Swarfendor437
Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:33:42 pm
Lobby your Congress now as net neutrality is under final threat - again! Here is the latest e-mail I received from fightforthefuture.org:
"J,
It’s official: top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has scheduled the vote to overturn net neutrality on December 14.[1] Now is our last chance to stop them from killing the Internet as we know it.
We have just one month left to mobilize the grassroots backlash needed to flip key members of Congress and get them to stop the FCC from moving forward with the vote. This has happened before. It is possible for Congress to stop this rogue FCC from gutting consumer and free speech protections at the behest of big telecom companies.
We’re hearing again and again that the calls. Are. Working. But we need more of them to get to the level of “pandemonium” required to get the necessary members of Congress to step in and stop the FCC.
Our BattleForTheNet.com 1-click call tool is connecting hundreds of thousands of phone calls with senators and representatives. As we approach the vote, we need to drive more calls every day, which means we need to raise more funds to cover the costs of connecting the calls (they add up!).
Yes, I'll chip in to keep the phones in DC ringing and connect constituent calls for net neutrality.
It’s worth understanding the strategy here. Congress is supposed to provide oversight for the FCC, so we need to make clear to Congress that it’s their responsibility to stop the FCC from advancing a plan that hurts everyone—from average Internet users to small businesses to gamers to app developers to librarians to human rights activists.
Even worse, it’s clear that telecom giants are hoping that if they can get the rules repealed at the FCC, they can exploit the situation to make sure NO real net neutrality legislation passes in Congress. That’s why it’s so important that we defend the Title II based rules we have now, ones that millions of people fought for in 2015.
We need to make Ajit Pai’s attack on net neutrality Congress’ biggest problem in the weeks before the vote—and reinforce it with an increased flood of phone calls straight from constituents in lawmakers’ own backyards.
Our momentum is growing as the vote approaches: some of the most popular websites in the world are running our action alerts to help connect more net neutrality supporters with decision makers at this crucial moment. And we’re planning more protests online and off as we count down to the final minutes when we can get Congress to move.
Will you chip in to help increase the number of calls we can connect before the FCC vote?
Yes, I’ll chip in.
Donate Now
For the future,
Holmes at FFTF
Footnotes:
[1] Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ember-vote
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"J,
It’s official: top Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has scheduled the vote to overturn net neutrality on December 14.[1] Now is our last chance to stop them from killing the Internet as we know it.
We have just one month left to mobilize the grassroots backlash needed to flip key members of Congress and get them to stop the FCC from moving forward with the vote. This has happened before. It is possible for Congress to stop this rogue FCC from gutting consumer and free speech protections at the behest of big telecom companies.
We’re hearing again and again that the calls. Are. Working. But we need more of them to get to the level of “pandemonium” required to get the necessary members of Congress to step in and stop the FCC.
Our BattleForTheNet.com 1-click call tool is connecting hundreds of thousands of phone calls with senators and representatives. As we approach the vote, we need to drive more calls every day, which means we need to raise more funds to cover the costs of connecting the calls (they add up!).
Yes, I'll chip in to keep the phones in DC ringing and connect constituent calls for net neutrality.
It’s worth understanding the strategy here. Congress is supposed to provide oversight for the FCC, so we need to make clear to Congress that it’s their responsibility to stop the FCC from advancing a plan that hurts everyone—from average Internet users to small businesses to gamers to app developers to librarians to human rights activists.
Even worse, it’s clear that telecom giants are hoping that if they can get the rules repealed at the FCC, they can exploit the situation to make sure NO real net neutrality legislation passes in Congress. That’s why it’s so important that we defend the Title II based rules we have now, ones that millions of people fought for in 2015.
We need to make Ajit Pai’s attack on net neutrality Congress’ biggest problem in the weeks before the vote—and reinforce it with an increased flood of phone calls straight from constituents in lawmakers’ own backyards.
Our momentum is growing as the vote approaches: some of the most popular websites in the world are running our action alerts to help connect more net neutrality supporters with decision makers at this crucial moment. And we’re planning more protests online and off as we count down to the final minutes when we can get Congress to move.
Will you chip in to help increase the number of calls we can connect before the FCC vote?
Yes, I’ll chip in.
Donate Now
For the future,
Holmes at FFTF
Footnotes:
[1] Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... ember-vote
Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age.
Click here to learn more
Donate $3 to keep us going
Click here to receive fewer emails from us"