Net Neutrality

Net Neutrality Biggest Issue Ever Before FCC — By Far!

July 16, 2014 Craig Aaron, www.huffingtonpost.com Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Millions have urged the FCC to put in place net neutrality. By the end of the day on July 15, the FCC had received more than 780,000 public comments on its Net Neutrality-killing proposal -- a huge number that would have been much higher if the agency's site hadn't broken down repeatedly (forcing the FCC to extend the comment deadline until midnight on Friday). Within two weeks of the January federal appeals court decision to toss out the agency's open Internet rules, Free Press and a coalition of allies delivered 1 million petitions for strong Net Neutrality protections to the FCC. By the time the FCC voted to put out new rules for public comment on May 15, another 2.4 million people had taken action for real Net Neutrality. Many more have spoken out since then. But this week's deadline is just the first round. The FCC welcomes reply comments until September. And the public can and should keep weighing in until the agency actually votes on new rules, which isn't expected to happen until November or December at the earliest. Here's the bottom line: By any measure, this marks the greatest public response to any rulemaking in the FCC's history.

Investors Urge FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

July 15, 2014 Open Mic, www.openmic.org Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Shareholder activism

A group of investment firms and foundations with widely-diversified investment portfolios today called upon the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt network neutrality rules that would protect an open Internet. They recommended reclassification of broadband Internet service under Title II of the Communications Act, giving the FCC clear regulatory authority over the Internet network infrastructure that serves millions of individuals, entrepreneurs and established businesses throughout the U.S. Network neutrality is the principle that all Internet content and applications should be treated equally regardless of the source. It prohibits blocking and discrimination and bars Internet service providers from offering paid priority “fast lanes” for some content. “We believe open Internet policies help drive the economy, encourage innovation and reward investors,” the group said. The FCC filing highlighted the importance of network neutrality rules for start-up and technology companies as well as small and medium-sized businesses and companies that address critical needs such as healthcare, education and banking.

Major Internet Corporations Call For Net Neutrality

July 15, 2014 Educate! Corporations, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The Internet Association today submitted its comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging Commissioners to take strong and decisive action to guarantee an open Internet for the future. The Internet Association’s comments mark the first time that more than two dozen of the world’s most-recognizable and successful Internet companies have spoken with a unified voice on the issue of Net Neutrality. “Segregation of the Internet into fast lanes and slow lanes will distort the market, discourage innovation and harm Internet users,” said Michael Beckerman, President and CEO of The Internet Association. “The FCC must act to create strong, enforceable net neutrality rules and apply them equally to both wireless and wireline providers. The Internet Association’s comments to the FCC can be distilled into three key tenets necessary to secure and preserve an open Internet for the future: 1. Internet Users Should Get What They Want, When They Want It The Internet should be free from censorship, discrimination and anticompetitive behavior, protected by simple and enforceable rules that ensure a consumer’s equal access to the content they want.

Cartoon: Understanding Net Neutrality

July 8, 2014 Michael Goodwin, www.economixcomix.com Educate! Corporatism, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Net neutrality doesn't sound very exciting, but if we lose it, a lot of people will be upset. Michael Goodwin, in collaboration with artist Ian Akin, explains just what net neutrality means and why we should all care about it in the following cartoon. Right now, the Internet is a place we can all go an explore. It is a place where we can find information, share ideas, communicate and collaborate and importantly for Popular Resistance, organize. It is an essential tool in our lives where people find things they need and sign up for services. Can you imagine if instead of a public highway, it started to function as a restricted toll road? We have until July 15 to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission to tell them that the Internet was created with public dollars and it belongs to all of us. Go to FCC.gov/comments and click on proceeding 14-28.

Kickstarter Explains Why FCC Must Protect Internet

July 5, 2014 Yancey Strickler, www.washingtonpost.com Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

The world was introduced to Kickstarter when our Web site went live in 2009. But the idea had been around much longer: Company co-founder Perry Chen came up with it in 2001. The eight intervening years were spent doggedly trying to overcome the many obstacles that stood in its way. One thing we didn’t have to worry about: access to the Internet. We didn’t have to negotiate a deal with a cable company or other Internet service provider (ISP). We didn’t have to hire lawyers to appeal to the Federal Communications Commission when we were offered an unfair price. We didn’t have to worry about whether our site’s content would be slower than a competitor that had some kind of exclusive “fast lane” deal. Such roadblocks would have created enormous logistical and financial hurdles — ones so big they might have shut us down before we got started. But that’s the world that start-ups will be born into if the FCC moves forward with its proposed rules allowing paid prioritization — a system where Internet carriers can charge for access to a “fast lane.”

Democracy Rebellion Begins To Roll

July 4, 2014 Bill Moyer, www.BackboneCampaign.org Organize! Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Elections, Money As Speech, Net Neutrality, oligarchy, Plutocracy

Rolling Rebellion actions have begun. Light Projections around the Capitol by Backbone Campaign, Popular Resistance's "Which Side Are You On Tom?" musical asking FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to stand with the people and declare independence from the telecoms, and Money Out of Politics projection actions across Baltimore by the Rolling Rebellion for a Real Democracy Luminous Intervention. The US Democracy Movement is growing. It is creatively Declaring Independence from the oligarchy and their corporate state. Getting Money Out of Politics is one essential component of battling the corruption of our political, legal and economic systems. People around the country are embracing and insisting upon the self-evident,endowed by creator, unalienable rights which the Declaration of Independence celebrated and promised to uphold.

Which Side Are You On, Tom Wheeler?

July 3, 2014 Aitza Haddad, www.freepress.net Resist! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Protest, Tom Wheeler

Net Neutrality activists had one simple question for the FCC chairman yesterday: What side are you on, Tom? Net Neutrality supporters Popular Resistance organized political street theater outside the FCC on Tuesday. The goal: Urge Chairman Tom Wheeler to reclassify Internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers. It's the only real way to protect Net Neutrality and ban a play-for-play Internet. They were joined by Code Pink, Free Press, the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press and other Net Neutrality activists outside the FCC. Net Neutrality activists held signs high: "HONK for Net Neutrality," "One Internet for Everyone," "Reclassify the Internet as a Common Carrier," and "NO to Internet Discrimination." Many FCC staffers looked on as they headed out for lunch. Activists also sung chants, which included a remix of a popular Queen song: Tom, are you a slick man, bought man Lobby for your fat cat friends, slipping tiered net rules End Neutrality No equality Just profits for the telecom industry We will, we will, rock you.

FCC Internet Proposal: The Contemporary Pillage Of The Commons

June 30, 2014 Rivera Sun, www.truth-out.org Educate! Commons, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Seething below the surface of citizens' outrage at the FCC proposal to create a tiered, pay-to-play internet structure lays a story people know so well, it could be encoded in our DNA. The rich and powerful are stealing the commons of the people. Comcast, Verizon and other telecom giants are the new Lairds of the Highlands, the Marie Antoinettes, the Robber Barons of the 1890s. The Commons are no longer large tracks of land or public grazing grounds or local self-governance - those have already been stolen. The Commons under assault is the internet. As with every achievement of humanity, individual sectors of the populace try to take credit and ownership of the internet, saying, "I created this" or "I provide the infrastructure for your access." This is akin to saying, "I built the Empire State Building" instead of "thousands of hardworking, impoverished Americans poured the concrete and scaled the steel trusses; countless educators and inventors passed the knowledge of engineering to the designers; and the banks financed the construction with funds from war profiteering that was made on the bloodshed of millions."

Will Tom Wheeler Be On The Side Of ‘Media Justice’?

June 26, 2014 Elias Weston-Farber, www.PopularResistance.or Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Tom Wheeler will be visiting the state this coming Monday, June 30th, to have a dialogue directly with New Mexico youth about Internet and media issues for the first time. We talked to the Campaign Coordinator of Media Literacy Project Alanna Offield about this interesting event. Media Literacy Project specifically is interested in pursuing ‘media justice,’ which Offield describes as: “making sure that all of the families and all of the individuals in our community have the tools that they need to access, analyze and create their own media that reflects their lived experience.” They create advocates for media justice through education about how the media works: “We look at what are the images we see in the media be it advertisements, television, or movies and we start to ask critical questions like, what are we being sold here? Who is this message for? What techniques of persuasion are being used?

Take Action: Tell Google Join Net Neutrality Campaign

June 26, 2014 Fight For The Future, www.fight4future.tumblr.com Organize! Google, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Protesters Arrested

Net neutrality protesters arrested late last night at Google headquarters. Fight for the Future supports actions for net freedom, asks Google to dialogue with activists. On Tuesday, June 24th, a group of activists set up tents and banners in front of Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA, announcing their protest online at http://OccupyGoogle.org and tweeting from @OccupyGoogl Late last night, 10 activists, including a journalist who was livestreaming the event, were arrested for trespassing. We at Fight for the Future congratulate these people who are speaking out at this important time. It gives us hope for the future of the web to see young Internet freedom activists so passionate about this issue — and we hope that Google will sit down and talk with them and listen to what they have to say, rather than resort to involving law enforcement.

Occupy Google, Defend Net Neutrality!

June 25, 2014 Occupy Google, www.occupygoogle.org Resist! Google, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Occupy

A U.S. Court of Appeals ruling in January gave Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T the power to slow down or block Internet traffic. ISPs can now discriminate between data on any grounds, charging different rates based on content, or censoring webpages altogether, effectively ending free speech on the Internet. ISPs have something that companies like Facebook and Google don't - direct control over your physical connection to the Internet. Now that there are no legal restraints to stop them, ISPs are free to monitor everything you do and say online, and sell your information to the highest bidder. In 2012, Google created a petition as part of a campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect Intellectual Property Act that collected over 7 million signatures. The massive online resistance in opposition to these two monstrous bills stopped them from becoming a reality. Today, the internet is once again under attack, this time by ISP’s who wish to capitalize on content providers and eliminate net neutrality. Though Google and other major companies such as Netflix, Amazon and Microsoft have come out in support of preserving a free and open web, we believe much more can be done.

The Case For Net Neutrality

June 18, 2014 Marvin Ammori, www.foreignaffairs.com Educate! Barack Obama, FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure of Barack Obama’s presidency. That inauspicious distinction belongs to his administration’s incompetence in another area: reneging on Obama’s signature pledge to ensure “net neutrality,” the straightforward but powerful idea that Internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all traffic that goes through their networks the same. Net neutrality holds that ISPs shouldn’t offer preferential treatment to some websites over others or charge some companies arbitrary fees to reach users. By this logic, AT&T, for example, shouldn’t be allowed to grant iTunes Radio a special “fast lane” for its data while forcing Spotify to make do with choppier service. On the campaign trail in 2007, Obama called himself “a strong supporter of net neutrality” and promised that under his administration, the Federal Communications Commission would defend that principle. But in the last few months, his FCC appears to have given up on the goal of maintaining an open Internet. This past January, a U.S. federal appeals court, in a case brought by Verizon, struck down the net neutrality rules adopted by the FCC in 2010, which came close to fulfilling Obama’s pledge despite a few loopholes.

Open Letter To FCC Employees On Real Net Neutrality

June 16, 2014 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Organize! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Whistleblowers

Dear FCC Employees, We have spent a good deal of time at the FCC camping in front of the Maine Ave. entrance, leafleting and rallying to reclassify the Internet as a common carrier. First, we want to thank you for your support. Overwhelmingly employees at the FCC have supported an Internet free of discrimination. Many of you want what is best for the country – that the greatest communication tool ever invented continue to be a source for democratization of mass communication, creative entrepreneurship and a platform for growth and creativity. Second, we want you to know you are not alone. You are not alone inside the FCC nor are you alone among the American people. After our encampment and hundreds of thousands of emails and phone calls, the FCC Commissioners voted to allow reclassifying the Internet as a common carrier to be included in the rulemaking process.

Dangers Of A World Without Net Neutrality

June 15, 2014 April Glaser of EFF, www.truthout.org Educate! FCC, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality

Last month the FCC released its proposal for America's new network neutrality rules. Unfortunately, the agency's proposal included rules that would permit Internet providers to prioritize certain websites, e.g., make deals with some services for a faster and better path to subscribers. While the FCC claims it is not endorsing such deals, the proposed rules will inevitably be read as exactly that. The parties most threatened by this kind of network discrimination are those who are trying to make novel and unanticipated uses of the network and who cannot afford payola. But innovators need more than a level playing field – they need specific details about how Internet providers manage their networks so that they can figure out how best to maintain current offerings and develop new products. To see why, let's fill in some blanks.

Comcast’s False Promise To Poor Americans Of Cheap Internet

June 12, 2014 Allan Holmes, www.publicintegrity.org Educate! FCC, Internet, Internet Freedom, Net Neutrality, Poverty

As Comcast Corp. tries to convince the federal government to permit it to buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for $45 billion, opponents of the deal will inevitably bring up people like Ed. Every morning at 8:15, Ed climbs into his red, 1999 Mazda sedan and drives 15 miles down Main Street in Scranton, Pa. He passes mom-and-pop sandwich shops, a shuttered elementary school and a computerized shooting gallery for archery on his way to a friend’s 86-year-old house where coal miners once lived — and where there’s an Internet connection. Ed, who comes here because he can’t afford the parking fees at a library six miles away, first reads his email and then turns his attention to job sites such as snapjobsearch, glassdoor, Monster and Craigslist. He’s been following this routine for nearly four years, looking for an opening in the hotel or restaurant business where he’s got some experience, but he has yet to land a job. Without the Internet connection, he’d have no hope.

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