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Next Step To Save The Internet: Call For Regional Hearings

July 24, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Petitions and Online Actions FCC, Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Our next step is to demand that the FCC commissioners come out of their federal building that is infected with corporate lobbyists and actually listen to the people. How do they do that? They hold hearings around the country where people have an opportunity to fully talk to the commissioners. It's been more than five years since all five FCC commissioners left Washington to meet with the public in an official capacity. Net Neutrality is the hottest issue the agency has dealt with in almost a decade. People like you and me have a lot to say about the open Internet and the FCC needs to hear it. Join us in calling the FCC to hold hearings outside of Washington, DC where they hear from the people. Tell the FCC to get out of Washington and hold a public hearing in your community. Click hear to join our call for public hearings.

More Than One Million Comment On Net Neutrality

July 18, 2014 Brenda Barron, www.venturebeat.com Organize! Democracy, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received more than 1 million comments about net neutrality via its website and via email. The actual total is 1,030,000 comments, and most are prodding the FCC to protect net neutrality for all. An Internet without such neutrality is one that can be divided into so-called “fast” and “slow” lanes, to use a much-debated but common metaphor. To gain access to optimum speeds on certain sites, subscribers would have to pay a premium fee. The uproar began in earnest this March, when the FCC approved a proposal that would allow ISPs to charge companies that use a lot of data a higher rate to assure high-quality service. Netflix is a primary example of this. After tomorrow, the reply comments phase will begin and will last until September 10. This isn’t the first time the public has contacted the FCC en masse to request it maintain an open Internet that isn’t restricted by ISPs looking to make a profit. Though the FCC has received more comments about various issues in the past (Janet Jackson’s nipple, anyone?), this is by far the largest number of comments that have been formally registered via official FCC procedures. So many people wanted to submit comments that the FCC site buckled under all of the traffic back in June. This led to the FCC to extend the period of time allowed for public comments.

Net Neutrality Now A “Bandwagon”, Most Comments Ever!

July 17, 2014 Kate Tummarello and Julian Hattem, www.thehill.com Organize! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Netflix

Netflix is taking up the once-unpopular position that the federal government should consider regulating Internet providers like it regulates traditional telephone companies, despite the political fight that could ensue. In a filing to the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, the online video company said the agency should consider reclassifying Internet providers as “Title II” common carriers — which would give the agency broader legal authority to regulate them — as it rewrites its net neutrality rules. While reclassification has been generally considered an uphill political battle — and House Republicans have floated legislation that would prohibit the FCC from reclassifying — the agency is facing more and more pressure from lawmakers, companies and public interest groups to do so. “Opposition to Title II is largely political, not legal,” Netflix wrote in its comments, urging the agency to adopt classifications that “better sync with the actual experience of consumers.”

FCC Computer System Crashes Due To Net Neutrality Comments

July 16, 2014 Eliza Molk, www.freepress.net Organize! Democracy, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

So many people inundated the FCC’s electronic filing system with comments about Chairman Tom Wheeler’s pay-to-play Internet proposal that the site crashed this morning. But that didn’t faze advocates of an open and nondiscriminatory Internet. This afternoon, dozens of representatives from groups including Free Press, the ACLU, Common Cause, Demand Progress, MAG-Net, the Media Mobilizing Project and reddit went to the FCC to hand-deliver hundreds of thousands of comments from their members. Groups also delivered comments from the Center for Media Justice, CREDO, Daily Kos, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engine Advocacy, Fight for the Future, MoveOn, Mozilla, OpenMedia International, Popular Resistance and Voices for Internet Freedom. Folks carried huge stacks of papers into the FCC while others held “Save the Internet” signs outside as agency staff filed the comments.

Net Neutrality Biggest Issue Ever Before FCC — By Far!

July 16, 2014 Craig Aaron, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Millions have urged the FCC to put in place net neutrality. By the end of the day on July 15, the FCC had received more than 780,000 public comments on its Net Neutrality-killing proposal -- a huge number that would have been much higher if the agency's site hadn't broken down repeatedly (forcing the FCC to extend the comment deadline until midnight on Friday). Within two weeks of the January federal appeals court decision to toss out the agency's open Internet rules, Free Press and a coalition of allies delivered 1 million petitions for strong Net Neutrality protections to the FCC. By the time the FCC voted to put out new rules for public comment on May 15, another 2.4 million people had taken action for real Net Neutrality. Many more have spoken out since then. But this week's deadline is just the first round. The FCC welcomes reply comments until September. And the public can and should keep weighing in until the agency actually votes on new rules, which isn't expected to happen until November or December at the earliest. Here's the bottom line: By any measure, this marks the greatest public response to any rulemaking in the FCC's history.

Spy Agencies Have Tools To Manipulate Internet

July 15, 2014 Glenn Greenwald, www.firstlook.org Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Privacy, Surveillance

The secretive British spy agency GCHQ has developed covert tools to seed the internet with false information, including the ability to manipulate the results of online polls, artificially inflate pageview counts on web sites, “amplif[y]” sanctioned messages on YouTube, and censor video content judged to be “extremist.” The capabilities, detailed in documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, even include an old standby for pre-adolescent prank callers everywhere: A way to connect two unsuspecting phone users together in a call. The tools were created by GCHQ’s Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG), and constitute some of the most startling methods of propaganda and internet deception contained within the Snowden archive. Previously disclosed documents have detailed JTRIG’s use of “fake victim blog posts,” “false flag operations,” “honey traps” and psychological manipulation to target online activists, monitor visitors to WikiLeaks, and spy on YouTube and Facebook users.

Investors Urge FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

July 15, 2014 Open Mic, www.openmic.org Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Shareholder activism

A group of investment firms and foundations with widely-diversified investment portfolios today called upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt network neutrality rules that would protect an open Internet. They recommended reclassification of broadband Internet service under Title II of the Communications Act, giving the FCC clear regulatory authority over the Internet network infrastructure that serves millions of individuals, entrepreneurs and established businesses throughout the U.S. Network neutrality is the principle that all Internet content and applications should be treated equally regardless of the source. It prohibits blocking and discrimination and bars Internet service providers from offering paid priority “fast lanes” for some content. “We believe open Internet policies help drive the economy, encourage innovation and reward investors,” the group said. The FCC filing highlighted the importance of network neutrality rules for start-up and technology companies as well as small and medium-sized businesses and companies that address critical needs such as healthcare, education and banking.

Major Internet Corporations Call For Net Neutrality

July 15, 2014 Educate! Corporations, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The Internet Association today submitted its comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging Commissioners to take strong and decisive action to guarantee an open Internet for the future. The Internet Association’s comments mark the first time that more than two dozen of the world’s most-recognizable and successful Internet companies have spoken with a unified voice on the issue of Net Neutrality. “Segregation of the Internet into fast lanes and slow lanes will distort the market, discourage innovation and harm Internet users,” said Michael Beckerman, President and CEO of The Internet Association. “The FCC must act to create strong, enforceable net neutrality rules and apply them equally to both wireless and wireline providers. The Internet Association’s comments to the FCC can be distilled into three key tenets necessary to secure and preserve an open Internet for the future: 1. Internet Users Should Get What They Want, When They Want It The Internet should be free from censorship, discrimination and anticompetitive behavior, protected by simple and enforceable rules that ensure a consumer’s equal access to the content they want.

Join Us To Tell FCC: ‘The Internet Is A Common Carrier’

July 10, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, , www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Democracy, Economic Democracy, FCC, Internet, Internet Freedom, Media

This is not the time for expedience or for working within the confines of what is perceived as politically possible. This rulemaking is about the future of the most important communication tool in history. The Internet already has tremendous economic, social, cultural and political impact and will have an even greater impact in all of those areas in the future. Popular Resistance urges the FCC to reclassify the Internet Under Title II as a Common Carrier so real net neutrality rules can be put in place and we can be assured that the Internet will remain an Open Internet with equal access for all and no discrimination. Only in this way can the full potential of the Internet be realized.

Kickstarter Explains Why FCC Must Protect Internet

July 5, 2014 Yancey Strickler, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The world was introduced to Kickstarter when our Web site went live in 2009. But the idea had been around much longer: Company co-founder Perry Chen came up with it in 2001. The eight intervening years were spent doggedly trying to overcome the many obstacles that stood in its way. One thing we didn’t have to worry about: access to the Internet. We didn’t have to negotiate a deal with a cable company or other Internet service provider (ISP). We didn’t have to hire lawyers to appeal to the Federal Communications Commission when we were offered an unfair price. We didn’t have to worry about whether our site’s content would be slower than a competitor that had some kind of exclusive “fast lane” deal. Such roadblocks would have created enormous logistical and financial hurdles — ones so big they might have shut us down before we got started. But that’s the world that start-ups will be born into if the FCC moves forward with its proposed rules allowing paid prioritization — a system where Internet carriers can charge for access to a “fast lane.”

Which Side Are You On, Tom Wheeler?

July 3, 2014 Aitza Haddad, www.freepress.net Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Protest, Tom Wheeler

Net Neutrality activists had one simple question for the FCC chairman yesterday: What side are you on, Tom? Net Neutrality supporters Popular Resistance organized political street theater outside the FCC on Tuesday. The goal: Urge Chairman Tom Wheeler to reclassify Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers. It's the only real way to protect Net Neutrality and ban a play-for-play Internet. They were joined by Code Pink, Free Press, the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press and other Net Neutrality activists outside the FCC. Net Neutrality activists held signs high: "HONK for Net Neutrality," "One Internet for Everyone," "Reclassify the Internet as a Common Carrier," and "NO to Internet Discrimination." Many FCC staffers looked on as they headed out for lunch. Activists also sung chants, which included a remix of a popular Queen song: Tom, are you a slick man, bought man Lobby for your fat cat friends, slipping tiered net rules End Neutrality No equality Just profits for the telecom industry We will, we will, rock you.

FCC Internet Proposal: The Contemporary Pillage Of The Commons

June 30, 2014 Rivera Sun, www.truth-out.org Educate! Commons, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Seething below the surface of citizens' outrage at the FCC proposal to create a tiered, pay-to-play internet structure lays a story people know so well, it could be encoded in our DNA. The rich and powerful are stealing the commons of the people. Comcast, Verizon and other telecom giants are the new Lairds of the Highlands, the Marie Antoinettes, the Robber Barons of the 1890s. The Commons are no longer large tracks of land or public grazing grounds or local self-governance - those have already been stolen. The Commons under assault is the internet. As with every achievement of humanity, individual sectors of the populace try to take credit and ownership of the internet, saying, "I created this" or "I provide the infrastructure for your access." This is akin to saying, "I built the Empire State Building" instead of "thousands of hardworking, impoverished Americans poured the concrete and scaled the steel trusses; countless educators and inventors passed the knowledge of engineering to the designers; and the banks financed the construction with funds from war profiteering that was made on the bloodshed of millions."

Will Tom Wheeler Be On The Side Of ‘Media Justice’?

June 26, 2014 Elias Weston-Farber, www.PopularResistance.or Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Tom Wheeler will be visiting the state this coming Monday, June 30th, to have a dialogue directly with New Mexico youth about Internet and media issues for the first time. We talked to the Campaign Coordinator of Media Literacy Project Alanna Offield about this interesting event. Media Literacy Project specifically is interested in pursuing ‘media justice,’ which Offield describes as: “making sure that all of the families and all of the individuals in our community have the tools that they need to access, analyze and create their own media that reflects their lived experience.” They create advocates for media justice through education about how the media works: “We look at what are the images we see in the media be it advertisements, television, or movies and we start to ask critical questions like, what are we being sold here? Who is this message for? What techniques of persuasion are being used?

The Case For Net Neutrality

June 18, 2014 Marvin Ammori, www.foreignaffairs.com Educate! Barack Obama, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure of Barack Obama’s presidency. That inauspicious distinction belongs to his administration’s incompetence in another area: reneging on Obama’s signature pledge to ensure “net neutrality,” the straightforward but powerful idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same. Net neutrality holds that ISPs shouldn’t offer preferential treatment to some websites over others or charge some companies arbitrary fees to reach users. By this logic, AT&T, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to grant iTunes Radio a special “fast lane” for its data while forcing Spotify to make do with choppier service. On the campaign trail in 2007, Obama called himself “a strong supporter of net neutrality” and promised that under his administration, the Federal Communications Commission would defend that principle. But in the last few months, his FCC appears to have given up on the goal of maintaining an open Internet. This past January, a U.S. federal appeals court, in a case brought by Verizon, struck down the net neutrality rules adopted by the FCC in 2010, which came close to fulfilling Obama’s pledge despite a few loopholes.

Open Letter To FCC Employees On Real Net Neutrality

June 16, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Whistleblowers

Dear FCC Employees, We have spent a good deal of time at the FCC camping in front of the Maine Ave. entrance, leafleting and rallying to reclassify the Internet as a common carrier. First, we want to thank you for your support. Overwhelmingly employees at the FCC have supported an Internet free of discrimination. Many of you want what is best for the country – that the greatest communication tool ever invented continue to be a source for democratization of mass communication, creative entrepreneurship and a platform for growth and creativity. Second, we want you to know you are not alone. You are not alone inside the FCC nor are you alone among the American people. After our encampment and hundreds of thousands of emails and phone calls, the FCC Commissioners voted to allow reclassifying the Internet as a common carrier to be included in the rulemaking process.

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