Net Neutrality

Send Your Video Directly To FCC On Giant Screen

September 14, 2014 Free Press, www.fightforthefuture.org Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Sept. 15 is the deadline for final comments on Wheeler’s proposal — and while big broadband providers like Comcast are lobbying overtime to push this plan forward, we can’t let them have the last word. To that end we’ve organized big lunchtime rallies in New York City and Philadelphiato save Net Neutrality and fight the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. On September 16th, internet freedom supporters will gather at 11:45am at the FCC building in Washington, DC, and our friends from Namecheap will be there with a giant video-billboard playing net neutrality videos on a loop! Want your video projected on the billboard? Email it to ted@namecheap.com Your voice is essential right now.

Popular Resistance Newsletter: We Believe That We Will Win

September 13, 2014 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Democracy, Education, Internet, Net Neutrality

This was a very busy week, with lots of actions on a variety of issues. We can’t cover them all in one newsletter. Before we go in depth on a few key issues of the week we want to highlight one event which we found to be inspiring. The Newark Students Union walked out of their classes for two days. On the first day they rallied at a park where they held classes on the history of student protests, a ‘know your rights’ training and artistic activism; and shared their lunch with the homeless. The second day, they went to the office of the Newark Public Schools and blockaded an intersection. For nearly 12 hours they locked arms some in PVC tubes and snarled traffic in downtown Newark. There demands were for local control of schools and stopping the privatization and corporatization Newark schools. After holding a blockade for nearly 12 hours, the students released their arms and formed a group hug chanting “I believe that we will win! I believe that we will win!”

Rally With #TeamInternet On September 15

September 12, 2014 Amy Kroin, www.freepress.net Resist! Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Sept. 15 is the deadline for final comments on Wheeler’s proposal — and while big broadband providers like Comcast are lobbying overtime to push this plan forward, we can’t let them have the last word. To that end we’ve organized big lunchtime rallies in New York City and Philadelphia to save Net Neutrality and fight the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. Your voice is essential right now. If you don’t live in New York or Philly, you can organize a rally in your own community. It’s a pretty easy process and we’ve put together a handy toolkit with all the info you need to launch your own event. All of us on #TeamInternet have made a ton of noise since Wheeler proposed his rules — sending record-breaking numbers of comments to the FCC, rallying in Washington, D.C., and California, meeting with our elected officials to push them to stand up for real Net Neutrality.

The #InternetSlowdown Was Epic

September 12, 2014 Candace Clement, www.freepress.net Organize! Direct Action, FCC, Net Neutrality

The Internet Slowdown surpassed all of our (already high) expectations. It drove more than 2 million emails and nearly 300,000 calls (averaging 1,000 per minute) to Congress. On top of that so many pro-Net Neutrality comments were filed (722,364 to be exact) that the FCC's site broke (again). Politicians in both the House and Senate got in on the action, major websites spread the word, and by midday it was impossible to keep up with the #NetNeutrality traffic on Twitter. As huge as the slowdown was, it was just the beginning. Here's a sneak peek at what's up next: ▪ Final deadline for comments to the FCC. It's coming up on Monday ... so submit your comment if you haven't already and tell all your friends to do the same. ▪ Save the Internet lunchtime rallies in New York City and Philly. Live nearby? Join us this Monday at 12:30 p.m. ▪ Net Neutrality Action at the FCC. Thousands across the country have called for public hearings on Net Neutrality. On Sept. 16, we'll bring that message right to the FCC's doorstep.

Largest Online Advocacy Groups To FCC: Get Out Of D.C.

September 10, 2014 Timothy Karr, www.freepress.net Organize! FCC, Net Neutrality, Protest

WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, 27 of the nation’s largest online advocacy groups submitted a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the agency to participate in at least four town hall-style public hearings outside the Beltway before ruling on Chairman Wheeler’s Internet proposal. Earlier this year the FCC put out its proposed rules for public comment. Since then, more than a million individual comments have been submitted. Analysis of the FCC docket has found near-unanimous support for Net Neutrality protections. “Commenters have also overwhelmingly rejected the agency’s proposal to base an Open Internet rule on Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act,” the advocacy organizations write. The groups, which represent more than 20 million people, note a “considerable divide” between Chairman Wheeler's proposal — which would allow Internet service providers to discriminate in favor of content from wealthy companies — and the Net Neutrality protections the public wants. “The millions of people commenting on this issue have been very clear: The open Internet must be protected. Your agency owes it to the public to convene hearings on Net Neutrality and hear their voices before the Commission makes a final decision.”

Right Now, The Internet Needs Your Help To Survive

September 9, 2014 Alexis Ohanian, www.theverge.com Resist! Internet, Net Neutrality

Today, I am calling on my fellow founders and investors (and anyone who loves the Internet) to join me in fighting to protect net neutrality. Internet freedom activists have organized a day of mass action to protect net neutrality on Wednesday, September 10th. On that day, every large company, every startup, and anyone with a blog or website should use tools available here (or create tools of their own) to organize their users to become an army of citizen-lobbyists. The internet needs you. For those who don’t know me, Steve Huffman and I co-founded Reddit, one of the top 50 websites on the internet. Today’s internet is the most democratic vehicle for free expression the world has ever known. It’s an open and free market for small and large businesses, giving any inventor in her garage the hope that she’s creating tomorrow’s Google or next year’s Facebook. It’s where we build friendships, conduct commerce, create and destroy; it’s where we live more and more of our lives everyday.

Big Telecom VS The World

September 8, 2014 Open Media, www.bigtelecomvstheworld.org Petitions and Online Actions Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Big Telecom and their lobbyists want to control your Internet and make online services more expensive. So far, ‘Net Neutrality’ rules in several countries have banned their interference.5 But under pressure from lobbyists, leaders from several countries are considering implementing these Internet slow lane plans.6 If we don’t speak out for the open Internet now, it will be hard to turn back. This is why we need you to voice support for net neutrality and stop the Internet slow lane before it’s too late. After you sign on, we’ll deliver your voice directly to decision-makers.

Online Protest In Support Of Net Neutrality Planned For Sept. 10

September 5, 2014 Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Activism, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Web activists are planning an online protest for next week to press federal regulators for stronger rules to protect net neutrality, or the idea that all web content should be treated equally. The activists are asking websites and social networks to join the protest on Sept. 10 by embedding special code on their sites depicting a “loading” icon, which they say symbolizes how Internet traffic could be slowed down if regulators don't create stronger net neutrality rules. The code would also give visitors a way to submit comments supporting net neutrality to the Federal Communications Commission and to elected officials. The groups organizing the protest include Demand Progress, a political action group focused on shaping debate on Internet policy, Free Press, a consumer group, and Fight for the Future, a nonprofit that assisted with the organization of online protests in 2012 that helped derail the controversial anti-piracy bills called SOPA and PIPA. The organizers said “many” tech companies and social networks are planning to participate in the protest, which they’re calling an “Internet slow down," but declined to name them until later this week. “Cable companies want to slow down (and break!) your favorite sites, for profit,” the groups said on their website, battleforthenet.com. “To fight back, let's cover the web with 'loading' icons, to remind everyone what an Internet without net neutrality would look like, and drive record numbers of emails and calls to lawmakers.”

What Can We Learn From 800,000 Comments On Net Neutrality?

September 5, 2014 Bob Lannon and Andrew Pendleton, www.sunlightfoundation.com Educate! Data, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

On Aug. 5, the Federal Communications Commission announced the bulk release of the comments from its largest-ever public comment collection. We've spent the last three weeks cleaning and preparing the data and leveraging our experience in machine learning and natural language processing to try and make sense of the hundreds-of-thousands of comments in the docket. Here is a high-level overview, as well as our cleaned version of the full corpus which is available for download in the hopes of making further research easier. Our first exploration uses natural language processing techniques to identify topical keywords within comments and use those keywords to group comments together. We analyzed a corpus of 800,959 comments. Some key findings: We estimate that less than 1 percent of comments were clearly opposed to net neutrality1. At least 60 percent of comments submitted were form letters written by organized campaigns (484,692 comments); while these make up the majority of comments, this is actually a lower percentage than is common for high-volume regulatory dockets. At least 200 comments came from law firms, on behalf of themselves or their clients. Below is an interactive visualization that lets you explore these groupings and view individual comments within the groups.

With 2 Weeks To Go, Net Neutrality Battle Heats Up

September 4, 2014 Jason Abbruzzese, www.mashable.com Organize! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Regulation

With less than two weeks until the end of the comment period on proposed Internet regulations, both sides of the debate are pushing publicity campaigns aimed at swaying the net neutrality debate. The battle has coalesced around a particular issue: the reclassification of broadband Internet, a move that would either maintain an open and equal web or destroy it, depending on which side of the debate is lobbying. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler has publicly stated that it could vote to reclassify broadband as a utility, bringing Internet providers under more stringent regulations. See also: FCC and Net Neutrality: What You Need to Know A new "don't break the Internet" campaign launched on Tuesday with a website that seeks to push back against calls for the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify. Drawing on the words of net neutrality advocates like Tim Wu, Lawrence Lessig and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the site makes plain its stance at the top.

Sept.10: Join Huge Online Action For Net Neutrality

September 4, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Imagine all your favorite websites taking forever to load, while you get annoying notifications from your ISP suggesting you switch to one of their approved “Fast Lane” sites. Think about what we would lose: all the weird, alternative, interesting, and enlightening stuff that makes the Internet so much cooler than mainstream Cable TV. What if the only news sites you could reliably connect to were the ones that had deals with companies like Comcast and Verizon? How would your worldview be different? Do you think you’d have found Fight for the Future, Popular Resistance or other causes you care about? On September 10th, just a few days before the FCC’s comment deadline, public interest organizations are issuing an open, international call for websites and internet users to unite for an “Internet Slowdown” to show the world what the web would be like if Team Cable gets their way and trashes net neutrality.

Meet The Two Women Who Hold The Future Of The Internet In Their Hands

September 3, 2014 Ryan Grim and Sabrina Siddiqui, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

One of the most consequential decisions Washington is set to make in 2014 won't come out of the White House, Congress, or any of the nation's boardrooms, but rather from a nondescript federal building along the city's southwest waterfront. It's here, in the offices of the Federal Communications Commission, that the fate of the Internet will be decided. The FCC is currently revising rules on "net neutrality" -- or the idea that all web traffic should be treated equally -- after a federal court in January struck down a regulation that forced Internet service providers to abide by the principle. But the court allowed the FCC to go back to the drawing board and craft new net neutrality rules under a different statute that would pass muster. In April, agency Chairman Tom Wheeler introduced a draft proposal that would still effectively end net neutrality, though he puzzlingly claimed in public that it would not. Wheeler is looked to as the linchpin to the Internet's fate. But the FCC board is made up of five people: Wheeler, two other Democrats and two Republicans. This group will vote on the next version of the rules, and its members could enshrine net neutrality into law if they so choose. The two Republican appointees to the FCC are unlikely to back Wheeler. Republicans of all stripes oppose net neutrality on principle -- a business, the thinking goes, should more or less be able to charge for anything the market will pay for. Republican opposition means Wheeler will need the support of his Democratic colleagues on the panel if he does want to protect net neutrality.

The Defining Battle for Net Neutrality

August 30, 2014 Eva Prkachin, www.openmedia.org Resist! Civil Liberties, FCC, Net Neutrality, Petition

The world needs a hero, and that hero is you. Our worldwide web is currently dangling above an alligator-filled moat, tied to the train tracks, strapped to a live bomb (tick-tock), and rapidly headed towards gory destruction at the end of a Comcast/Bell/ [insert-your-country's-biggest-telco-name-here]-branded conveyor belt. Time of death: 12:00am. Cause of death: Big Telecom, aggressive lobbying, money and power imbalances, and a misguided FCC net neutrality decision that ignores over 1.1 million comments and counting from everyday Internet users like you. You know how Facebook asked Page owners to pay up if they wanted their content to actually show up on people's news feeds? Without Net Neutrality, the entire Internet would be like that, for all content ever. Cable company f***ery, indeed. But it doesn’t have to turn out that way. The battle for Net Neutrality is ours to win. Reinforcements pour in every day. We've gained reprieves in the form of not one, but two deadline extensions – a sign that the FCC recognizes how important Net Neutrality is, and how many people care about it. This battle may be located in the United States, but make no mistake—its outcome will affect the entire world.

FCC Names Network Neutrality Expert As CTO

August 29, 2014 Brian Santo, www.cedmagazine.com Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Technology

Scott Jordan, a professor at University of California at Irvine with a strong history working on network neutrality issues, was named the new chief technology officer (CTO) of the FCC. For those who try to read tea leaves, Jordan’s appointment might be a signal that FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is serious about exploring the possibility of reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service, even as the Republican contingent among his fellow Commissioners have been vehemently dismissing the idea. Jordan succeeds Henning Schulzrinne, who will return to Columbia University and continue to serve the Commission in a part-time capacity as a technology advisor. Jordan is a professor of computer science at UC Irvine. His research interests include communications policy, pricing and differentiated services in the Internet, and resource allocation in wireless multimedia networks, the FCC said. Jordan has also developed specific expertise in network neutrality issues, developing what one bio calls “moderate” network neutrality policies. That includes proposals for policy founded on network architectures that encourage development of network management for multimedia applications while prohibiting anti-competitive behavior or, as one of his papers puts it, the extraction of oligopoly rents. In other words, he’s been attempting to help formulate policy that would have strong consumer protections but which would not interfere with network operations or management.

The Biggest Lie About Net Neutrality

August 20, 2014 Timothy Karr, www.huffingtonpost.com Educate! FCC, Law, Net Neutrality, Regulation

One of the most persistent lies told in Washington is the notion that common carriage is a heavy-handed regulation that transforms innovative businesses into antiquated, government-run utilities. Any mention of restoring this time-tested principle to the Internet causes fits among phone and cable industry lobbyists. It's a debate now raging throughout the record number of comments filed at the Federal Communications Commission, which has put the issue of common carriage back "on the table" as it weighs new rules to protect Net Neutrality. The conversation has also spilled into the media, where attacking common carriage has become fodder for industry-friendly editorial writers and pundits. Listening to their arguments is like eating tainted food. All seems well at first bite. But given time to digest, things don't feel so settled.

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