Urge President Obama: Honor your pledge to preserve an open internet 16MAI14

THE campaigning for NET NEUTRALITY, a FREE AND OPEN INTERNET is on. Here is the first of many petitions and comment opportunities to sign on. Keep in mind, you can sign more than one petition. You can submit more than one comment. We have to overwhelm the government and the FCC with out demands the FCC keep the internet free, that the FCC defend Net Neutrality and the FCC reject and ban internet service providers "fast lane" prioritization. Click, sign and share.....

Please sign and send the petition to President Obama asking that he honor his pledge to preserve an open internet by demanding real net neutrality rules from his appointee, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Click here to sign and send.

For seven years, President Obama has been on record as a supporter of net neutrality. Here is what he said at a 2007 public forum in Coe, Iowa, when he was running for president:

"I am a strong supporter of Net neutrality...What you've been seeing is some lobbying that says that the servers and the various portals through which you're getting information over the Internet should be able to be gatekeepers and to charge different rates to different Websites...so you could get much better quality from the Fox News site and you'd be getting rotten service from the mom and pop sites...And that I think destroys one of the best things about the Internet--which is that there is this incredible equality there."

This sounds like the exact opposite of what FCC Chairman—and Obama appointee—Tom Wheeler is proposing in his latest version of net neutrality rules, which allow “gatekeepers” to charge different rates for access to consumers on “fast and slow lanes.”

Sign and send the petition urging President Obama to add his voice to the fight to save the internet.

President Obama is partly responsible for this debacle––he appointed a former telecom lobbyist as FCC Chairman, who is now offering rules that would greatly favor those same telecom cronies he formerly worked with.

President Obama needs to make this right––for the future of the internet and his legacy.

The answer is simple: Strong net neutrality rules, free from data discrimination, based on Title II authority of the Telecommunications Act of 1934 so they won't be overturned in court.

Please sign and send the petition to President Obama: Honor your pledge to preserve an open internet by publicly demanding real net neutrality rules with strong legal standing from your appointee, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos