When you go online you expect to be connected to whatever website you want. You expect that your cable or phone company isn’t messing with the data and is connecting you to all websites, applications and content you choose. You expect to be in control of your internet experience. When you use the internet you expect Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality is the basic principle that prohibits internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from speeding up, slowing down or blocking any content, applications or websites you want to use. In 2015, millions of activists pressured the Federal Communications Commission to adopt historic Net Neutrality rules that keep the internet free and open — allowing you to share and access information of your choosing without interference. But right now this win is in jeopardy: Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, wants to destroy Net Neutrality. In May, the FCC voted to let Pai’s internet-killing plan move forward. The FCC will vote on Pai’s proposal on Dec. 14. Join the millions who have already spoken out against it. Net Neutrality is the internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online. Net Neutrality means an internet that enables and protects free speech. It means that ISPs should provide us with open networks — and shouldn’t block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company shouldn’t decide who you call and what you say on that call, your ISP shouldn’t interfere with the content you view or post online. Without Net Neutrality, cable and phone companies could carve the internet into fast and slow lanes. An ISP could slow down its competitors’ content or block political opinions it disagreed with. ISPs could charge extra fees to the few content companies that could afford to pay for preferential treatment — relegating everyone else to a slower tier of service. This would destroy the open internet. What would happen if we lost Net Neutrality? The internet without Net Neutrality isn’t really the internet. Unlike the open internet that has paved the way for so much innovation and given a platform to people who have historically been shut out, it would become a closed-down network where cable and phone companies call the shots and decide which websites, content or applications succeed. This would have an enormous impact. Companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to decide who is heard and who isn’t. They’d be able to block websites or content they don’t like or applications that compete with their own offerings. The consequences would be particularly devastating for marginalized communities media outlets have misrepresented or failed to serve. People of color, the LGBTQ community, indigenous peoples and religious minorities in the United States rely on the open internet to organize, access economic and educational opportunities, and fight back against systemic discrimination. Without Net Neutrality, how would activists be able to fight oppression? What would happen to social movements? How would the next disruptive technology, business or company emerge if internet service providers only let incumbents succeed? Enjoy your internet freedom while you still can, America. -www.savetheinternet.com
Oh, shut up. Net neutrality is bad. The internet is about to get better. Go back to to Socialjusticeville.
Reddit would fix net neutrality. People would DDoS the providers or something and remove the taps from the wires
I really Net Neutrality stays. Most places in America, especially where I live, we've only have a few internet providers to pick from. Pai's proposal says the companies "have" to be transparent to its customers, when they'll probably just put it in a fine print. I don't really see any benefits to his proposal.
You can also go to battleforthenet.com Every person counts. I can’t stress the importance of net neutrality enough.
Were sorry, you used an insult and where removed from the "positive users" plan of your service contract, all content from positive users plan holders will be restricted from your view, and you have lost privleges to your fast lane access. If you would like to regaib access to the positive users plan, please submit a $10 fee as a show of commiting to an attidude change.
This probably will have an impact on pimd. Unless they work with every single phone company and start paying for their app to be used, to each and every major cellphone empire, the game will shut down.
This is so insane tbh. People who work online are about to take a massive hit in revenue and income. It’s just not being talked enough. Our bills are gonna soar
Is there something wrong with you or is there something wrong with you?! How on earth is net neutrality a bad thing? Just go do your own pointless small things instead of trying to stir things you ignorant selfish lil bish.
What was wrong with the internet before 2015? Were y'all to young to use the internet way back then or something?