URGENT.. Last best hope for Net Neutrality. . no "slow lanes"

[annabanana]

https://openmedia.org/

Crunch time is here for net neutrality. Don't let them throttle the small sites!

Internet users have a new way to ensure their voice is heard, in the run-up to the FCC’s crucial net neutrality decision next week. Internet freedom group OpenMedia, backed by a huge coalition including Daily Kos, Roots Action, The Nation, Tumblr, and others will park a giant Jumbotron opposite FCC headquarters. The Jumbotron will stream messages and images submitted by Internet users through an online tool going live today at StopTheSlowdown.net.

The campaign aims to pressure the FCC to prevent telecom giants like Comcast and Verizon from creating slow lanes on the Internet. In recent months, over 5.1 million people have spoken out to protest this slow lane plan. The FCC will not accept formal comments from the public in the remaining time leading up to their February 26 decision, so the giant Jumbotron will be the most direct way people can reach them.

Please kick today...

[yeoman6987]

1. Would this be Worldwide? Seems we could use everyone

in the World to fight this mess.

[annabanana]

2. it will be as big as the telecoms can make it. . .. .n/t

[yeoman6987]

3. That is a frightening thought.

[onenote]

4. Setting a bad precedent imo

Every indication is that there are three votes for the application of title II to the Internet. The FCC has rules closing the docket from comment the week before a decision is made -- "a quiet period" -- to prevent one side or another from having undue influence at the last minute for which that can't be countered.

If Comcast or other big corporations that opposed net neutrality rules parked trucks blaring their message outside the FCC during the "quiet period" we'd be rightfully outraged. I think it sets a bad precedent (and will almost certainly have no substantive impact) for pro-net neutrality rules to try to circumvent the quiet period rule.