sure this gets done!

[Laelth]

6. My pleasure. Bonus kick. n/t

-Laelth

[marym625]

11. COOL! Never got a bonus kick before!

Thanks!!

[Omaha Steve]

23. UUUMMM I've been kicked a lot, usually when I'm down

[marym625]

24. Kick back!

for you

[hwmnbn]

7. cool... done.. nt

[marym625]

9. THANKS!

[snooper2]

10. That would be about 17 CPS FYI

network wise that is actually pretty high- I would say normal volume for a good size call center-

[marym625]

12. Cool

who knew? Well obviously you knew!

THANKS for the info!

[BlindTiresias]

13. Calling it

Won't have an impact.

[marym625]

14. Please elaborate...

I would like to know why you think that. Seriously curious.

[BlindTiresias]

15. Too many powerful forces converging

Congresspeople too sympathetic to desires of wealthy who are part of the powerful forces converging. There has been loads of popular pressure against this and it keeps chugging along, even the FCC refuses to enact the regulatory powers they have even after the supreme court basically directed them to the direction they needed to go in order to regulate.

[marym625]

17. You may be right

but I sure hope you're wrong. And if we do nothing, we only have ourselves to blame.

Peace

[WillyT]

16. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[marym625]

18. Thanks WillyT

[Omaha Steve]

19. Talked to both Senate and our Congressman's office

They made it so easy to do. Just remember your in support of title II reclassification for net neutrality.

OS

[marym625]

21. who would have thunk it!

automated activism

Thanks!!

[cascadiance]

20. If you have a cell phone signal booster going through your Comcast service...

... then perhaps they're thinking that at some point they'll be able to charge you service fees for all of these phone calls being made to certain numbers if they get rid of net neutrality, and better yet talk a lot of those cell phone providers to have their phones switch towards moving to WIFI and these sorts of connections through internet connections instead of adding any cell towers, so that they can have a "new market" for bucks! So much for "common carrier" even for phone service down the road! This is the crap that we're fighting against folks!

[marym625]

22. another good point!

Down with "common carrier" UP WITH www.commoncause.org

Yeah, this can't happen. We'll be the laughing stock of the WORLD. Just wait until the Murdoch/Comcast version of Pravda comes out!

[Kelselsius]

25. This might work if it weren't for the fact that...

The government of the United States is now an Oligarchy.
Ever since Citizens United, there is no chance... ZERO CHANCE.. the government will care at all about what "We The People" want.
Study after study shows that only the rich can effect policy today. Even if 99% of the general population opposes something, if the top 1% want it, it will pass.
Sorry, I know this sounds pessimistic. But it's simply a fact.

This is a Princeton study that explains it in detail
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/Gilens%20homepage%20materials/Gilens%20and%20Page/Gilens%20and%20Page%202014-Testing%20Theories%203-7-14.pdf

[marym625]

27. that's depressing

I'm not going to pretend there aren't days I think there's no point. But we have to try. We roll over and die without a fight then we deserve to be ruled.

As soon as the Patriot Act passed, we hammered the first nail into the coffin

[rurallib]

26. mark to return to tomorrow

[marym625]

28. didn't see that option

but I will just go back.

Thank you

[Uncle Joe]

29. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, marym.

[marym625]

31. Thanks for the kick Uncle Joe

[woo me with science]

33. They don't care.

The scenery is down now.

[marym625]

35. Who doesn't care?