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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNet Neutrality: today is A Day of ACTION!
Internet giants launch 'day of action' on net neutrality
By STEVEN OVERLY 07/11/2017 05:58 PM EDT Updated 07/11/2017 06:23 PM EDT
The biggest U.S. internet companies aim to marshal their millions of users Wednesday in the fight to preserve net-neutrality rules a summon-the-masses strategy that successfully killed Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation five years ago but which may carry less power in today's GOP-dominated Washington.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Snapchat, along with an array of other websites and apps taking part in the day of action, believe a firehose of internet users can convince President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission to abandon its plan to gut the rules. The tactic mirrors the web "blackout" deployed in early 2012 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, which lawmakers dropped after receiving a flood of phone calls and emails.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/internet-action-net-neutrality-240424
By STEVEN OVERLY 07/11/2017 05:58 PM EDT Updated 07/11/2017 06:23 PM EDT
The biggest U.S. internet companies aim to marshal their millions of users Wednesday in the fight to preserve net-neutrality rules a summon-the-masses strategy that successfully killed Hollywood-backed anti-piracy legislation five years ago but which may carry less power in today's GOP-dominated Washington.
Google, Facebook, Amazon and Snapchat, along with an array of other websites and apps taking part in the day of action, believe a firehose of internet users can convince President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission to abandon its plan to gut the rules. The tactic mirrors the web "blackout" deployed in early 2012 to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act, which lawmakers dropped after receiving a flood of phone calls and emails.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/11/internet-action-net-neutrality-240424
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Net Neutrality: today is A Day of ACTION! (Original Post)
ghostsinthemachine
Jul 2017
OP
I will do my part, but what I am pretty sure of is his FCC appointments and he
Eliot Rosewater
Jul 2017
#2
I wonder if that "action" includes reading the 400 page FCC ruling on the issue...
PoliticAverse
Jul 2017
#3
Orrex
(63,086 posts)1. I'm sure that $enator Toomey will consider the issue very carefully
Until his check from Comcast clears.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)2. I will do my part, but what I am pretty sure of is his FCC appointments and he
personally would not care if a poll showed 98% of Americans favor Net Neutrality, they would do away with it no matter what we want.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. I wonder if that "action" includes reading the 400 page FCC ruling on the issue...
snot
(10,481 posts)4. Just posted a link to where you can see where your reps stand:
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)5. Thanks