"The FCC wants to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies
control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, they’ll
allow widespread throttling, blocking, censorship, and extra fees.
On July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them."
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This is important stuff.
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Battle For the Net: Mass Day of Action Aims to Stop Trump's FCC from Destroying Free & Open Internet
(DemocracyNow.org)
"MICHAEL COPPS: Well, first of all, the network is so vital to economic opportunity and innovation, and especially to democracy. I think Evan said it well. This is a tool of unparalleled power that can help us to build democracy. When you look at what has happened to mainstream media—radio, television and cable—how it has been corporatized and commercialized and consolidated, how much journalism we have lost, you really get down to the essential question: Is media providing the news and information that citizens need in order to make intelligent decisions for the future? There’s a lot of evidence that that’s really not happening right now.
Net neutrality, however, is a free speech issue. And at its center is the ability of Americans to go where they want on the internet, to access the content that they want and to be treated like everybody else is treated, so you don’t have Comcast and AT&T and Verizon acting as gatekeepers and having the power to slow down sites that they don’t like or to block or to throttle, or to give fast lanes to a few while the rest of us struggle along on slow lanes. To be a fully participating citizen in 21st century America, you have to have access to high-speed, affordable broadband. And that’s what’s at issue now."
(Youtube video)
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