To: FCC Chairman Wheeler
FCC: Stop killing net neutrality!
Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former cable lobbyist, has revealed proposed new rules -- drafted by himself -- that would end net neutrality! Big corporations would pay for faster delivery of their content, making it difficult for smaller operations to compete.
Tell Chairman Wheeler and the rest of the Federal Communications Commission: we want action for democratic media, not platitudes as smokescreens for corporate domination of the Internet.
Tell Chairman Wheeler and the rest of the Federal Communications Commission: we want action for democratic media, not platitudes as smokescreens for corporate domination of the Internet.
Why is this important?
Last week, the news broke that the FCC intends to blow us off and betray the principle of equal access to the Internet. We need to stop them.
Later this month they'll meet to start working on a new regulation that would allow Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Verizon to make it relatively harder for us to access other content -- and make it easier for us to access content whose owners (big corporations) pay them fees.
Big corporations that can afford to pay fees will finally have taken over the Internet -- just like they have TV, radio, and newspapers. And it'll be harder for independent businesses, artists, news outlets, and activists like us to survive.
We need to pressure the FCC to scrap this plan and start over, by implementing real open Internet rules that treat everybody equally and fairly and don't tilt the Internet in ways that benefit big corporations.
Later this month they'll meet to start working on a new regulation that would allow Internet Service Providers like Comcast and Verizon to make it relatively harder for us to access other content -- and make it easier for us to access content whose owners (big corporations) pay them fees.
Big corporations that can afford to pay fees will finally have taken over the Internet -- just like they have TV, radio, and newspapers. And it'll be harder for independent businesses, artists, news outlets, and activists like us to survive.
We need to pressure the FCC to scrap this plan and start over, by implementing real open Internet rules that treat everybody equally and fairly and don't tilt the Internet in ways that benefit big corporations.