Internet Freedom

The EU’s Looming Internet Catastrophe

September 9, 2018 Cory Doctorow, Activist Post. Resist! Censorship, European Union (EU), Internet Freedom

In exactly one week, the European Parliament will hold a crucial debate and vote on a proposal so terrible, it can only be called an extinction-level event for the Internet as we know it. At issue is the text of the new EU Copyright Directive, which updates the 17-year-old copyright regulations for the 28 member-states of the EU. It makes a vast array of technical changes to EU copyright law, each of which has stakeholders rooting for it, guaranteeing that whatever the final text says will become the law of the land across the EU.

Victory! California Passes Net Neutrality Bill

September 3, 2018 By Katharine Trendacosta, Electronic Frontier Foundation Create! Internet Freedom, Net Neuitrality

California’s net neutrality bill, S.B. 822 has received a majority of votes in the Senate and is heading to the governor’s desk. In this fight, ISPs with millions of dollars to spend lost to the voice of the majority of Americans who support net neutrality. This is a victory that can be replicated. ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast hated this bill. S.B. 822 bans blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization, classic ways that companies have violated net neutrality principles. It also incorporates much of what the FCC learned and incorporated into the 2015 Open Internet Order, preventing new assaults on the free and open Internet.

Thousands Of Small Businesses Join Day Of Action For Net Neutrality

August 16, 2018 Staff, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Thousands of small businesses owners from across the country are coming together to demand lawmakers overturn the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. Join with them as part of the Small Business Day of Action for Net Neutrality. Without strong net neutrality protections, Internet service providers like AT&T or Comcast can charge small businesses exorbitant new fees for privileged “fast lane” access to customers online. This amounts to a new tax on businesses across the country, and would significantly undermine the Internet as a level playing field since massive corporations have the deep pockets necessary to pay the expensive new fast lane fees that smaller competitors simply cannot afford.

National Call-In Day: Congress CANNOT Afford To Be Against Net Neutrality

August 1, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutralit

Lawmakers are back home for August recess. Now’s the time for them to listen to their constituents—NOT the Big Cable lobby in DC—and support the CRA to restore #NetNeutrality, which has massive bipartisan public support. The first GOP lawmaker in the House has signed on to the CRA resolution to fully restore #NetNeutrality; 177 Representatives have signed the petition to force a vote on #NetNeutrality, and we need 218 to win We have the momentum -- if we keep up the pressure we can win! Thursday is a national call-in day. Call your representatives. Use this tool. Outside Washington, #NetNeutrality. IS. NOT. A. PARTISAN ISSUE. Polling consistently shows the public *overwhelmingly* supports #NetNeutrality on a bipartisan basis.

The Internet Is Keeping Score: Momentum For Net Neutrality Is Building

July 23, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Telecom companies gave Congress $102 million to destroy #NetNeutrality. Today the web is coming together to plaster that number across the Internet by driving traffic to the BattleForTheNet.com “scoreboard” -- a new tool that makes it easy to find out where your reps stand on net neutrality. Click here to find out if your representative supports net neutrality, and learn what you can do to help out.

Campaign For Net Neutrality Escalates

July 11, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutralty

Call your representative on Thursday and ask them to support the petition to force a vote to restore net neutrality. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has repealed net neutrality, kicking the door wide open for Big Cable companies to block and slow traffic online. But we’re doing what many thought impossible by getting closer and closer to convincing Congress to overturn the FCC. The campaign for net neutrality continues, indeed is escalating over the summer. The coalition for net neutrality, which internet campaign, Protect Our Internet and Popular Resistance are part of, is increasing pressure on the House of Representatives to support a Resolution of Disapproval under the Congressional Review Act. We have passed the resolution in the Senate and are getting closer in the House.

The Path To Victory On Net Neutrality

May 20, 2018 Ernesto Falcon, EFF. Resist! Congress, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The United States Senate has voted to overturn the FCC and restore net neutrality protections, the fate of that measure currently rests in the House of Representatives. While many will think that the uphill battle there makes it a lost cause, that is simply not true. Together, we have the power to win in the House of Representatives. Now that the Senate has officially voted 52-47 to reverse the FCC’s so-called “Restoring Internet Freedom Order” under an expedited procedure known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA). It is now pending a vote in the House of Representatives.

Victory: Net Neutrality Repeal Blocked In The Senate

May 16, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

This tremendous victory occurred after massive grassroots pressure on members of the US Senate, including weeks of sustained grassroots pressure in the form of 16 million emails, over a million phone calls to the Senate. People said it was impossible to achieve this victory in the Senate because the big Internet Service Providers were too powerful and had made massive donations to senators and they would not go against their donors. They were wrong. The people mobilized on the Internet and won. The movement goes to the next step with huge momentum.

85 Companies Urge Congress to Pass Net Neutrality Measure

May 15, 2018 New America's Open Technology Institute, Popular Resistance Resist! FCC Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Today, 85 companies urged Congress to pass a measure (S.J.Res. 52) that uses the Congressional Review Act to retain the net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission repealed six months ago. The companies, organized by New America’s Open Technology Institute, include many high-growth businesses in a broad cross-section of industries, such as Yelp, Warby Parker, Sonos, ADT, Etsy, and Vimeo. “Congress should protect the internet by passing a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act, thereby restoring strong net neutrality rules at the federal level,” the companies wrote in a letter to congressional leadership. The Senate is expected to vote on the measure on Wednesday. Sarah Morris, Director of Open Internet Policy at New America’s Open Technology Institute, said, “Strong rules that protect an open internet ensure that business owners and consumers can reach one another without harmful manipulation or demands for payment from internet service providers.

Net Neutrality Showdown Is Now

May 8, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

As you can see on our website there is a Red Alert to save Net Neutrality on the Internet. Why are we going red? The Senate will likely vote next week on a measure to reject the FCC’s net neutrality repeal. Under the Congressional Review Act, the Congress has the power to overrule a federal agency. On May 9th, a Resolution of Disapproval will be introduced in the US Senate Democrats. This procedural step will bring the Senate chamber closer to a floor vote on the measure, which would overturn the FCC net neutrality rollback. There are 50 senators who say they will vote in support of the resolution. The movement is pushing this week to get all senators to support net neutrality by voting for the Resolution of Disapproval.

Organizing For Our Rights To Internet Equality

December 20, 2017 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, ClearingtheFOGRadio.org Podcast FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), lead by chairman Ajit Pai, voted to dismantle the hard-won net neutrality rules, going against widespread public support for those rules. The public organized in a massive effort to stop the vote, and now organizations, states and people are taking action to revoke and challenge the FCC's decision. This decision and the public activation around it provide an opportunity to build power not only to win net neutrality, but also to put laws and structures into place that go much farther to create the universal right to high quality, affordable Internet access and equality.

Newsletter – Creating The 21st Century Internet

December 17, 2017 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter FCC, Freedom of Speeh, Human Rights, Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer who is chair of the FCC, went too far last Thursday in undermining the Internet when he led the dismantling of net neutrality rules. As a result, he has fueled the energy needed to protect Internet rights. It is time for Movement Judo, where the energy created by the overreach of the FCC is turned into energy not just to overturn the FCC's decision, but to also create the Internet we need in the 21st Century. Over the past few months, there has arisen an epic mass mobilization in support of net neutrality and national consensus, with a University of Maryland poll finding 83% support for the Internet being open and equal to all.

Call Congress: Revoke The FCC’s Decision To End Net Neutrality

December 16, 2017 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Congress, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

On December 14, Verizon lawyer turned chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, led the effort to dismantle the net neutrality rules we fought for and won in 2015. Even though we lost this battle, we have not lost the struggle for Internet freedom and universal equal access. The next actions include: 1. Forcing Congress to revoke the decision using the Congressional Review Act. 2. Our allies challenging the decision in court. 3. And ultimately, taking our Internet back from the telecoms through municipal and other forms of public ownership. Please take action today to contact your members of Congress and tell them that the Internet is a public necessity, not a profit-maker for the giant telecoms. They must revoke the FCC's decision.

Massive Nationwide Protests For Net Neutrality

December 8, 2017 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org/a> Resist! Freedom of Speech, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Yesterday, more than 700 protests were held across the nation in small towns, suburbs and cities by people calling for a free and open Internet, net neutrality. In red districts, blue districts or purple districts, the people of the United States were united in their call a free and open Internet and in calling on Congress to protect the Internet by stopping the FCC. The Internet is the primary venue for freedom of speech and freedom of commerce for businesses, small and large, in the 21st Century. It is not under the control of corporate interests but a space where everyone has equal access. Net neutrality ensures free and equal access to the Internet for all. A 3-2 majority of the FCC is moving to change the Internet from an open space to one controlled by a handful of corporations. People power is taking action to stop them.

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