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Call Congress: Demand REAL Net Neutrality!
http://act.freepress.net/call/internet_congress_nn/?t=1&referring_akid=4742.8909772.MhdcwM
This is what happens when you mess with the Internet.
Reports of the FCC's proposal to kill Net Neutrality have led to an online uproar. And the pressure is working. Two FCC commissioners recently raised doubts about Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan. And hundreds of Internet companies and organizations — including Amazon, Consumers Union, Facebook, Free Press, Google, MoveOn and Twitter — also came out against the FCC's plans.
Chairman Wheeler is feeling the heat, but we need to keep the pressure on. And Congress can help.
Please call your members of Congress and urge them to support real Net Neutrality. It's easy and takes only a few minutes.
We need to make sure the FCC hears from everyone about how disastrous its new proposal is.
So grab your phone, call Congress and let us know how it goes.
We've got a week to turn this around and our members of Congress need to be part of this fight.
Thanks so much—
Candace, Josh and the rest of the Free Press Action Fund team
http://www.freepress.net
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DEMAND PROGRESS
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/fcc_net_neutrality/?source=demandprogress_website
Yesterday, 3 judges dismantled the open Internet by deciding that big companies should be able to determine what we see online.
They struck down “Net Neutrality” – the principle that no corporation or state authority can censor, slow down, block, or privilege certain content on the web. It's the basis for what has made the Internet a place for creativity, free speech, and innovation.
Without Net Neutrality, the very startups that make the Internet a force of innovation will be throttled – unable to compete with incumbent businesses that can pay to provide their access faster than any startup could.
Carriers can now charge content providers to make sure their content works well – something that privileges companies already dominating the market at the expense of the startups that have made the Internet great. Facebook or Google might be able to afford preferential treatment – but what about the startup that otherwise could replace them?
It’s incredibly insidious, and it threatens to take away the level playing field that’s made the Internet such an incredible boon for society.
The FCC, however, has the power to protect Net Neutrality – if they classify broadband as a communications service, something we all know it is with all the time we spend communicating with friends and loved ones via e-mail and social media, they’ll have the power to reinstate Net Neutrality rules.
PETITION TO THE FCC: We urge you to assert your authority and restore your Net Neutrality rules now!
We’ve fought to save Net Neutrality before, and we’re going to save it this time, too. Together we will protect the Internet.
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FCC: Protect Net Neutrality and the Open Internet
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