Net Neutrality

Internet Countdown To Real Net Neutrality Begins Today

January 26, 2015 Rachel Colyer, www.dailykos.com Resist! FCC, Law, Net Neutrality

With exactly one month until a final vote on net neutrality at the FCC, net neutrality advocates are encouraging internet users, content creators, and major websites to join in the next phase of the campaign to save the internet—from the folks who brought about the Internet Slowdown in September, we now have the “Internet Countdown.” The Internet Countdown is a month-long push to remind the FCC that the upcoming vote on net neutrality is one of the most important votes the FCC will ever take. Further, we will be counting down the days and minutes until the vote happens with all eyes on the FCC.

The World Is Watching Our Net Neutrality Debate

January 23, 2015 Ambassador Daniel A. Sepulveda, www.wired.com Educate! Internet, Law, Net Neutrality

The U.S. government is working hard to preserve and protect the open internet, ensuring that it remains an engine for innovation, economic growth, and free expression. But we can’t take the open internet for granted in America. We need to ensure that internet service providers cannot abuse their control over internet infrastructure to block or throttle traffic, or improperly extract additional payments for access based on content, nationality, or the targeted end users. Some opponents of network neutrality have argued that any possible classification of broadband access as a telecommunications service will undermine our ability to push back against efforts to assert more government control of the internet at the international level, including at the United Nations and the International Telecommunication Union.

The Trouble With Fake Net Neutrality Bills

January 22, 2015 Timothy Karrr, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Democracy, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

"What Thune and Upton are actually trying to do is declaw the one agency responsible for protecting the public interest in communications. Having lost their fight against Net Neutrality in the court of public opinion, companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon are trying to use fake Net Neutrality bills to end all effective oversight of their anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices. "The solution is simple: The FCC should return to Title II, the applicable law that a bipartisan Congress wrote for all telecom networks, including broadband Internet access. That would restore the FCC's critical authority to prevent harmful discrimination, and also to promote competition, universal service and access, interconnection, public safety, and general consumer protections in an increasingly concentrated market that’s drifting dangerously toward monopoly.

We Are In The Final Countdown To Save The Net

January 14, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

We are in the final countdown to save the net. We expect the FCC to reveal its position on net neutrality in early February and to vote on it February 26. We are winning on net neutrality and the telecoms know it. They are doing all they can to stop reclassification of the Internet as a common carrier under Title II of the Telecommunication Act and we are fighting back! We would like to share some tools from our coalition partners so that you can join the fight too. Together we will save the Internet.

Shareholders Press Verizon Board On Net Neutrality Stance

January 14, 2015 Open Mic, www.openmic.org Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Investors in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) are once again pressing the company’s board of directors to report on the business risks arising from the company’s opposition to open Internet and network neutrality principles. A shareholder proposal which last year won 26.4% of the shareholder vote – representing $30.6 billion of Verizon shares – has been resubmitted for consideration at Verizon’s 2015 annual meeting. The proposal comes as the Federal Communications Commission is reportedly preparing to propose new open Internet and network neutrality rules at its next public meeting on February 26. Verizon has mounted a multi-year legal effort to block prior FCC open Internet rules and has publicly indicated that it might take legal action to block new rules.

Congress, Do No Harm

January 13, 2015 Sandra Fulton, www.freepress.net Educate! Congress, Internet, Net Neutrality

After a productive, hard-fought year, the FCC responded. Earlier this month it announced that it will vote on new Net Neutrality rules at its Feb. 26 meeting. And last Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Chairman Tom Wheeler promised the crowd, “We’re going to propose rules that say no blocking, no throttling, no paid prioritization.” He also signaled that he would base new rules on Title II. The people have spoken and Washington listened! Democracy is poised to win the day! Everything is going our way! Except for this: Congress is now threatening to step in and stifle our momentum. Americans across the political spectrum — according to one study, that’s 81 percent of Democrats and 85 percent of Republicans — want strong Net Neutrality protections.

#BlackLivesMatter Movement Urges Net Neutrality

January 11, 2015 Matt Sledge, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), FCC, Net Neutrality

Police reform organizers traveled to Capitol Hill and the Federal Communications Commission on Friday to push for open access to the Internet, which they say is an increasingly vital organizing tool in the wake of the controversial deaths of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. The delegation met with black members of Congress including Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). They also met with one commissioner and staffers from the FCC, which will decide in February whether to classify broadband Internet as a public utility, a step that could prevent broadband companies from charging for priority access to their customers. "We were founded clearly in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin, on the key premise of the failure of the media to adequately report on the murder," said Dante Barry, the director of the group Million Hoodies. "If we don't have access to open Internet, and we don't have net neutrality, then it limits the ability for black people to save themselves." The organizers met with FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and staffers for Chairman Tom Wheeler and Jessica Rosenworcel, the three Democratic-appointed members of the commission.

Newsletter: Breaking The Spell Of The Corporate State

January 10, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Climate Justice, Democracy, Extreme Energy, Healthcare, Internet, KXL pipeline, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Net Neutrality, Racism, TPP, Trade, Vermont, Zapatistas

The democracy crisis grows deeper. Analysis of the mid-term elections shows voting levels lower than the era of Andrew Jackson, when the requirement of owning property to vote was removed. People are rejecting both political parties as 42% of Americans are registered independents compared to 30% Democrats and 25% Republicans. Nozomi Hayase writes people are breaking the spell of the corporate state, recognizing the elites who govern are not smarter than the rest of us, that they fit the characteristics of psychopaths for their endless war, debt-ponzi schemes and that the ongoing financial crisis exposes their agenda of hoarding wealth for themselves. At the same time Hayase writes: “Civil disobedience against the corporate state demands that we disobey their commands and instead begin listening to our hearts that know what is right and wrong.”

Stop The Telecoms From Destroying Net Neutrality

January 9, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Corporatism, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

January 14 is the one year anniversary of the Verizon court decision that ended net neutrality. The judge stated that the only way to protect net neutrality was to reclassify the Internet as a common carrier under Title II of the telecommunications act. Now that the Federal Communications Commission has come out in favor of Title II, the giant telecoms like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T are doing everything they can in Congress to stop the FCC. Time to make the telecoms, already some of the most hated corporations, into political poison. Rally at the telecom industry trade association at 25 Massachusetts Ave., NW Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 12 noon. It's a block from Union Station which is on the metro red line. We'll be wearing hazmat suits. Bring signs or use ours calling out the telecoms for going against democracy, for corrupting politicians and for destroying Internet freedom.

FCC Chair All But Confirms Reclassification And Net Neutrality

January 9, 2015 Brian Fung, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

President Obama's top telecom regulator just issued his strongest hints yet about a pending plan to regulate Internet providers, and judging by reports from the room, he's leaning hard toward the most aggressive proposal on the table. Speaking Wednesday at CES, the world's largest consumer electronics show, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler took aim at several industry arguments against the use of Title II of the Communications Act to regulate broadband providers. That's the legal tool that President Obama and many consumer groups say would prevent broadband providers from unfairly discriminating against some Web sites.

Voters Want A Free And Open Internet

January 9, 2015 Tom Freedman, Alan Davidson, and Alexander C. Hart, www.mercurynews.com Educate! Democracy, Elections, Internet, Net Neutrality

First, on the most high-profile issue of the day, net neutrality, the new proposed executive branch actions have strong support across the ideological spectrum. The concept that Internet service providers (ISPs) should be prevented from blocking or slowing down access to Internet services or from treating them differently is hotly disputed. But even strong language like that used by President Obama -- treating Internet service providers like public utilities -- saw support that crossed the partisan divide. More than half of voters agreed with treating providers like utilities, including two-thirds of Democrats, nearly the same percentage of Independents and a plurality of Republicans.

FCC Said To Signal It’s Heeding Obama’s Call For Open-Web Rules

January 8, 2015 Todd Shields and James Rowley, www.bloomberg.com Create! FCC, Freedom of Expression, Internet, Net Neutrality

The U.S. Federal Communication Commission is signaling that it intends to adopt President Barack Obama’s proposal to keep the Internet open when the independent agency votes on rules next month. FCC officials working on the issue under Chairman Tom Wheeler are asking questions they would only ask if they were taking the direction Obama is seeking, such as how to regulate wireless service, said one person involved in discussions with the agency. Obama in November called for “the strongest possible rules” to regulate Internet service, including a ban on so-called fast lanes. In doing so, he joined the ranks of Internet startups, public interest groups and more than 105,000 people who signed a petition to the White House calling for an open-Internet policy. The rules would ensure service providers treat Web traffic equally -- a concept known as net neutrality.

Four Pivotal Internet Issues As The Year Turns 2015

January 7, 2015 Timothy Karr, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Human Rights, Internet, Net Neutrality

Still, the Internet's fate feels distinctly uncertain as 2015 begins. Washington is engaged in a furious debate over Net Neutrality, access to affordable broadband services is still considered a luxury for many, while governments here and abroad continue to filter digital communications to spy on everyone, crack down on dissident voices and silence speech. At stake is whether the Internet remains a democratic, user-powered network -- or falls under the control of a few powerful entities. Here are the four Internet issues that played leading roles in the United States in 2014, and which will remain at center stage as the New Year begins.

We Need To Advocate Radical Solutions To Systemic Problems

January 5, 2015 Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org Educate! Capitalism, Internet, Net Neutrality

What is striking about this corporate monopolization of the internet is that all the wealth and power has gone to a small number of absolutely enormous firms. As we enter 2015, 13 of the 33 most valuable corporations in the United States are internet firms, and nearly all of them enjoy monopolistic market power as economists have traditionally used the term. If you continue to scan down the list there are precious few internet firms to be found. There is not much of a middle class or even an upper-middle class of internet corporations to be found. This poses a fundamental problem for democracy, though it is one that mainstream commentators and scholars appear reluctant to acknowledge: If economic power is concentrated in a few powerful hands you have the political economy for feudalism, or authoritarianism, not democracy. Concentrated economic power invariably overwhelms the political equality democracy requires, leading to routinized corruption and an end of the rule of law. That is where we are today in the United States.

Black Lives Depend On A Free And Open Internet

January 5, 2015 Patrisse Cullors, www.thehill.com Resist! FCC, Ferguson, Net Neutrality, Racial Justice

The Internet is the most democratic communication platform in history, largely because we’ve had network neutrality rules that make sure all web traffic is treated equally, and no voices are discriminated against. Because of network neutrality rules, activists can turn to the Internet to bypass the discrimination of mainstream cable, broadcast and print outlets as we organize for change. It is because of net neutrality rules that the Internet is the only communication channel left where Black voices can speak and be heard, produce and consume, on our own terms. But, right now, Black online voices are threatened. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is drafting and preparing to vote on new rules that will either preserve the level online playing field we’ve enjoyed for the last several decades, or destroy it.

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