Net Neutrality

Mayors Pledge To Refuse Business From Vendors Opposed To Net Neutrality Rules

March 13, 2018 By Jake Williams, Statescoop.com Resist! Internet, Net Neutrality

A group of city and county leaders are encouraging others from around the country to join their "name and shame" campaign. Mayors of New York City, Austin, and Portland announced a new commitment Sunday to only work with vendors that honor net neutrality principles. “We will not do business with any vendor that does not honor net neutrality,” Bill de Blasio, New York City’s mayor, said Sunday on a panel at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin. “We need to name and shame any company that doesn’t honor net neutrality.” During the panel discussion, de Blasio announced mayorsfornetneutrality.org — a website where residents can encourage their own mayors sign up in support of net neutrality principles like those enforced by federal regulators during the Obama administration.

Protest Senator Kennedy’s Net Neutrality-Destroying Bill

March 10, 2018 Staff, PopularResistance.org Resist! FCC, Internet, Legislation, Net Neutrality

Politico is now reporting that Senator Kennedy says he is still considering supporting the CRA. If he truly cares about the open Internet, he should publicly state his support for the CRA and withdraw this legislation that would undermine net neutrality. Today Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana betrayed his constituents, Louisiana small businesses, and millions of Internet users by introducing a widely-criticized piece of net neutrality legislation for consideration in the Senate. The bill is a companion to legislation proposed by Rep Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), one of the most notorious anti-Internet lawmakers in Congress, who has taken more than $600,000 from the telecom lobby and is widely perceived as a shill for the industry.

Open Internet Advocates Pressure US Senators Before Midterms

March 6, 2018 Creede Newton, Aljazeera.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, Senate

As the clock ticks on the effort to restore net neutrality, advocates see hope in using the midterm elections in the US to hold elected representatives feet to the fire of the public's demands. Net neutrality is a policy that guarantees internet service providers (ISPs) will treat all data fairly without blocking or "throttling" certain data streams. In December, the Federal Communications Commission voted to undo a 2015 rule that enshrined the policy. But polls show that net neutrality receives bipartisan support. A University of Maryland poll from December showed that 83 percent of US voters support the "open internet", and some legislators are listening. Senator Ed Markey introduced on Tuesday a Congressional Review Act (CRA), a measure that allows Congress to use an expedited legal process to review new regulations, to reverse the FCC's decision to end net neutrality.

It’s Time To Show Up For An Open Internet

March 3, 2018 Gabriella Anaïs Deal-Márquez, Centerformediajustice.org Organize! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, Protest Demonstrations

I am grateful to the elders in my family line that have taught me the power of telling our stories. As a daughter of artist activists I was raised knowing that the resistance in your art and storytelling matters, and that there is great responsibility in telling stories that contest violence and injustice. I know this is right, but I also know that as activists, artists, organizers, culture makers, we can’t share our narratives and collective visions for our future without open, accessible platforms. This past December the FCC voted to disband net neutrality. What does this mean? It means we would no longer have an open internet. Net Neutrality are rules that would make the internet easily accessible for everyone to use as an open platform to communicate. Net Neutrality rules protections prevent internet service providers from creating a hierarchy of access based on how much you pay for their services.

More Than A Million Mobilize For Net Neutrality

February 28, 2018 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Resist! Congressional Review Act, Internet, Net Neutrality

Tuesday was a national day of action urging congress to pass a resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) rejecting the FCC's new rule that ends net neutrality. Numerous advocacy groups (including Popular Resistance and our Protect Our Internet campaign), individuals, corporations and websites participated. Reddit, Slashdot, Change.org, Sonic, Sonos and Etsy and were among about 1,500 websites who participated. We are one vote away from passing the resolution in the Senate. As a result, the Internet coalition organized the #OneMoreVote national day of action. People used the Battle for the Net’s #OneMoreVote campaign to encourage their Senators to support the CRA. In the House, Representative Mike Doyle (PA-14) has 150 co-sponsors on his CRA bill. A majority of House members are needed to move forward.

Operation: #OneMoreVote

February 10, 2018 Staff, Fightforthefuture.org Resist! Congress, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Protest planning, led by Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press Action Fund, has just begun, but already well known companies like Etsy, Medium, Vimeo, Imgur, Namecheap and Sonos have announced their participation, along with groups like Consumer Reports, the ACLU, Common Cause, Engine, and Daily Kos. Many other participants will be announced in the coming days. 50 Senators have already come out in support of the CRA, which would overturn the FCC’s December 14 decision and restore net neutrality protections that prevent Internet providers from controlling the web with throttling, censorship, and new fees. The February 27 push is laser focused on securing the final vote needed to pass the resolution in the Senate.

Congressional Review Act Of Net Neutrality Clock About To Begin

February 6, 2018 Ali Breland, Thehill.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality, Senate

The Senate has received the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) official notice of measures to scrap net neutrality rules, two congressional sources confirmed. The notice is one of the first procedural steps in starting the 60-day deadline Congress has to stop the FCC’s net neutrality repeal with the Congressional Review Act (CRA). The House must also receive notice, and it must be published in the Federal Register for the rest of the process to start. Sources said that it has yet to be determined when this will happen but noted it could be as early as Friday or next week. After the 60-day deadline, Congress would no longer be able to use a CRA resolution to stop the FCC’s plan from continuing. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who is spearheading the CRA in the Senate, currently has 50 votes, including Republican Sen. Susan Collins (Maine), but is still one vote short of what’s needed to pass the measure.

Net Neutrality Activist ‘Throttles’ Street Traffic Outside FCC Building

January 31, 2018 Tristan Greene, Thenextweb.com Resist! Activists, FCC, Net Neutrality

While the rest of you were crying into your cruelty-free glasses of vegan pond-water over the repeal of net neutrality, humanitarian and activist Rob Bliss was restoring freedom to American roads. Instead of allowing traffic to rely on government regulations and oversight, Bliss decided the street in front of the FCC building in Washington D.C. needed a fast lane. So he created one. Using his bicycle to ‘throttle’ a lane of traffic, he offered commuters the opportunity to pay a simple $5 fee to take advantage of the newly created “fast lane.” Bliss, like Ajit Pai, isn’t a professional engineer or expert on the flow of traffic, but that didn’t stop either of them from “fixing” problems only they could see.

More Than 750 Communities Have Created Internet Networks

January 25, 2018 Staff, Muninetworks.org Educate! Internet, Net Neutrality, Telecommunications

A new map from Community Networks shows that more communities than ever are building their own broadband networks to end big telecom's monopoly. Communities invest in telecommunications networks for a variety of reasons - economic development, improving access to education and health care, price stabilization, etc. They range from massive networks offering a gig to hundreds of thousands in Tennessee to small towns connecting a few local businesses. This map tracks a variety of ways in which local governments have invested in wired telecommunications networks as well as state laws that discourage such approaches. Our map includes more than 750 communities...

Burger King Loves Net Neutrality (?!) And Other Whoppers

January 25, 2018 Craig Aaron, Freepress.net Educate! Fast Food, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

Some buzz-killers are complaining that Burger King doesn’t really care about Net Neutrality and is just trying to exploit a hot-button topic. To them, I say: I know! Isn’t it great?! Net Neutrality is so popular right now that it’s being used to sell hamburgers. This supposedly obscure issue, one that all the political experts spent years trying to dismiss and rename, is so prominent that Burger-freaking-King wants a piece of it. Right now Net Neutrality ranks high on the list of concerns of millennial voters — right up there with marijuana legalization. If nothing else, BK knows its target demo. The unprecedented public response since Ajit Pai’s FCC moved to kill Net Neutrality in December has now seized the attention of Madison Avenue. This is new territory. And it’s delicious.

States And Cities Keep Battle For Net Neutrality Alive

January 25, 2018 By Klint Finley, Wired.com Create! Cities, FCC, Internet, Net Neutrality

STATES ARE STARTING to make good on their promises to fight for net neutrality in the wake of the Federal Communications Commission's decision to jettison rules that banned broadband providers from blocking or discriminating against internet content. On Monday, Montana Governor Steve Bullock signed an executive order effectively barring state agencies from doing business with internet service providers that violate net neutrality. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a similar order on Wednesday. The moves follow a lawsuit filed last week by 21 states and the District of Columbia challenging the FCC's decision to overturn its own protections. Montana is the first state to take action to encourage broadband providers to follow the principles of net neutrality, but others, including California, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington are considering legislative action.

AT&T Pushing False Internet Bill of Rights

January 25, 2018 Kevin Zeese, Popular Resistance Resist! Internet, Net Neutrality

AT&T worked hard to get the FCC to repeal Title II Net Neutrality but now is trying to fool people with full page advertisements calling for an Internet Bill of Rights. Of course, the reality is Title Net Neutrality was a bill of rights for Internet users. AT&T hopes to find bought off members of Congres to introduce their version which should be more accurately described as the Telecom's Bill of Rights. Fight for the Future claimed "AT&T’s announcement also comes off as a bit of a joke at this moment, given that their lobbyists are shocked by the momentum of the Congressional Review Act resolutions to outright block the FCC’s repeal." Evan Greer, campaign director, for Fight for the Future said "We had an Internet bill of rights. It was called Title II and AT&T’s army of lobbyists did everything in their power to burn it down. It would be a lot easier to take AT&T at their word if they hadn’t spent more than $16 million last year alone lobbying to kill net neutrality and privacy protections for Internet users."

Montana Enacts Net Neutrality, Provides Template For Other States To Follow

January 24, 2018 Phillip Tracy, Dailydot.com Resist! FCC, Montana, Net Neutrality

The state’s governor, Steve Bullock, signed an executive order Monday that effectively reinstates net neutrality principles dismantled by the Federal Communications Commission(FCC) in December. Montana will curtail the power of internet service providers (ISPs) by preventing those with a state contract to block or charge more for faster speeds to certain websites. “There has been a lot of talk around the country about how to respond to the recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission to repeal net neutrality rules, which keep the internet free and open. It’s time to actually do something about it,” Bullock said in a statement. “This is a simple step states can take to preserve and protect net neutrality. We can’t wait for folks in Washington, D.C., to come to their senses and reinstate these rules.”

Lawsuits Try Stopping FCC From Killing Open Internet

January 19, 2018 By Monique Judge, Theroot.com Resist! FCC, Internet, Lawsuit, Net Neutrality

As Democrats in the Senate work to push forward a resolution that would stop the Federal Communications Commission from killing net neutrality and ending the open and free internet for everyone, multiple lawsuits were filed Tuesday by different groups with that same goal in mind. A group of attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block the FCC’s new rules from going into effect, the Associated Press reports. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said that the FCC made “arbitrary and capricious” changes to existing policies and was unjustified in departing from the FCC’s long-standing policy of defending net neutrality. Schneiderman was joined in the lawsuit by the attorneys general representing California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and the District of Columbia.

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