Net Neutrality

Hello Censorship If Secret TISA Pact Is Approved

December 28, 2014 Pete Dolack, www.systemicdisorder.wordpress.com Educate! Finance and the Economy, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Trade

Internet privacy and net neutrality would become things of the past if the secret Trade In Services Agreement comes to fruition. And on this one, the secrecy exceeds even that shrouding the two better-known corporate giveaways, the Trans-Pacific and Transatlantic partnerships. Yet another tentacle in the octopus of multi-national corporations’ attempt to achieve dictatorial control, the Trade In Services Agreement (TISA) is intended to eliminate government regulations in the “professional services” such as accounting and engineering but goes well beyond that, proposing sweeping de-regulation of the Internet and the financial industry. Another snippet of TISA’s text has been leaked, this time by the freedom-of-information organization Associated Whistleblowing Press.

Newsletter – 2014 In Review

December 27, 2014 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Net Neutrality, New Economy, police brutality, Racism, TPP, Wars and Militarism

At the beginning of 2014, we wrote about the tasks of the movement for the year to work towards the goal of building a mobilized mass movement. Progress was made this year on a number of fronts where not only did greater numbers of people mobilize, but people also made connections between issues and worked in solidarity. We’ll look back at some of the tasks we identified and how we did: Build unity around the values of the movement – a primary task is identifying not just what we are against but defining what we are for, what kind of society we hope to build. In 2014, there were conferences held across the country where people discussed how to build a new economy that creates and maintains wealth locally, empowers people and decreases the wealth divide. Cities like Jacksonville, FL are creating roadmaps to the new economy by building on successful models elsewhere. Seattle, WA is working towards a public bank that keeps public dollars from feeding Wall Street.

Newsletter: Protest Becomes More Sophisticated

December 20, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Fracking, Net Neutrality, Pipeline, police brutality, Racism

In the last few months multiple groups of people have been discussing how to escalate, link issues and build the protest movement's power even more. We have heard the same conversation in different circles multiple times. We have seen this before and know it means another big wave is coming. We want to alert you to it because to make it as impactful as possible, we all need to be prepared to do all we can. People across the country should be asking their friends and colleagues: what can we do to grow the movement for transformative change? In this week's newsletter, we are going to report on recent actions that show the movement getting more sophisticated, effective and organized. Before we do so, we want to let you know about a new tool that could be very helpful in building your actions and making them more effective.

Some Internet Activists Say Obama Didn’t Go Far Enough

December 17, 2014 Tracy Rosenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

When Barack Obama came out publicly for the reclassification of the Internet as a public utility, his announcement indicated that the decades-long battle to maintain neutrality on the Web had entered a new high-profile stage. From a wonky side discussion found mostly in the technology sections of major newspapers and on computer blogs, net neutrality had suddenly morphed into a national obsession, filling up late-night TV and social-media feeds with one meme after another and finally crashing the FCC's website with 4 million public comments. The deliberations of agency chair Tom Wheeler, a former cable and wireless lobbyistappointed by a Democratic president, became a public drama, as one half-baked compromise proposal after another bit the dust in the face of public outrage.

Busted: The Internet Tax Hoax Of 2014

December 17, 2014 Timothy Karr, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Last week we saw a string of the country's biggest Internet service providers, including Comcast, Verizon and Time Warner Cable, admit what we've said all along: Reclassifying Internet access as a Title II telecom service won't hurt broadband investment. For years they've been claiming the opposite just to scare the FCC away from using Title II to protect Net Neutrality. And here's another thing the cable lobby doesn't want you to know: Buried deep in the $1.1 trillion spending package Congress just passed is a provision to extend a moratorium on local and state taxes for Internet access. That moratorium is called the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA), and Congress just reauthorized it through October 2015.

5 Big Myths About ‘Next Generation’ Civil Rights & Open Internet

December 16, 2014 Malkia A. Cyril, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! Civil Rights, Ferguson, Internet, Net Neutrality, police brutality, Racial Justice

As Black communities emerge from the shadows of criminalization, hashtags like#BlackLivesMatter have jumped off the computer screen and into the street. Beyond sparking a long-awaited new civil rights movement, they are also catalyzing an amazing 21st century model for civil rights activism. But the ability of Black communities to use the Internet to sustain this growing movement is threatened. Last year, a D.C. circuit court struck down network neutrality rules. The court told the FCC, the agency that regulates the Internet, that the only way to legally prevent discrimination online and enforce the net neutrality rules that make the Internet such a powerful tool, is to reclassify broadband as common carrier service -- a public utility, like electricity or water.

Net Neutrality – We’re Winning! Don’t Let Telecoms Stop Us

December 14, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Following the December 11 public meeting of the FCC where net neutrality activists disrupted and held a banner behind the commissioners, Chairman Tom Wheeler made a statement to the press that was supportive of Title II. This is remarkable progress considering that reclassification wasn't meant to be considered earlier in the year. Now, Title II seems inevitable and you can bet that the telecoms who are fighting to protect their monopoly of the Internet and their future profits are going to do everything they can to undermine the gains we've made. They already are by spreading lies through front groups, buying off civil rights groups and pressuring members of Congress. There are more Internet defenders than there are lobbyists. We've shown our power before and won. Time to do it again!

Newsletter: Respect Our Human Rights Or We’ll ‘Shut It Down’

December 13, 2014 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Bankers, Climate Justice, Corruption, Education, FCC, Finance and Economy, Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, GMOs, Healthcare, Human Rights, Internet Freedom, Monsanto, Net Neutrality, Police abuse, Racism, Torture, TPP, Undercover police, Worker Rights and Jobs

This week we marked the 66th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was signed by the United States at its inception but has never been ratified. Perhaps because we live in a country that does not protect our human rights, many people in the United States lack an understanding that they exist. In the work for justice, important tasks are to learn about our rights, recognize that they are being violated and to stand up with the demand that these rights are honored. Throughout history it has been organized people-power that has won rights. We cannot expect to gain them any other way. We’ll highlight many areas where people are fighting for rights.

Unbelievable: Telecoms Claim They’re Worried About Your Bill!

December 13, 2014 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Common Carrier, FCC, Net Neutrality, Tom Wheeler

In a claim that must have people laughing out loud, the telecom and broadband providers are fighting net neutrality claiming that they will raise the rates of consumers! It is hard to believe that even telecom lobbyists, well-paid to mislead Congress and regulators, could make this claim without smirking as cable bills have been rising at four times the rate of inflation. Now they claim to be concerned about consumer costs. Why? Because they want to protect their monopolies that allow them to gouge consumers and provide sub-par service. The telecoms remind us of the mafia: “If you reclassify the Internet as a public utility, it’s gonna cost you.” It is time to stand up to these bullies. The Internet community is strong enough to defeat them in any arena. And, the FCC will be able to control their costs if they reclassify because Title II gives the FCC the power to control the fees they charge.

Comcast Won’t Promise Net Neutrality After 2018

December 13, 2014 Christopher Zara, www.ibtimes.com Educate! Internet, Net Neutrality

Don’t get too comfortable with that open Internet. An executive for Comcast Corp. on Thursday refused to commit to net neutrality protection beyond 2018, when the company’s federally imposed requirement to maintain an open-Internet policy expires. At a public hearing in Midtown Manhattan, Mark Reilly, senior vice president of government and regulatory relations for Comcast’s Northeast division, said the Philadelphia cable giant plans to leave net neutrality to regulators at the Federal Communications Commission, where open-Internet rules are being hashed out. Comcast frequently boasts that it’s the only Internet service provider legally bound to honor net neutrality, the principle that all Internet traffic should be treated equally.

Net Neutrality Activists Disrupt FCC Meeting

December 11, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

This morning at 10:40am, net neutrality demonstrators interrupted the FCC’s monthly meeting by unfurling a large banner reading “Reclassify Now!” behind the seated FCC commissioners. The activists, both union members, were escorted from the room by security after speaking out and asking FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler why he continues to delay Title II net neutrality, which should have been voted on at today’s meeting. Other activists inside the meeting held paper signs calling for reclassification of the Internet under Title without delay. Several stood up and spoke to Chairman Wheeler from the floor to ask why net neutrality was left off the agenda before being escorted from the room.

Newsletter: People Power Grows, Demands Justice

December 6, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Fracking, Minimum Wage, Net Neutrality, Police abuse, Racism, TPP

This week tens of thousands of people in the United States flooded the streets to demand racial justice. It is one of many issues that has been building for years, reaching the tipping point and seeming to explode in a national awakening. We also saw that in the last two weeks with national protests for living wages. Four years ago when we organized the occupation of Washington, DC at Freedom Plaza, we listed 15 crisis issues that the country needed to face, poverty wages and the injustice in criminal enforcement, including racially abusive police practices, were two of them. None of these 15 core issues has been adequately dealt with. In each there are people working to build support for their cause; each has the potential to explode on the national scene – some already have. This newsletter highlights five current campaigns and mobilizations that are demanding social, economic and environmental justice.

Net Neutrality Jumbotron Delivers Message FCC Couldn’t Miss

December 6, 2014 Mary Alice Crim, www.freepress.net Resist! FCC, Human Rights, Internet, Net Neutrality, Obama

Just after dark on Thursday night in Washington, Free Press parked a Jumbotron right outside the swanky hotel hosting a dinner and roast honoring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. The huge screen outside the so-called “Telecom Prom” featured a song pleading with the FCC to protect the open Internet — part of a video montage that played for hours. The program included President Obama’s historic video statement endorsing Net Neutrality, homemade YouTube videos, images from rallies, and testimonials from public hearings that Wheeler and his colleagues declined to attend.

Open-Internet Activists To Protest At FCC Meeting

December 3, 2014 Kimya Hedayat-Zadeh, www.defendingdissent.org Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

One of the best things about the Internet is that it is open. Like the mouse running round the pipes in your house, you can scurry wherever you’d like on the Web. Like a spider, you can spindle your own site, and like the public commons, no one owns the place–not you, me, not the government agency that ought to regulate it if only to preserve its openness, and not even Comcast, Verizon, or Time Warner, who are simply paid to provide the connection. But what if, as a federal appeals court ruled in February, those three companies had the ability to charge sites more if they wanted quick content delivery, leaving people clicking on other sites staring at the spinning circle or rainbow wheel waiting for them to load?

December 11: Next Step In the Campaign To Save the Internet

November 29, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

We have come an incredible distance in our campaign to save the Internet. Initially the solution of the net neutrality community was considered politically impossible, now it is politically inevitable. Or, at least some form of it is and we need to continue to keep the pressure on to make sure it is the right solution that does not allow a tiered Internet with wealthy corporations can pay for better service than start-ups, small businesses and citizen’s media. The solution is to reclassify the Internet as a common carrier so that there can be no discrimination and equal access for all. In order to put into effect Net Neutrality rules the Internet must be reclassified under Title II of the Federal Communication Act. The FCC had planned to put in effect their tiered Internet on December 11. We won an important victory when they were forced to not take that step. Now we need to push for reclassification and Net Neutrality rules. Please join us.

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