Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality Advocates To Protest FCC ‘Hybrid’

November 5, 2014 Dominic Rushe, www.theguardian.com Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The FCC has been inundated with comments as it has weighed its options. A record 3.7m were sent to the regulator, at one point crashing the FCC’s systems.The Sunlight Foundation analysed the first 800,000 and found that fewer than 1% were opposed to net neutrality enforcement. The “hybrid” proposal now under consideration has not been finalised but according to media leaks and discussions with interested parties they would expand the FCC’s powers to regulate broadband while also allowing a carve out for cable providers to charge more money for fast lanes. Net neutrality’s defenders want the internet to be regulated under Title II of the Communications Act – a move that would classify the service as a “common carrier” and give the FCC the power to stop cable companies introducing “unreasonable discrimination” and ensure they work “in the public interest”.

No Compromise: FCC Should Reject ‘Hybrid’ Net Neutrality

November 5, 2014 Corynne McSherry, www.eff.org Resist! FCC, Human Rights, Internet, Net Neutrality

Back in May the Federal Communications Commission proposed flawed “net neutrality” rules that would effectively bless the creation of Internet “slow lanes.” After months of netroots protests the FCC is now reportedly considering a new “hybrid” proposal. EFF is deeply concerned, however, that this "compromise" risks too much, for too little. To see why, a little background is helpful. As we explained back in June, if the FCC is going to craft and enforce clear and limited neutrality rules, it must first do one important thing: reverse its 2002 decision to treat broadband as an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service.” This is what’s known as Title II reclassification. That 2002 decision, as interpreted by the D.C. Circuit last January, now actually prevents the FCC from truly promoting a neutral Internet.

Popular Resistance Newsletter: Internet Emergency

November 1, 2014 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Blockade, Climate Change, Cove Point, Extreme Energy, Ferguson, Fracking, Gas, Internet, Net Neutrality, Oil, Pipelines, Police abuse, police brutality, Snowden, Tar Sands

The FCC meeting on December 11 is likely to be the day they announce new rules for the Internet. We’ve made a lot of progress in ensuring net neutrality but are not there yet. We need you to act now. Take two steps: Take a photo of yourself holding a sign that says #RealNetNeutrality, #ReclassifyTheInternet. You can add another slogan if you like, e.g. Save the Internet, Equal Access for All, My Voice Matters. Then upload a photo to the campaign page: My Voice Matters that will show a broad national consensus for no compromise on net neutrality. Sign up to join us in taking action this Thursday evening. We are urging people to take a very simple action to save the Internet. Organize an event in your community, at your college quad, a local Comcast or Verizon – or wherever works for you. The event should be in the evening so you can hold your cell phone lit up to symbolize the Internet. And, hold a sign like the one we describe in the first action. Sign up your event on our map. Do this now so we quickly show momentum and build the day of action; and people can learn about your event and join you.

Breaking: 75,000 People Tell Obama To Fire FCC Chair Tom Wheeler

October 31, 2014 Tiffiniy Cheng, www.tumblrr.fightforthefuture.org Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Today, digital rights group Fight for the Future — best known for their pivotal role in major Internet protests like the SOPA Blackout and the Internet Slowdown — electronically delivered more than 75,000 signatures to President Barack Obama calling for the White House to publicly support full Title II reclassification and demote FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for failing to do his job protecting the public’s access to a free and open Internet. The delivery came just hours after the Wall Street Journal reported that Wheeler is close to finalizing a net neutrality proposal that would explicitly allow for Internet fast lanes and slow lanes, despite the fact that the FCC has received more than 3.7 million public comments opposing the fast lanes, overwhelmingly in support of banning so-called “paid prioritization” through the use of Title II reclassification.

Stop The FCC From Compromising On Net Neutrality!

October 30, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

We have come so far since we learned at the end of April that the FCC was preparing to propose rules that would allow the Giant Telecoms like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon to create fast lanes for those who can pay more. This would kill net neutrality. We understood that if we lose net neutrality - over time our ability to share information through social media, reach the public with our websites and organize online would diminish. The Internet would become like corporate media. It would change from the open and free platform for the exchange of information and ideas that it currently is to a controlled and censored platform that decides what you can see and share. The people have spoken loudly and clearly - through millions of phone calls, emails and public comments, an occupation outside the FCC and actions from coast to coast we, the people, forced reclassification of the Internet under Title II so that it would be treated as a public good onto the table.

Verizon Launches Tech Blog, Bans Articles On Net Neutrality & Surveillance

October 30, 2014 Mike Masnick, www.beaconreader.com Educate! Corporatism, Freedom of Speech and Assembly, Journalism, Media, Net Neutrality, Surveillance

Anyone writing for SugarString has to agree not to write about net neutrality or government surveillance, two of the biggest, most important tech topics these days. From our standpoint, I guess that takes away “competition” (though, amusingly, it does appear like at least one story on the site is a warmed over version of something that we wrote a week ago, but made more clickbaity with a “list”) on two of the main stories we cover, but it really does raise questions about why anyone would ever trust the site in the first place, when, from the very outset, Verizon has made it clear that its editorial control will be focused on staying away from any stories that Verizon doesn’t like.

Hungary: Protest Over Internet Tax, Warning To FCC

October 28, 2014 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! FCC, Hong Kong, Hungary, Internet, Net Neutrality

The Federal Communication Commission should be concerned when they see the video below of protests in Hungary over an Internet tax. People are throwing computer parts at the headquarters of the ruling party. Protests tend to spread rapidly in the Internet age -- note how the Hungary protests are similar to the Hong Kong students holding their lit cell phones in the air (they did so for non-Internet, pro-democracy reasons). Again the parallels are striking. The United States also has corruption and a crisis of democracy. How dare the FCC Commissioners not listen to 4 million public comments in the rulemaking process on the future of the Internet and ignore millions of phone calls, emails and petitions prior to the rulemaking process even beginning. Chairman Tom Wheeler, should feel particular pressure because of his background as the former top lobbyist for the industry, a history which carries the stench of the widespread corruption that defines Washington, DC governance. . . A protest in Washington, DC like the ones in Hong Kong and Belgrade where net neutrality supporters rally at the White House in the evening with cell phone lights and then march to the FCC holding their lit cell phones. This could be followed by a second protest where people throw computer parts at the FCC. Everyone probably has old computers and phones that no longer work. A protest throwing broken computers and phones at the FCC could also be quite effective.

Free Press Activists Take Texas Net Neutrality Hearing By Storm

October 23, 2014 Julia Graber, www.freepress.net Organize! Free Press, Media, Net Neutrality

I gathered bright and early Tuesday morning with a crowd of fellow Net Neutrality supporters at Texas A&M University in College Station. Just three weeks ago, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai — an opponent of Net Neutrality — had announced plans to hold an open forum at Texas A&M on “Internet regulation.” In short order Free Press decided to hold a Net Neutrality rally beforehand right outside the event venue. We wanted to be sure our members and allies would have an opportunity to share their stories before heading into the forum. Many Free Press members had boarded buses at 5 or 6 a.m. to speak out for the open Internet, and they came from as far away as Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

FCC Used Title II To Fine AT&T & World Didn’t End

October 22, 2014 Mike Masnick, www.techdirt.com Educate! Law, Net Neutrality, Technology

You may have heard the story a few weeks ago about how the FCC and FTC teamed up to fine AT&T $105 million for mobile cramming (allowing unauthorized mobile charges for premium -- costly -- SMS, of which AT&T kept 35% of all money made). This was the largest fine the FCC has ever given out. Some, quite reasonably, pointed out that it took the FCC (and the FTC) quite a long time to catch up on this, as such practices had been called out for years and years. However, there was a much more interesting element to this fine, as it relates to the current net neutrality "Title II" fight. Remember, the telcos (including AT&T) are pretty adamant that if broadband is classified under Title II it will be the death of all good things. It will be a huge regulatory burden and companies like AT&T are likely to cease all investment and such. Similarly, AT&T and others insist that there's enough competition in the market to prevent anti-consumer practices, and that Title II simply isn't necessary in such a "competitive" market.

Inventor Of World Wide Web Warns Of Threat To Internet

September 29, 2014 AFP, www.news.yahoo.com Educate! Human Rights, Internet, Net Neutrality, Surveillance

The British inventor of the World Wide Web warned on Saturday that the freedom of the internet is under threat by governments and corporations interested in controlling the web. Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist who invented the web 25 years ago, called for a bill of rights that would guarantee the independence of the internet and ensure users' privacy. "If a company can control your access to the internet, if they can control which websites they go to, then they have tremendous control over your life," Berners-Lee said at the London "Web We Want" festival on the future of the internet.

OpenMedia Takes Your Voices To The FCC In Sacramento

September 29, 2014 Eva Prkachin, www.openmedia.org Organize! FCC, Media, Net Neutrality

OpenMedia partnered with Big Telecom -vs- The World allies at RootsAction, Credo, and DailyKos today to deliver over 400,000 petition signatures and comments against the Internet slow lane to decision-makers. This would never have happened without our community’s relentless pressure and generous support. The petition delivery took place in Sacramento, California, at an official forum organized by Congresswoman Doris Matsui, known for her outspoken defense of Net Neutrality. Rep. Matsui’s forum was attended by FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel.

We Are Winning Net Neutrality, But Haven’t Won Yet

September 25, 2014 Michael Copps, www.billmoyers.com Organize! FCC, Net Neutrality

Wow! — 3.7 million comments for Net neutrality and still counting. If the Inside the Beltway crowd thought this was not an issue all across America, they should be feeling disabused of that notion by now. I wish they had been with me one Saturday earlier this month at the Fighting Bob (La Follette) Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin. It’s a great annual event put on by the good folks at The Progressive. Thousands of people showed up to discuss America’s current political distemper and the urgent need for practical progressive reform. Running through the many Baraboo discussions and sessions was a strong commitment to an Internet that serves the needs of democracy and self-government and a media that reflects communities and diversity of political and cultural opinions. In fact, many of the attendees took out their cell phones onsite and contacted the FCC to urge strong Net neutrality rules.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – Congress Flees But We’re Still Fighting

September 19, 2014 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, ISIS, Net Neutrality, TPP, Wars and Militarism

Yesterday, Congress decided to leave town early and recess until after the elections in November. The good news is that they aren’t likely to do much more damage between now and November. We have time to put pressure on Congress and the White House on major issues and make those issues part of their campaigns. Join us in taking action to prevent the US from getting into another quagmire by putting a stop to the war on ISIS, calling on the FCC to get out of DC and listen to the people and organizing to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership from being Fast Tracked. We'll be in New York for a week full of education, organization and mobilization to solve the climate crisis.

Only Title II Will Ensure Fairness Among ISPs

September 17, 2014 Barbara van Schewick, www.thehill.com Educate! FCC, Net Neutrality

We know we need Title II, because the FCC has already tried other avenues without success. In 2010, the FCC used Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act to adopt the Open Internet Rules. These rules effectively banned access fees and certain forms of discrimination. But in January, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck them down. The court found that Section 706 does not allow the FCC to impose these kinds of rules on entities — such as ISPs — that are not legally classified as “common carriers” under Title II. The court is clear: If the FCC regulates under any authority other than Title II, it must give ISPs “substantial room” for “discrimination,” including “unreasonable discrimination,” plus the power to charge access fees. The court’s decision left the FCC with a clear solution. If the FCC wants meaningful network neutrality rules, it needs to reclassify ISPs as “common carriers” and adopt those rules under Title II.

Rallies Against Comcast Merger & For Net Neutrality Today

September 15, 2014 Julia Graber, www.freepress.net Resist! Comcast, Internet, Net Neutrality, Verizon

Today’s the final day to comment on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to create a two-tiered Internet — and at lunchtime I gathered with a crowd of 100 activists outside Comcast’s headquarters in Philadelphia. We were there for a Free Press rally to save the Internet ... and we came to demand real Net Neutrality and oppose the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Joseph Torres of Free Press, Bryan Mercer and Hannah Sassaman of the Media Mobilizing Project, Vanessa Graber of Common Frequency and Chris Rabb of Temple University all gave brief speeches, and then people in the crowd spoke out. We livestreamed everyone’s testimonials to a digital billboard our friends at Fight for the Future stationed right in front of the FCC building in Washington, D.C. “So far,” said Torres, “Tom Wheeler has sided with the big broadband companies, demonstrating just how out of touch he is. He doesn’t seem to understand why millions of people have called on him to protect real Net Neutrality by treating Internet service providers as common carriers.”

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