My mother used to say, "If they can figure a way to charge you for the
air you breathe, they'll do it!"
Carl Jarvis
From:
David Segal,
Demand Progress
The FCC just voted to kill net neutrality.
Trump FCC chair Ajit Pai sided with his former bosses at Verizon over
the millions of people demanding that net neutrality rules stay in
place.
But if he thinks we're done fighting to save the free and open
internet, he's dead wrong.
Congress has the power to overturn Pai's repeal of net neutrality, and
we're leading the charge to make sure that our representatives step
in—starting
by driving hundreds of thousands of calls to Congress to demand that
the FCC vote be overturned. And for the members of Congress who stand
with Comcast
and against their constituents, we'll make sure the voters back home
know about it.
After working so long and hard for net neutrality, today's vote comes
as a gut punch for all of us.
But we can't give up now, because there's simply too much at stake.
The internet as we know it will disappear. Comcast, Verizon, and ATT
will be allowed
to throttle internet speeds and force people to pay exorbitant
premiums to stay off their "slow lane."
Startups and small businesses will be drowned out by billion-dollar
corporations, and ISPs will be allowed to block sites altogether if
they view them
as competition or just disagree with their politics.1 Comcast could
decide tomorrow to block access to Skype because it has its own
video-chat client.
Verizon could drop access to CNN in order to push viewers to Fox News.
Net neutrality isn't just about what we pay for the internet—it's
about upholding our democratic society.
Ajit Pai may not care about the 22 million comments to the FCC that
were overwhelmingly in favor of net neutrality, or the more than 700
protests across
the country last week to stop the FCC's attack on the internet, or
that 83% of Americans opposed his plan to repeal Title II.2 But if we
take that outrage
to Washington, D.C., we can force Congress to care.
Congress has the power to overturn the FCC vote, and we're going to
make sure that our representatives stand up for net neutrality.