What if slow Gmail is just the start? Tell the FCC: Preserve Net Neutrality! 26JAN14

THE internet shouldn't be for sale to the highest bidder, but right now it is thanks to a recent court ruling in a case started by verizon. Please sign this petition from ACLU Action and share with family, friends and coworkers...

The Internet can now be sold to the highest bidder. Tell the FCC to do its job and preserve net neutrality. Have you ever received a notice like this: Dear Broadband Customer, Sorry your requested website is loading slowly—Sony Music Entertainment has purchased today’s hi-speed Comcast bandwidth and it seems you are not within their target demographic. To remedy this, please select a Miley Cyrus video to watch or try loading your New York Times article again tomorrow. Well time is running out—if we don’t act now, we may start seeing this all the time. That’s because a federal appeals court just struck down the FCC’s rules that until now have prevented Internet providers from blocking or slowing down some website content and speeding up other content. In order to boost their profits, Internet Service Providers like Verizon and Comcast can now charge websites extra fees to send us their content at a faster speed. And nothing is stopping them from blocking content they don’t like altogether. In this unregulated environment, the Internet may quickly be sold to the highest bidder, chilling the free speech we now enjoy online. The good news is that the court’s ruling left the door open for the FCC to fix all of this by reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service: Sign the petition now telling the FCC to keep the Internet open and defend ‘net neutrality’. This Thursday, we’re going to march down to the FCC office with our friends at Free Press, Demand Progress, and other organizations to deliver hundreds of thousands of petitions calling on the FCC to keep the Internet free from the heavy hand of profits and corporate objectives. Time and again the FCC has given in to furious corporate lobbying and has failed to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service—the one thing that would ensure our equal access to all that the Internet has to offer. We need to speak louder than corporate interests, and if ACLU supporters join this fight, we can push the FCC to do the right thing. This is a fight to preserve the democratic nature of the Internet itself, let’s make sure we win. Join hundreds of thousands of activists and sign the petition now calling on the FCC to do its job and preserve the openness of the Internet. Thanks for taking action, Anthony for the ACLU Action team