2014 Elections and Net Neutrality
I received this email today:
Dear Fight for the Future member,
Bad news. It really doesn’t seem like the Obama administration is listening to us. It seems like, despite years of promises, they’ve sold out to big cable and settled on a fake net neutrality rule that’s built to fail.
Are you angry? We are. Click here to hit back.
According to latest reports, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is determined to let cable companies extort websites with fees and kill the best stuff online. Wheeler is a former cable lobbyist. Obama picked him to protect the public (!?) and still refuses to demote him. Ugh.
We no longer feel like we’re looking at an administration that wants to do the right thing. This looks like simple corruption. And–since this administration has promised net neutrality to their voters, volunteers and donors, again and again–it’s hypocrisy too.
So we feel that we have a choice: keep playing nice and assuming their nice words will actually amount to something… or hit them where it hurts.
There is an election on Tuesday. Obama’s party could lose, hard. At this point, they deserve to.
Click here to help some corrupt Senators lose this Tuesday.
We’ve put together a list of Senators in Obama’s party, in close races. Most of them are top recipients of campaign contributions from the cable lobby.
Alongside each, we’ve put a simple link to a Facebook search. Click it, copy the message below, and paste it to each of your friends in a new message. This way, we can focus all the energy of this list onto a few politically crucial states.
You ready? Here are a few links to start. It’s fun when you get into it. With each message, you’re raining justice down on an administration (and party) that talks big and delivers little.
Tell your Facebook friends in North Carolina to vote against Kay Hagan
Please, don’t vote for Kay Hagan. She took $46,650 from the cable lobby in 2014, and her party is about to let cable companies destroy the open Internet, by slowing and extorting popular sites.
Tell your Facebook friends in Alaska to vote against Mark Begich
Please, don’t vote for Mark Begich. He took $75,700 from the cable lobby in 2014, and his party is about to let cable companies destroy the open Internet, by slowing and extorting popular sites.
Tell your Facebook friends in New Hampshire to vote against Jeanne Shaheen
Please, don’t vote for Jeanne Shaheen. She took $50,400 from the cable lobby in 2014, and her party is about to let cable companies destroy the open Internet, by slowing and extorting popular sites.
So yeah. That’s just to get started. Go to obamasinternet.com for more, and try your best to spread this meme: when it comes to protecting the Internet, Obama's party deserves to lose on Tuesday.
Thanks for being committed and strategic! Sincerely,
– Holmes Wilson, Kevin Huang, Evan Greer, Tiffiniy Cheng, Jeff Lyon & the whole Fight for the Future team
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An important P.S.– Normally we don’t get involved in electoral politics as an organization. And some of us suffer personally from Republican policies too. But when you’re in a fight for something you care about, against a stronger opponent, you’ve got to be able to bring consequences down on politicians who say they’re “on your side” …when it turns out they aren’t. Every cause we can think of depends on a free and open Internet. We’re serious about fighting for it. Whatever your politics, we hope you understand where we’re coming from and can dive in.
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Thoughts? (I was shocked.)
