THE 2014 MID TERM ELECTION IS OVER, THE FIGHT FOR A FREE, OPEN INTERNET GOES ON AND WHEELER HAS BETRAYED US! 4NOV14

THE latest proposal from FCC chairman tom wheeler is a betrayal of his office's responsibility to represent the best interest of all the American people and not just the wealthy and the big corporate telecom and mainstream media. Click the link and tell Pres Obama to reign in chairman wheeler and defend and maintain an open and free internet. From +Daily Kos .....

We fought tooth and nail this election to match Koch-power with people-power. At Daily Kos, doing so would not have been possible without an equal, open Internet. So we need you to take a minute to pay attention to a development that could destroy our ability to make people power heard in future elections.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is betraying us. Last week, he floated a terrible new proposal that will divide the internet into different internets and would allow big corporations to pay for their websites to load faster.

This would crush grassroots communities like Daily Kos, which couldn't afford pay Big Telecom for our website to load faster. Corporate media outlets like Fox News would be the only news left.

Sign and send a petition to the White House demanding President Obama reign in Tom Wheeler before he ruins the internet by handing it over to Big Telecom.

President Obama has explicitly said he is against paid prioritization:

But what I've been clear about, what the White House has been clear about, is that we expect whatever final rules to emerge to make sure that we're not creating two or three or four tiers of internet. That ends up being a big priority of mine.

President Obama must intervene. Chairman Wheeler’s proposal is a travesty—it’s legally unsound, and will ruin the way we interact with the internet. Further, Wheeler only extends Title II protections to half of the internet--and it's not the consumer half, so he's leaving us out in the cold.

Wheeler must be stopped. Please, please send an email to the White House demanding that President Obama exert his influence to change the fake net neutrality rules Chairman Tom Wheeler is reportedly pursuing.

We only have a few weeks to fix this before the vote happens. We must push hard through December.

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos


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