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SIGN THE PETITION TO ABC AND DISNEY ON THIS PAGE: Put Jimmy Kimmel back on the air now. Don't be Trump's accomplice in attacking the First A
Jimmy Kimmel isn’t exactly “far left” but even as a “standard liberal” he is being fired for he speech.
He didn’t even say anything derogatory about Charlie Kirk. What he said was that the shooter was most likely more “right wing” than “left wing” and that Trump was wrongly politicizing the shooting.
We can still win back net neutrality after the repeal goes into effect, and here’s how (IMPORTANT)
On June 11th, the net neutrality repeal that the FCC voted on in December will be going into effect. I know that sounds scary, and I bet a lot of you think we’re doomed, but don’t give up hope! Yes, there is a CRA to protect net neutrality that might be passed, but if it doesn’t there are other things we can do. Here’s how we can keep fighting for our free and open internet:
* Get a VPN. These bad boys will make it so that your identity is protected online, you are protected from hackers, and you will still be able to access any website, even the ones ISPS will try to block and throttle!
* Switch to local broadband if you can! The big mean corporations that want net neutrality dead want your cash, they’re greedy as heck. Don’t give them the money! If enough people switch to local broadband and they start to lose business big time, they’ll know how much they screwed themselves over and may feel like bringing nn back would be the way to save their company and gain their reputation back (but we all know that some injuries stay forever. Karma yo.) Not only that but you’d be supporting local businesses and that’s a dope thing to do!!
* Join a protest, but do it PEACEFULLY. I CAN’T STRESS HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO NOT BE VIOLENT. Violence only leads to a worse conflict, people will think we’re a bunch of sjw weirdos and that will be used against us (also violence is just bad as a whole.)
* Go to libraries!!! They’re a good source of information for when you need it!!!
* Save as many things to your computer/phone/etc as you can before June 11th!!! If there’s any information/resources/etc from a site you want/need that you get the feeling might be blocked out/throttled, save it!!! Copy text into notepad or something!! Save images into your photo gallery!!! At least you’ll have it!!
* Keep checking in on what your states are doing!! I believe around 22 different states are trying to create their own laws protecting nn, (and even attempting to sue the FCC I’ve heard?? Someone pls correct me if I’m wrong on that.) And be sure to support those state protections!!
* VOTE FOR PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT NN IN THE MIDTERMS IF YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE!!
* Do NOT stop fighting, they want us to give up, don’t let them have that victory.
* Have hope, be optimistic, but actually partake in the fight, don’t just sit on your butt!! And keep calm yet vigilant.
If anyone knows anything else we can do to help bring back nn, please add onto this!! We can still win in the end!! Even if we are without nn for a while.
How to speak like a FCCing politician: Use their language, and they'll listen
EDIT: Carr worked under Pai at Verison, and published this article. It's likely he won't change his mind. www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/no-the-fcc-is-not-killing-the-internet/2017/11/30/9205ac88-d457-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html
FOCUS ON MIKE O'RILLEY!
I’ve already commented on one post, but I can’t with a clean conscience sit by without making my own.
I see so many posts about Net Neutrality, and while I think it’s tremendous how many of you are emailing the FCC, some of those emails aren’t going to change minds.
Some of you are emailing the chairman himself. Ajit Pai was a former Verison employee. It doesn’t matter how many emails you send to him. You could literally tell him that you depend on the Internet’s resources to live, and he would not bat an eye.
Many of you are putting in your emails that hospitals and schools will see troubles. I appreciate the effort, but when these men are the very same men who have already taken SO MUCH from hospitals and schools, will they?
What you NEED to do, is speak their language. That language is dollar signs. Make your voice sound like MONEY THEY WILL BE LOSING.
We live in a nation where restaurants are failing because no one can afford a $20 meal anymore. What makes the FCC think we can afford more than $60 Internet? E-commerce is essential to the US economy. If users are forced to go through paywall after paywall, they will STOP purchasing anything off the Internet. The nosedive in stocks will be the likes of nothing you’ve ever seen.
Without the freedom to choose which websites we visit, the internet, for many of you on Tumblr like me, will become virtually meaningless. Make THAT the message you spread to these two “Yes votes.” Tell them that if the Internet becomes just like cable TV, which none of us are able to afford, they will LOSE the few dollars we have.
They’ll be interested in hearing that.
These are the emails of the two FCC members voting “yes” on the repeal of NN. If anyone’s mind is going to be changed. It has to be one of these guys. And it has to be before December 14th.
Mike.O'[email protected]
If we speak their language, there may still be hope. Good luck, everyone.
Net Neutrality is a hot topic because losing it would mean the internet would stop being the amazing place it is. Net Neutrality is the stance that internet providers should have to provide access to everything on the internet at the same speed. This idea is predicated on the idea that the internet should be open and available to everyone; however, there is a debate that exists and it is all about whether or not Net Neutrality is a good thing.
Consumers who think that Net Neutrality is good believe that, without it, the internet will cease to be a fair place to play. Many of them want it to be classified as a title 2 because that puts it in the same utility bracket as water and electricity. This bracket would help keep Net Neutrality alive because it outlaws providers from dictating how we use the service.
An example is electricity. When you purchase electricity you buy the amount you use. You do not have to pay extra to have a second refrigerator (which uses a lot of electricity). Net Neutrality stops service providers from charging consumers extra money to get fast access to websites like Netflix (which uses a lot of bandwidth).
Consumers who are against net neutrality believe that it hinders competition and hurts small creators. There is also a fight against regulations. Opposition to net neutrality is slightly confusing to me because they believe that by outlawing so called “fast lanes” ISP’s and consumers will suffer. They believe that being able to pay to access the sites they want will make the internet better for them and will allow ISP’s to be more financially successful. They also think that the government regulating the internet to title 2 is an over-regulation that will diminish competition on the internet.
This diminished competition would decrease the investment companies put into upgrading and expanding; this will slow down speeds. By having large companies pay for the bandwidth needed to sustain their programs, the cost burden is taken off of the consumer, who will only have to pay for what they are using.
ISP’s do not want Net Neutrality because without it they can get paid twice for their service. They make consumers pay for access to sites like Facebook, Netflix and Hulu and they make sites pay for access to their consumers. They can charge large fee’s to access websites that they deem as competition and they can throttle speeds of companies like Netflix and Hulu if they do not pay for “fast lanes.” Top ISP’s like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T have already established that they will make sites unusable if the sites do not pay their fees.
As for government. . . Honestly, they seem to fight for whomever is giving them money. Companies who support net neutrality have lobbyists that pay for Net Neutrality to be protected and ISP’s have lobbyist’s that pay for it to be taken away.
Personally, I think the internet should be classified as a Title 2 utility because everything the opposition says makes little sense and does not seem to be based in facts. The system works the way it is right now. The internet is a level playing field where anyone can start creating and become successful and to me that is wonderful and should not change. I truly think that if ISPs have the ability to charge for access to consumers, independent creators will no longer be able to thrive and much of the diversity on the internet will be extinguished.
How to call your representatives about Net Neutrality! Go to 5calls.org, and put in your address. Next, scroll to “View All Active Issues,” then scroll to ‘Digital Rights,’ select the issue and call your representatives listed below, with a script provided to read from your screen. There’s also an APP!
Hey guys, if you have the time and energy: Please write a real letter to the FCC. As in not an email. Politicians are flooded with emails and stuff. If you can get them something tangible, then yeah, it’ll still probably go through assistants and stuff, but letters are harder to ignore. Especially if a shit ton of people write letters. Floods of letters is a little more intense than floods of comments/emails because they need to find a place to put all the fucking letters instead of just seeing digital numbers go up.
Use email templates, message templates, etc, but getting a hard copy of something to them is going to take it up a notch.
Obviously not everyone can write letters for multiple reasons, but if you can then please do. You can type them up, keep them less than a page, google docs has some good templates. I’ve written one already and am planning on sending more.
Federal Communications Commission 445 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20554
