Please Help Save Net Neutrality NOW; Some Tools:

[snot]

Unless we make Congress stop them, the FCC will vote to END net neutrality 3 days from today.

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Please call your Congresscritters NOW, and keep calling ’til they groan when they see your number. You can call via https://www.callmycongress.com/ .

And email them, which you can do via https://www.battleforthenet.com/ .

And temporarily turn your own website into an ACTION page by ripping off the page at http://www.c-cyte.com/ or finding the components at https://www.battleforthenet.com/ .

And tweet up a storm. You can use these as tweets (edit as you like) and/or as talking points when you contact your Congresscritters:

ISP’s have repeatedly been caught abusing the power they’ve already got by censoring political or other content; see, e.g., https://listverse.com/2017/11/28/10-facts-that-show-exactly-whatll-happen-without-net-neutrality/ #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

There are many urgent issues for us to be concerned about right now, but the fact is that progress on ALL of them depends on our ability to communicate about them. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

One of the reasons the US Constitution protects not just the right of free speech but also the right of free assembly is that, before electronic communications, the public square was THE place where people could encounter other citizens in order to share new information and disparate points of view. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

After all, there’s not much point in having a first amendment if no one can hear you speak. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

Our most important “public squares” are now online. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

People in the US invented the internet, & US taxpayers funded its development, but our internet access is now among the slowest & most expensive in the developed world, because in the US, we’ve allowed ISP’s to acquire ownership of most of our net infrastructure, & we’veISP’s relatively lightly. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

History has shown time and again that allowing greater power to be concentrated in fewer hands is great for the few and terrible for the rest of us. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

The internet has become humanity’s central nervous system. We can’t afford to allow corporations whose main interests are to manipulate and exploit us to control our collective brain. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

Commerical antitrust law hasn’t protected the commercial marketplace from big corporations and it’s even less suited to protect a free marketplace of ideas. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

Net neutrality is what the American people want, and it’s what free people everywhere need. #SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

Nothing is inevitable, except defeat for those who give up without a fight.
– “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (1961), script by Irwin Allen & Charles Bennett
#SaveNetNeutrality #NetNeutralty #StopTheFCC #BattleForTheNet #BreakTheInternet

And please share this info everywhere – thanks!

[Egnever]

1. Thanks!

This has the potential to reshape our country. The importance of this can not be stressed loudly enough.

If we allow them to control the internet our voices will be silenced over time. It wont come at once it will be a slow drip that eventually leaves the internet under the control of largely republican owned media companies much like many of our existing media companies are controlled today. It will allow them to completely control the message, that should scare the crap out of everyone.

[samnsara]

2. OR text RESIST to 50409 to send your reps free faxes

[herding cats]

3. Kicking.

This is so damn important and it’s being forgotten by too many!

[CousinIT]

4. Thank you! n/t

[RandomAccess]

5. More ways to contact MoC

Call 24/7: 202-241-3121
Free Faxes (can incl up to 3 pages attached) to Senators: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php
Free Faxes (ditto) to House: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php
TEXT your faxes: Text RESIST to 50202
Write your MoC - DEMOCRACY.IO https://democracy.io/#/

[bdamomma]

6. K&R

[Jarqui]

7. I agree. Very important issue K&R

[Honeycombe8]

8. So...what are our Congress people supposed to do?

What are we asking for? Because I don't think Congress can intervene to stop the FCC from making rulings. Maybe they can overturn those later?

[snot]

9. Don't know the details, but everyone seems to agree that they have the power to stop the FCC.

We have nothing to lose by trying, much to gain if we succeed.