#50409

[leomacgivena]

安野さんの奥さんの演説、すごいな。「安野は人は貶めないがシステムの欠陥は見抜く」という内容も安野さんのことを端的に表現しててすごいし、心から言葉を発してるのも素敵。

Xユーザーの成田 修造 / Shuzo Naritaさん

[sk8rcruz]

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[ivygorgon]

Embrace Civic Engagement with Resistbot

📱 Text RESIST to 50409 for FREE!

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Growing up and becoming politically active in today's internet-connected, densely populated United States was initially intimidating. Balancing daily life with political awareness seemed daunting, especially beyond the presidential elections. It often felt like engaging as a citizen was beyond reach, considering the demands of everyday life.

Discovering Resistbot a few years ago was transformative. It provided a streamlined approach to engagement, helping me identify causes that resonated with me and offering a convenient way to contact my representatives. More importantly, it reignited hope for overwhelmed individuals to connect meaningfully with the world around them without feeling engulfed by it.

However, I've noticed that despite its power, Resistbot's impact remains limited due to low engagement. That's why I'm reaching out to you. I urge my family, friends, and even strangers to experience this incredible tool. I hope it inspires you as it did me, prompting action on causes that may seem distant but are worth fighting for. Whether it's using this tool to participate in elections or advocating for important issues, every action matters.

Please take a moment to test this bot. Contact your officials in just two minutes by texting 50409 and initiating Resistbot. Alternatively, you can interact via Apple Messages, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram. Simply respond to the bot's prompts, and within minutes, you'll have reached out to your elected officials. There are various keywords available for contacting officials, voting, and accessing other resources like vaccines.

Let's embrace our role as active citizens and harness the potential of tools like Resistbot to effect positive change. It's your civic responsibility; use it or lose it.

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[apathyislikeawoundedsoul]

Texting 50409 to save the post office is literally so easy, look

Please text and sign.

[sundaessims]

[Belle]: Was that...okay?

[Jonathon]: Yeah! Of course! Uh... *sputters* that was amaz- great I mean.

[Belle]: *grins* Well, I’m glad it was amaz-great. Good to know. 

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[maleahlia]

I wanna talk about net neutrality for a second.

I have no money. Most of the time I can't even afford pay my phone bill at $45 a month. If net neutrality is taken away there's no way in hell I'd be able to afford internet, much less pay extra to use Tumblr and other social media. For me this is mentally devastating. I struggle with severe anxiety and suffer from anerexia nervosa. I use Tumblr to vent and connect with others who have the same struggles as me. Without this source my mental health would seriously be on the decline. I wouldn't be able to let out my feelings and would lose the secure feeling that comes with knowing that you're not alone. I and many others also use this site as a creative outlet to write and express ourselves without fear of being alienated. If I lose this I don't know what I'll do. I live in a homophobic family and I have no one except the people I meet on here to relate to about my sexuality. I know this is something that so many young people struggle with, and for them this site is a safe haven they can't get anywhere else. A less serious but still crucial need for many of us is fandom culture. As horribly messy as some fandoms may get, its still nice to be able to find a group of people who are as in love as you are with a book, movie, musical, or whatever. There's even a place for crazy history stans like me (yes, there is a history "fandom"). This is like a virtual home base for me and I don't know what I'd do without it. Taking away net neutrality would only benefit large companies and completely devastate small businesses. Not only that but it would completely change internet as we know it (and not for the better).

There's only so much to do, but to show your support for net neutrality text

"RESIST" to 50409

Don't let us lose our internet without a fight!

[emmadac]

Internet access = power

They know exactly what they’re doing. We’re scaring them, because you fellow Americans are united and strong together, and because, just like you guys, we, the other people around the world, have access to knowledge, different sources of information, we have the possibility of planning on revolts, we can literally all gather and have an impact, we can change the world. Being united is a strength. And to a terrible president, that shit is scaaaaary. 

Breaking Net Neutrality ? What a good way of dividing people, preventing them from protesting, leading them to go back to TV where information is subjective and easy to manipulate, where there’s no exchange, where they serve you programs, information, even lies, and you just take it as it is. What a good way of widening the gap between rich people and poor people, making the rich richer, more educated, privileged, at the cost of the poorest. 

Not only it will affect people in a terrible way, that’s also an attack in a symbolic way. By breaking the internet they are literally taking away the voice of the people. They are showing us how many fucks they give about human rights. “Equality ? What the fuck is equality ? I don’t know her.” — has been thinking all along the asshole some of you guys still call “president”. But now, they don’t even care anymore about what you guys think. They're not even trying to maintain their shitty hypocrisy anymore. The message is clear.

Please resist. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, if you’re reading this, the removal of Net Neutrality will impact you. And we can do something for that. There are petitions everywhere on the internet, there are numbers to send messages to. We must use the internet to resist, we must show them we’re stronger than their bullshit. Let’s not wait for the internet access to be taken away from us to actually act and be like “oh well I’m gonna send cute cards to everyone through the mail to plan on a protest”.

And what if we fail ? We need to plan ahead. The internet access is taken away from us ? We’ll find other ways to express ourselves, to connect with the world. We’re gonna write our rage on the walls of every street. I’m very good at 140 characters long graffitis. But until now, we can avoid a fucking mess by just doing what we can with what we still have now.

The internet isn’t the property of anyone. 

Please text RESIST to 50409. 

I’m not even an American by the way. I don’t even know how this whole shit will impact France, but even if nothing changes for us —which I doubt —, solidarity is all we have left. Sorry if my English isn’t perfect, I’m just way too angry to spell correctly.

[oxlabyrinthxo]

Net Neutrality

To The Honorable Representative and Senators of the Great State of Indiana,

I am writing to express my objections to Chairman Pai’s attempts to roll back Title II Net Neutrality Rules. A free and open internet is integral to our nation. It has helped small businesses develop, opened up access to information, and leveled the playing field for so many, regardless of their financial circumstances. Rolling back Net Neutrality would change all of this. I object to the rollback, and demand that Chair Pai hold a national hearing to gauge public opinion of this efforts. Additionally, I assert that Chairman Pai’s actions are anti-democratic, and the repeal of Net Neutrality in fact violate my rights as an American as guaranteed by our Constitution, specifically my first amendment right to freedom of speech.

I know some of you are in favor of Chairman Pai’s move to roll back Tittle II and go back to the less “heavy handed ways” of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. However this is not what the people of the United States want, and the FCC was created to ensure that the broadcasting and telecommunications systems work in “the public interest, convenience and necessity.” Repealing Net Neutrality is not in the public interest, but in the interest of the internet service provider (ISP) companies.

In fact before Title II Net Neutrality was put in place there were several instances where ISPs blocked content to their consumers unlawfully. For example: AT&T Censored a live Pearl Jam stream over Eddie Vedder’s criticism of then President - George Bush, Verizon blocked text messages from reproductive rights group NARAL, calling them “controversial”, TELUS, a Canadian Telecom, blocked the website of a union with which it was in a labor dispute with, AT&T limited its use of FaceTime to incentivize the purchased of more expensive data plans, Comcast lied about throttling Netflix speeds, and many more. What concerns me as a voting citizen is that repealing Net Neutrality will lead to more of this unethical throttling of data. Thus denying free and equal access to all information on the internet.

Revoking Title II will also affect my job. I am a Children’s Librarian in a small community and we rely heavily on the internet and so do our patrons. Several people in our community do not have home internet access and use the library for this. “Libraries have a lot to lose if net neutrality goes away,” says Marshall Breeding, founder of Library Technology Guides and editor of ALA TechSource’s Smart Libraries newsletter. “If it becomes a pay-to-play environment, where only if you pay at a premium level do you get the fastest access, then libraries can be disadvantaged, because we’re the ones who are least likely to pay premium fees that would ensure that our traffic is delivered in a good way.” As public institutions, we're being threatened with limited resources and are trying to provide the best possible service we can give the access we currently have. Being slowed down hurts the American public because our institutions will not be able to compete, if you will, and the American public will not have comparable or equal access to the resources that are provided by libraries or other public institutions.

FCC Chairman Pai also use to work for Verizon, an ISP. Can we be sure this move of his is in the best interest of the people and not big business? Dismantling something as important to the American people like Net Neutrality should be made in the interest of the people it will affect the most. I urge you to help keep Title II intact in the interest of the people who voted you into office with the hope that you would make a difference. I know companies like Comcast, AT&T have “promised” to not do the things Net Neutrality protects the consumer from. But if that is the case, then why are they so desperate to repeal it? Without Net Neutrality ISPs can charge you extra to reach certain websites, slow down streaming services like Netflix or Hulu that compete with their streaming services, block some websites altogether, making this the end of a free and open internet. Mega Corporations should never get to censor what we do online. They could even blacklist websites to competing startups, or small businesses, thus destroying competition and innovation.

Media is more than just our window of the world. It’s how we talk to each other, how we engage with our society and our government. Without a media environment that serves the public’s need to be informed, connected and involved, our democracy and our society will suffer. Is it in the public’s interest to have an internet where ISPs can decide which websites load fastest?

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Amanda Farnsworth