As a student, I use many sources on the internet for my homework. If I had to pay for content on my limited budget, it would impact my ability to access content and impact the quality of my work. Not only would it impact me, but thousands of other students and academic researchers too. The quality of education would suffer and our ability to be competitive with other countries would decline as well. Please do not let this happen!

I work as an advocate to help the poor and homeless obtain identity documents. My experience has shown me what a critical step this is for people to obtain self sufficiency or even services of any kind.

Suffering from MS makes access to the latest in research important, period!

I run a blog and a website. I am very much a tech amateur, but want to make available for discussion my ideas in an amusing, yet provocative way. I want others to be able to do the same. We MUST, in our small, many-voiced way, counter the nasty, soulless and greedy culture of "corporatocracy" that enslaves minds.

I have recovered from a debilitating, chronic illness called chronic fatigue syndrome because I was able to find other recovering people on the Internet who taught me how to take charge of my health. Big business would never do that. Big hearts and free speech did it through Internet access.

I work part-time for a non-profit for a senior program providing resources and information. If we allow Comcast and Verizon to move on and leave all of us behind, it would be devastating.

I use the internet to inform myself when I need to make decisions, for entertainment, and to stay in touch with my grown children, grandchildren and friends. Working at a non-profit special education school, my income has not kept pace with the cost of living, since my state sets the rates we charge for our services, and often allows no increase at all. My pay has been eroded over the years, but the cost of internet and cable TV have continued to rise, despite "introductory" rate deals for new customers. I recently dropped cable TV to reduce my costs, and pay to stream what I want to watch. Verizon and Comcast are the only options for high speed internet service where I live, and I was shocked to find out how much they are charging without any competition. Please curb this virtual monopoly, and ensure that all Americans have affordable access to information and entertainment.

I was on CA state unemployment benefits for 26 weeks after losing my job last year, then was on federal unemployment for 2 weeks, then that was cut off when the federal government cut off federal unemployment benefits for everyone at the end of Dec 2013. I have survived on savings and some contract work, but many people have exhausted all their savings and all their options. There are now 1.5 million unemployed people in California, with over half not receiving any safety-net benefits at all. There are not enough jobs for all the people who want them. We need to create many hundreds of thousands of jobs, but as an emergency measure we need to throw people a lifeline and extend their state UI benefits. Having so many unemployed with no safety net is a terrible drag on the California economy. People are losing their personal savings, retirement savings, cars, ability to pay utilities, and some have even lost their houses. These all damage our communities. This can all be prevented, if we want it to. And, unemployment benefits return $1.49 for every $1 spent, so it's a very good investment.

I am a programmer for the government and an Ebay seller, so a fair and fast Internet is essential to my livelihood and quality of life. Don't allow companies such as Verizon and AT&T to give preference to some and slow it down for the rest of us.

To bring about knowledge of the blatant distruction of our POLLINATORS and how important it is we STOP big companies from destroying our future for profit.

I run a start-up company with little capital. I believe my potential customers will be drawn away from my site if it is much slower than sites of larger companies who can afford the higher price of a faster Internet.

I depend on the internet for almost every facet of my daily life--from work to taking care of my family to paying bills, etc. Without access to the internet (or with a slower internet) I would not be able to do a lot of things that living life on-the-go necessitates. I keep in touch with family and friends; attend school; do research and, transact business with creditors and my business clients. The internet is the most valuable resource for my family and myself.