An open internet is important so that I can get information about my company and its products out to our customers and employees effectively.

I have personally reinvented myself in order to provide for my children while staying at home with them while they're young. I would not have been able to do so without the Internet. I have prospected, I have connected with people around the world. I have personally launched a campaign to find my missing sister of 33 years. I have been contacted by people worldwide to sell goods based on my Internet reputation, built from the ground up. I have appeared on Food Network's Chopped, likely as a result of a well-timed email and a personal blog I created. All of this is very important to me. What ever happened to the breakup of Ma Bell? If we don't learn from the past, we're doomed to repeat it. Please come to your senses. History will replay itself if you let this happen. Share this. Get the word out. Make sure people know what may happen to the internet - as a result of inaction from people like you - and me! Thank you for your support!

An open internet is a lifeline for my everyday livelihood. I say this because my only life communication is through the open internet. So, this idea of charging high ridiculous fees is preposterous. Especially being on a poor mans budget.

The internet allows me to get online professional journals, medical updates, health information; join professional health organizations; get job leads; participate in health webinars. Personally, it links me to family and members of my congregation. Most of my peer-friends are elders like me and having this electronic connection--without high costs--is very important in our lives.

I am about to graduate from school with a degree in videography, and the Internet is my best source of freelance work. This change will make my portfolio website nearly invisible. How am I supposed to find work then?

The Transparent Airfares Act of 2014 sounds like much-needed reform for greater consumer protection. It's actually a bait-and-switch to let airlines bury tax spikes in their ticket price.

As a disabled person, this was my main daily link to the outside world. If my legs hurt too much to get up, my wife can bring her laptop in to me, and I can see what is happening in the world and contact others.

As an IT Professional, an open Internet is important for my day-to-day work where I research technical issues, often finding answers on free blogs and forums. As a person with fibromyalgia and a spouse to an MS patient, an open Internet is important to me as a medium for support networks and medical articles.

Companies like Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and others want to create a closed off Internet with restrictions to websites that they see as a threat to profit. They want to restrict access to knowledge and free information that we all have benefited from and that we all want the next generation to enjoy. I am a child of the Internet age and a free and open Internet has been my access to the world. No other time in history has humanity had access to such knowledge.

I use the internet to stay up to date on news and stay connected to my friends and family. I also buy things online that I can't get elsewhere. Professionally, I use it to access important educational material for my practical knowledge and to help my patients. Net neutrality is paramount to keeping the internet an equal opportunity medium for accessing information and subsequent empowerment.

As a special education teacher, I constantly use the internet for special education sites, downloadable books, and many other educational resources. An open internet is vital for my line of work.

An open internet allows world citizens to speak "truth to power." True democracy does not flourish in environments where profit and greed supercede the right to information. Dr. Newell Canfield