Signature needed: Urge these two Democratic FCC Commissioners to save net neutrality 2OKT14

THE official public comment period regarding FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's net neutrality rules is over but we can and must lobby the two other Democratic members of the FCC to make sure Chairmman Wheeler's proposal actually protects and preserves net neutrality and prevents isps from creating internet fast lanes that we will have to pay for and that will limit our access to whatever site we choose to access on the net. While the method and purpose will be different (Wheeler's proposal will make the isps richer and grant them gatekeeper authority of the net) the overall effect of Wheeler's proposal with be a restricted, censored and manipulated internet that will be used to make the rich richer and give corporate America even more control over our daily lives. Please click the link and send your letter to Commissioners Rosenworcel and Clyburn demanding they defend and only vote for a free and open internet. From +Daily Kos and Demand Progress.....
Craig, over the past few months, we’ve been talking a lot about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his net neutrality proposal, but we should be clear that the decision is not his alone to make.

Chairman Wheeler will need two votes to enact net neutrality rules and they will need to come from Democratic Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn because the needed votes won’t be coming from the Republican Commissioners.

This presents us and the Commissioners with a real opportunity to push for the right net neutrality rules with solid legal authority to prevent the ISPs from creating paid prioritization on internet “fast lanes.”

Please, join Daily Kos and Demand Progress to sign and send a message to Commissioners Clyburn and Rosenworcel urging them to strengthen the current proposal before it comes to a vote. We must give these Commissioners all of the support they need to push for the right net neutrality rules.

Both of these Commissioners have voiced concern about the current proposal. Both of these commissioners has a proven record of public service. And, both commissioners attended a public forum in Sacramento hosted by Rep. Doris Matsui to listen to concerns about the current proposal (while Chairman Wheeler was notably absent).

Both of these Commissioners can become our net neutrality champions.

Please, join Daily Kos and Demand Progress to send a message to FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn urging them to do the right thing on net neutrality by getting Chairman Tom Wheeler to treat ISPs as common carriers under Title II authority. 

Signature needed: Urge these two Democratic FCC Commissioners to save net neutrality

Over the past few months, we’ve been talking a lot about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and his net neutrality proposal, but we should be clear that the decision is not his alone to make. Chairman Wheeler will need two votes to enact net neutrality rules and they will need to come from Democratic Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn because the needed votes won’t be coming from the Republican Commissioners.

This presents us and the Commissioners with a real opportunity to push for the right net neutrality rules with solid legal authority under Title II of the Telecommunications Act to prevent the ISPs from creating paid prioritization on internet “fast lanes.”

Both of these Commissioners have voiced concern about the current proposal. Both of these commissioners has a proven record of public service. And, both commissioners attended a public forum in Sacramento hosted by Rep. Doris Matsui to listen to concerns about the current proposal—notably absent was Chairman Wheeler.

Both of these Commissioners can become our net neutrality champions.

Please, join Daily Kos and Demand Progress to send a message to FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn urging them to do the right thing on net neutrality by getting Chairman Tom Wheeler to treat ISPs as common carriers under Title II authority.  

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Senior Campaign Director, Daily Kos

Tell the FCC: Give us net neutrality and stop the Comcast Time Warner merger & Battle for the Net: Write and send your comment to the FCC urging them to preserve net neutrality before 15SEP14

15 SEP 14 is the deadline for public comment to the FCC / Federal Communications Commission on the proposed new rules regarding the internet and net neutrality. If the ISPs / Internet Service Providers, like verizon, comcast, aol, cox, at&t and time warner to name a few, get their way they will take over the internet and be allowed to regulate the speed with which we are able to access everything on the net based on how much we pay. Be assured it will not be cheap, these companies are not interested if fair and equal access for all to the internet, they are greedy and will increase fees for internet access to everything and if you don't pay for premium access you will be restricted to the slow lane on the net. Here is your chance to submit your comments to the FCC before 15 SEP, hope you do and that you share this with others. From +Daily Kos ....

Tell the FCC: Give us net neutrality and stop the Comcast Time Warner merger

Today (4 SEP 14), in a major speech about the future of broadband, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler somehow managed to avoid talking about net neutrality.

Given the topic of the speech, and the looming September 15 deadline for public comments on proposed FCC net neutrality rules, it’s concerning that he still has not come out in favor of protecting an open internet.

With September 15 approaching fast, it’s time to keep piling on the pressure. Tell the FCC to protect real net neutrality. Let Tom Wheeler know he can't avoid us.

Wheeler's speech focused mainly on how to expand access to and promote competition in the broadband marketplace--which sounds great. But, he also talked himself in circles, leaving us to wonder: Will he use Title II common carrier status to protect net neutrality and make the internet a public utility available to all? Will he deny the proposed mega-merger of Comcast and Time Warner?

If Wheeler truly wants to expand broadband and increase competition, this is his path:

• Use Title II authority to promote broadband expansion and to prevent Big Telecom from creating fast and slow lanes on the internet.
• Reject the Comcast Time Warner merger. If you want to promote competition, you don’t allow 2 of the 4 national broadband providers to merge.

Please, take a moment to sign and send a personal comment to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging him to do the right thing.

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer
Campaign Director, Daily Kos

Battle for the Net: Write and send your comment to the FCC urging them to preserve net neutrality

September 15 marks the end of the public comment period at the FCC about the proposed net neutrality rules, which threaten the internet as we know it.

As the proposed rules stand, Big Cable and Telecom providers will legally be able to control the speed of service—including creating a fast lane for corporations, and slowing-down service to independent sites—like Daily Kos, to outright blocking content they don’t want on their networks. Fundamentally, we are in a fight to determine who controls the internet—people or corporations.

We can’t let this happen—which is why we are embroiled in the Battle for the Net.

We need you to help us win by presenting record-breaking numbers of unique public comments. Will you take a few minutes of your time to write a completely unique comment below, in your own words expressing why we need to preserve net neutrality on the internet? This unique expression is the most important way for you to make an impact at the FCC.

If you need some background, here it is:

Net neutrality has been the default state of the internet since its invention—internet service providers load all websites at the same speed. Now, Big Telecom wants to change the rules so they can extract more money from websites by making them pay to be served to customers at faster speeds.

In order to preserve net neutrality, the FCC needs to ban Big Telecom from creating these so-called “fast-lanes” which only large companies could afford. Start-ups and independent sites like Daily Kos would be left behind and crushed.

The FCC has tried protecting net neutrality twice before, and been defeated by Big Telecom in court both times. In order to legally prevent Big Telecom from destroying net neutrality once again, the FCC should assert authority it already has under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1934 to regulate the internet as a public utility. This legal argument offers the most protection for real net neutrality to prevent ISPs from controlling content speed and blocking websites.

After a meeting with Chairman Wheeler in May, he told us that he pays the most attention to hand crafted comments in the docket which share personal experiences. Right now, net neutrality has already received an impressive percentage of personal comment. We need you to add to that number.

Join the growing number of organizations, businesses, and people who are committed to battle for the open internet.

Please use the form below to write and send the FCC your personal story and thoughts about why an open internet, free from corporate control by AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast, and Verizon is essential to your life. Original, personal emails are basically the only public comments Chairman Wheeler takes seriously. (These comments will be part of a public record).

---

Below are a few writing prompts for you, if you need some inspiration. But please don't send exactly what we have suggested. The most important thing is that the email comes from you, in your words, to urge Chairman Wheeler to protect real net neutrality.

How do you feel about allowing Big Telecom to extract more money from companies that operate on the internet and allowing Internet Service Providers to make deals that would prioritize content consumers can access?

Are you a student, educator, business owner, tele-health user, or any other person that depends on the internet?

Are you concerned about the first amendment implications of prioritizing, blocking, or slowing down access to information on the internet?

Why are you concerned about a pay-to-play internet arrangement with Big Telecom as gatekeepers? Tell the FCC why net neutrality is important to you.

Links to look at: Net Neutrality: How did we get here and where do we go now, This 13-year-old wants you to help save the internet, John Oliver on net neutrality "Call it preventing cable company f***ery", and FCC Chair Wheeler's convoluted path to net neutrality

Sold! To the highest bidder! Tell the FCC: Don’t Let the ISPs Sell Free Speech 24MAI14

THE battle to keep the internet free and open is growing in intensity, and the ACLU is asking all of us to send a message to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to protect net neutrality, not to sell it to the highest bidder, to not allow ISPs sell free speech. Click the link to submit your comments, even if you have already submitted comments. We must overwhelm the FCC with our demands that Net Neutrality be honored and protected. 

		Tell the FCC we won't stand for an Internet for sale.

Internet Service Providers want to line their pockets by selling preferential treatment to corporations—all at your expense.

Last week, the FCC proposed so-called ‘net neutrality’ rules that would allow ISPs like Verizon and Comcast to charge more for an Internet ‘fast lane.’

If the FCC rules go through, the Internet is going to be sold to the highest bidder. An Internet ‘fast lane’ will influence our access to news and public debate, and it will weaken our democracy through the manipulation of Internet traffic and free speech.

This is a critical moment for net neutrality. The FCC says they’ll listen to public opinion before they issue their final rules in four months. So the more of our voices they hear, the more likely they’ll hear what we’re saying.

Will you tell the FCC we won’t stand for an Internet for sale?

Profit-seeking broadband providers don’t like to treat everyone equally. Discriminating against competing services or charging more to deliver some content faster than others helps boost their bottom line.

In most markets, Americans have few options for where to get their broadband service. This lack of competition means that ISPs can act as gatekeepers. And you will pay the price. True net neutrality—an open Internet—is the idea that Internet Service Providers must treat all traffic equally. That’s the Internet we know—the one where all voices have an equal shot at being heard.

We can protect the Internet from naked profit seeking. If enough ACLU supporters join force, we can push the FCC to do the right thing and issue rules to preserve the democratic nature of the Internet.

Sign our petition now telling FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler we don’t want an Internet ‘fast lane’ that jeopardizes our access to information.

Thanks for taking action,
Anthony for the ACLU Action team

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