Defend the freedom of the internet!

[Amagi 1,728]

Internet is changing, and we need your help to stop it!
Big ISPs and FCC are trying to destroy "Net Neutrality", just for MONEY!
 
What is Net Neutrality?

 

Net Neutrality is the Internet’s guiding principle: It preserves our right to communicate freely online.

Net Neutrality means that the cable/telecom companies must provide us with open networks — and should not block or discriminate against any applications or content that ride over those networks. Just as your phone company cannot decide who you could call and what you say on that call, your ISP should not be concerned with what content you view or post online.

Net Neutrality is what enables the Internet to be such a hotbed for innovation. If you bring a new service online, the cable/telecom companies should deliver it just like they’d deliver content from a corporate behemoth like Google or NBC.

Net Neutrality is what gives every startup the same chance to reach customers and users as any existing company. Simply, without Net Neutrality, startups and small business will be subject to discrimination based on a pay-to-play Internet, and the open Internet and the economic growth it has represented will be at risk.

 

Who are we fighting?!

 

On May 15, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission proposed rules that would permit rampant discrimination online, undermining Net Neutrality. The FCC’s proposal would be a huge boon for the cable companies and would undermine the Internet as we know it.

Under the proposed rules, cable giants like AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon would be able to create a two-tiered Internet, with slow lanes (for most of us) and fast lanes (for wealthy corporations that are willing pay fees in exchange for fast service).

Cable companies would have the power to discriminate against online content and applications — they could pick winners and losers, shake sites down for fees, block content for political reasons, and make it easier for Internet users to view cable content. (For instance, Comcast owns NBC, and so has incentives to make it easier to view NBC content than that of other providers.)

 

What are we fighting for?!

 

After public outcry, the FCC left the door open for the only proposal that can preserve Net Neutrality: reclassifying Internet access as a "common carrier" under Title II of the Communications Act.

Anything other than Title II is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate.

The FCC has opened up a comment period for us to weigh in on its proposal, but it ends on Sept. 15. After that, the FCC will deliberate and decide what, if any, new rules to issue — likely before the end of the year.

 

 

Do you want to pay even more just for better streaming and internet?! NO?! Help us stop this!!!

 

Read/Support here at: https://www.battleforthenet.com/

 

Edited September 12, 2014 by Stinger911

[shadewarttt 3,350]

1st world problem. 

[Ilia.ArchangeI 6,785]

It'll affect the rest of us too.

[Eragon 13,876]

Good luck to all who fight. 

[I.WalkAlone 548]

That site might be mining data...

[ArcticCow 454]

1st world problem. 

what do you mean by that

[Meliora 1,652]

The comments above are rather pathetic. I'm not in North America, but I still think what they're proposing is terrible... Net neutrality - it should stay the same for everyone... I see your points about businesses which are just starting up - lower speeds really put people off using the website.

 

Thanks for this - I had heard about it earlier but it wasn't too clear - this has helped a lot.

[DarkOperative 5,580]

:o

[Mr.SV.ENS 738]

This shouldn't happen. We have the right to play any game we want!  :lol:

 

Seriously, they're probably going to block Tanki then, just because it's a Russian game and after all that stuff that happened in Ukraine/Russia the past few weeks/months with MH17.

Edited September 13, 2014 by Mr.SV.ENS

[FaaiqBilal1 795]

1st world problem. 

Not a first world problem, it's a restriction for maximum wealth gain. People in third world countries who are trying to establish themselves on the internet will suffer a lot. People have businesses online, they will lose a lot. 

[I.Prince_of_Albania 278]

Well this world is going to end soon so dont worry about that :mellow:

[Amagi 1,728]

Well this world is going to end soon so dont worry about that :mellow:

I don't know if joking, or plain serious...

[HichigoShiiro 4,378]

I don't know if joking, or plain serious...

He is

WWIII is just around the corner..