The Battle for Net Neutrality Isnt Dead

[rhett o rick]

“4 Signs Net Neutrality Isn't Dead (Despite an FCC Proposal You're Not Going to Like)”

Article in YES! Magazine by James Trimarco posted May 16, 2014

They didn't get the proposal they wanted from the FCC. But proponents of a fair and open Internet made important strikes, and the debate is just getting started.

“FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is still moving ahead with a proposal that puts the entire future of the Internet in danger,” wrote Evan Greer, campaign manager at the group Fight for the Future, in an email to YES.

Why are we not surprised?

The proposal the FCC just approved includes stronger protections than the FCC’s original plan, which would have allowed telecom companies to place their own subsidiaries’ content into the fast lane.
Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler revised the proposal to forbid that practice. Wheeler's revisions did not satisfy net neutrality proponents, but they took place only because of the significant public outcry that greeted the original plan. That suggests that continued activism can produce even greater results.

So Tom Wheeler was forced by activists and a strong public outcry to reduce the power of the telecom companies but he didn’t go far enough. Why cant we have appointees that are looking out for the 99%? (Rhetorical)

Continue writing letters and contacting your representatives.

James Trimarco wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. James is web editor at YES! and you can follow him @JamesTrimarco.
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[L0oniX]

1. Yeah ...we can just mention to Obama what he said on his campaign trail and he will fix this for us.

You know he won't ...because what he said on his campaign trail was just the usual bull shit to get elected.

[rhett o rick]

2. The WH stand on this is that now that Wheeler has been appointed he is "independent" and the only

thing they can do is hope for the best.

[L0oniX]

4. Like he can't immediately pull Wheeler from the position?

So corporations can pay someone to get them to push for favorable legislation but Obama can't push Wheeler to full fill his campaign rhetoric? It's not news that we've been under the bus for a few years now.


Hope and change ...like you've never seen it before.

[pa28]

3. K&R

[mtasselin]

5. Obama

If you haven't figured it out yet President Obama has sold us out again with net neutrality. This is not the first time and it certainly won't be the last, his next sellout is being worked on right now and it is called Trans Pacific Partnership.. Look what Clinton did to us with NAFTA and Glass/Steigal, now look what President Obama has done and will continue to do until his last day in off, I expect this from republicans, but not from Democrats. If America elects Hillary in 2016 it will just be another wall street democrat running the country and every so often they will send us a bone and the American people will say what a great person she is, enough of this shit.

[Jefferson23]

6. Recommend. n/t

[Overseas]

7. K&R. It's comment time now. Will continue to speak up.

[Enthusiast]

8. Kicked and recommended!