Net Neutrality

Our Internet Will Be Destroyed In The Coming Weeks & No One’s Talking About It

May 16, 2017 Lee Camp, www.rt.com/redactedtonight/ Educate! Internet, Net Neutrality

By Lee Camp for Redacted Tonight - May 18 could signal the end of Net Neutrality, a.k.a. the fight for a free and open internet. Why? That's when the FCC, now spearheaded by former Verizon legal counsel Ajit Pai, will vote on whether or not to roll back regulations set in 2015 to keep the Internet fair. Telecom giants like Comcast and the FCC are pushing forward on undermining internet freedom in a variety of ways, one of which is them going so far as to actually call their attempts at crushing internet freedom, you guessed it - INTERNET FREEDOM. It’s Orwellian and sick. A free and open internet is why movements like Black Lives Matter, the Bernie Revolution and Occupy have been able to even exist. Lee Camp shares why Net Neutrality is important to our democracy and shreds Pai on his willingness to be an absolutely ridiculous, villainous corporate tool in the latest clip from Redacted Tonight.

Protesters Take Net Neutrality Issue To FCC Chair’s Home

May 15, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Ajit Pai, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Ajit Pai, the Chair of the FCC, is on a mission -- he is going to destroy the Internet by reclassifying it so it is no longer a common carrier where we all have equal access and repeal net neutral rules so Comcast, Verizon and A&T can act based on content and allow Internet discrimination. Net neutrality activists began a vigil at the FCC chairman's home in Arlington on Sunday, May 14 and will continue on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday until the public meeting at the FCC on Thursday. Twenty people stood outside of his home holding signs urging "Save The Internet," "We Want Democracy Not Net Monopolies," Ajit Pai Stop the Lies" "Protect the Internet" and "Equal Access for All." The protest was supported by every neighbor who spoke to them, one even offered the use of their bathroom if net neutrality advocates needed it.

Take Action To Protect Our Internet!

May 13, 2017 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Petitions and Online Actions FCC, Free Speech, Internet freed, Media, Net Neutrality

By Popular Resistance. Tell Ajit Pai to protect net neutrality. In 2014 the people fought the Giant Telecoms to win reclassification of the Internet as a common carrier under the Obama administration. This success gave us Net Neutrality - everyone can go wherever they want on the Internet. Now, under the Trump administration, the new chair of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, a former lawyer for Verizon, is moving quickly to take net neutrality away! He plans to start that process on May 18 unless we stop him. Send him an email now!

Inventor Of Web, Tim Berners Lee, Calls For Net Neutrality

May 10, 2017 Mathias Döpfner, www.businessinsider.com Resist! Internet, Net Neutrality

By Mathias Döpfner for Tech Insider - Mathias Döpfner: In a way, you are the Konrad Zuse for the digital world. In 1989, you created the World Wide Web, which is basically seen as the ideal for transparency. Do you sometimes feel that this ideal is transforming into a monster? Tim Berners-Lee: Over the decades, I changed my answer to that. For the first two decades, I would answer as a matter of principle that, when you look out there, you see humanity. Humanity has good sides and bad sides. The Web has to be an accurate mirror of humanity. Therefore, you will find bad stuff, and you will find good stuff, horrible stuff and glorious stuff. That was my answer for a long time. Now we’ve gotten into the age of social networks, I think the last couple of years have made a lot of people rethink. So having spent two decades trying to keep the Web open, keep it neutral, assuming that, if humanity has an open and neutral Web, then it will build wonderful things with it, like Wikipedia, etc. Now we’ve realized, actually, it might not. It depends what sort of system technically you build on the Web when you build something like a social networking system.

How To Protest The FCC’s Plan To Dismantle Net Neutrality

May 9, 2017 Harrison Weber, www.venturebeat.com Resist! FCC, Net Neutrality, Protests

By Harrison Weber for Venture Beat - President Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, is moving forward with his plan to destroy Obama-era Net Neutrality regulations. But before the FCC stops regulating internet providers as it does other public utilities — under the Title II provision of the Telecommunications Act — the agency is soliciting public feedback. YOUR feedback. The FCC’s website is a nightmare to use, but John Oliver, reprising his 2014 Net Neutrality campaign, created a handy shortcut for you: gofccyourself.com. Grab your pitchfork. Here’s a stupidly simple guide to sharing your thoughts with the FCC.

Net Neutrality Protestors Leave Messages On Doors In FCC Chairman’s Neighborhood

May 9, 2017 Natt Garun, www.theverge.com Resist! FCC, Net Neutrality, Protests

By Natt Garun for The Verge - Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai unveiled his plans to reverse net neutrality last month, and the proposal is expected to face an initial vote on May 18th. While net neutrality supporters have displayed their opposition to Pai’s continued stance against the 2015 ruling in a few creative ways, this weekend a campaign aimed to hit the chairman close to home — literally. On Sunday, protesters from the Protect Our Internet campaign went around Pai’s neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia, and distributed door hangers at nearby homes, prompting people to be aware of their neighbor’s efforts to limit internet freedom. The flyers feature a black-and-white photo of Pai, along with a short description of the chairman’s background and how his proposal would roll back open internet rules. According to a blog post by the activists, hundreds of signs were circulated and the crew received “friendly support from the neighbors they spoke to.”

John Oliver Makes Another Rallying Cry To Save Net Neutrality

May 8, 2017 Ted Johnson, www.variety.com Resist! Net Neutrality

By Ted Johnson for Variety - John Oliver again called on viewers of “Last Week Tonight” to flood the FCC with calls and comments to urge the agency to retain net neutrality. Oliver’s show went so far as to take out a domain name — gofccyourself.com — to give users an easier way to post comments to the FCC site. On Sunday, it appeared that the site’s page for comments was already overloaded. In 2014, as the FCC was considering a new set of net neutrality rules, Oliver did an extended segment on his show. The next day, the FCC’s website crashed, and Oliver’s attention helped give public attention to the issue. Almost 4 million comments were received, leading to the commission’s decision in 2015 to reclassify internet service as a common carrier and to pass a robust set of net neutrality rules. In his segment on Sunday, Oliver warned that net neutrality was again under threat, as new chairman Ajit Pai seeks to roll back the reclassification. That move, Oliver said, would weaken net neutrality, and he pointed to reports that Pai supported a plan in which internet providers would voluntarily agree to a set of rules that would be a part of a customer’s terms of service.

FCC Commissioner Tells ALEC To Help Squash Net Neutrality.

May 8, 2017 Bruce Kushnick, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! ALEC, FCC, Net Neutrality

By Bruce Kushnick for The Huffington Post - But when the second Republican FCC Commissioner, Michael O’Rielly, speaks at ALEC’s (American Legislative Exchange Council) Communications & Technology Task Force and calls on the group to take actions to help the FCC take down Net Neutrality and the speech is listed as business as usual at the FCC—we know that the FCC is captured. (I note that in 2013 then-commissioner Pai spoke to the same ALEC group.) I just posted an article from 2013 that outlines how a Petition filed by AT&T, which was based on ‘model legislation’ created by ALEC, is now the game plan for the current FCC in 2017. The plan is to remove all regulations, all obligations and consumer protections so that the corporations can optimize profits. The FCC’s plans are couched in twisted word speech, calling for “Internet freedom” yet we find that it is just freedom for the large corporations, the large phone and cable companies – AT&T, Verizon, Centurylink and the cable companies, who are all members of ALEC, as far as we can tell. And it is clear that this FCC is just out of control. Talk about being biased, the FCC’s own press release and fact sheet called: “What Capitol Hill Is Saying About Restore Internet Freedom Proposal”

Net Neutrality Activists Take on New FCC Chairman

May 7, 2017 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Ajit Pai, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

By John Zangas and Anne Meador for DC Media Group. Trump's FCC Chair Ajit Pai is proposing to repeal the Title II classification of the Internet as a common carrier and remove net neutrality rules. Personal visits to Pai’s 5,300-square-foot house in Arlington, Va.–valued at $1,550,000–began this weekend. Prior to a May 18 meeting of FCC commissioners, a handful of Net Neutrality activists hit the streets of Chairman Pai’s upscale neighborhood in what they called an agitation, or “Ajit-ation.” They distributed two hundred flyers to neighbors with a large photo of the FCC chairman with the caption, “Have you seen this man? He is trying to destroy Net Neutrality by giving cable companies the power to control content on the internet.” The “Ajit-ation” includes a series of protests on the street in front of Chairman Pai’s house planned for next week.

Killing Net Neutrality Is A Horrible Idea

May 5, 2017 Staff, www.record-bee.com Resist! Net Neutrality, Trump Administration

By Staff of Record-Bee - It’s no surprise that new Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai wants to do away with the basic principle that all Internet data should be treated equally by broadband providers, such as Comcast, Verizon and AT&T. He’s a former Verizon lawyer, as President Trump was well aware. The shock will be if Congress allows the FCC to kill net neutrality, the principle that’s as important to the Internet as the First Amendment is to free speech. The tech industry and consumers have common ground here. They need to join forces to derail the plan. The only alternative is to fight Pai and the FCC in the courts. Pai on Wednesday revealed his proposal to roll back the Obama administration’s rules that ensured what was widely viewed as “the strongest Internet protections” in tech history. Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler’s order prevented giving broadband service providers a free hand to block or give preference to websites at will. Website and Internet companies, including the likes of Google, Facebook and Netflix, strongly support retaining net neutrality. But it’s the thousands of small startups creating the next wave of Internet innovation that are the chief concern.

On Net Neutrality The Dishonesty Of The Telecoms Is Evident To All

May 4, 2017 Nilay Patel, www.theverge.com Educate! Net Neutrality, Telecommunications

By Nilay Patel for The Verge - The fight over net neutrality is starting to heat up — and the big difference between this time and 2015 is that big ISPs seem incredibly emboldened to say whatever they want without any regard for the truth. For example: here’s some sponcon from Verizon, where someone named Jeremy “interviews” Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman about what the FCC is up to and the resultant backlash, and Silliman says a bunch of things that are just flatly not true. How not true? He casually ignores the fact that Verizon sued the FCC to kill net neutrality in the past; losing that case is why the agency had to use the stronger Title II approach in the first place. (I’m not the only one to notice this; Motherboard pointed it out earlier.) Anyway, I’ve lined up almost everything Silliman says in this video against that simple fact. It is astounding. Enjoy.

Senate Dem: FCC Chief May Have Violated Law In Net Neutrality Rollout

May 4, 2017 Ali Breland, www.thehill.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

By Ali Breland for The Hill - Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) on Tuesday said the way that Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai introduced his plan to roll back net neutrality may have skirted the law. “He sounded more like a political person taking a political position than someone who was going to really inquiry into the best path forward,” Schatz told reporters. “I think it is legally consequential.” The Hawaii senator, who is the ranking member of the subcommittee on communications and technology, said the FCC chairman may have violated a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” (NPRM) statute by appearing to take a clear position on a proposal that hasn't even been considered. The statute states that the FCC must first consider public comment before taking a specific position on a policy. “They are supposed to receive public comment. They are supposed to establish a public record,” Schatz said. “You would never have anybody in judiciary announcing their position, declaring that they will ‘win in the end,’ that ‘this is a fight and they intend to win it.’ "When Pai introduced his proposal to significantly scale back on Obama-era net neutrality rules, he closed his speech by saying, “Make no mistake about it: this is a fight that we intend to wage and it is a fight that we are going to win."

Trade in the Digital Era, We Demand Popular Participation

May 4, 2017 Daniel Cooper Bermudez for Popular Resistance Educate! Digital Rights, Internet, NAFTA, Net Neutrality, Trade

Daniel Cooper Bermudez for Popular Resistance – Digital rights are under threat in the United States and abroad as corporations and governments work together to infringe upon people’s privacy and limit essential civil and political rights such as freedom and equality in access to information. From the FCC’s dismantling of Net Neutrality to the inclusion of digital trade provisions in TPP that industry leaders want in NAFTA, the movement has been ready to fight back and has counter-proposals to guarantee that the internet remains free and open, a center for the global organizing required to foster a world fighting back climate change and human rights violations.

This Is Why We Need Real Net Neutrality Rules

May 4, 2017 Chris Mills, www.bgr.com Resist! Comcast, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

By Chris Mills for BGR - At the heart of the matter are new fees that Comcast recently introduced, described as a “broadcast TV fee.” It’s a fee that even Comcast admits goes to paying content providers for cable channels, which is exactly what your cable bundle is supposed to be paying for already. It’s a problem because, as the regional regulators outlined in a letter, fees are supposed to be used for things outside the core contract, like government taxes or equipment rental fees. Instead, Comcast (and other cable companies) are breaking up the costs of providing a service and hiding some of them under the fold of the bill. It makes it difficult for consumers to sign up for a service and actually know how much they’ll be paying per month; worse, the fees can change arbitrarily throughout the course of a contract, with zero recourse for the customer. So what does this have to do with net neutrality? Well, the abuse of fees is a classic case of a couple powerful companies with near-monopolies abusing their power at the expense of consumers. The FCC has a “voluntary” program that says that ISPs aren’t meant to do this kind of thing, but it lacks enforcement power to really crack down on it.

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