On 5/17/14, Becky Bond, CREDO Action <act@credoaction.com> wrote:
>
President Obama: Don't kill the Internet.
>
> The
petition reads:
>
"President Obama: Tom Wheeler, the FCC Chair you appointed, has
proposed
> rules that
would kill the free and open Internet. Don’t sit on the
> sidelines
and allow this to happen. You have promised to support Net
> Neutrality,
now it’s time for you to keep your word."
>
>
Automatically add your name:
>
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>
> Dear
robert,
>
>
[2]President Obama:
> Don't
>
kill the Internet
> -- Click
>
here to take Action
>
> On
Thursday, President Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
> proposed
adopting rules that will kill the Internet as we know it. On a
> 3-2 vote,
Democrats on the FCC voted to advance a proposal to end Net
> Neutrality.
>
> Thanks to
intense grassroots pressure, the FCC also suggested that the
> public
should be asked to weigh in on an alternative that CREDO and
> Internet
users have been advocating for -- to overturn Bush-era
>
deregulation and reclassify the Internet as a public utility.
>
> The fate of
the Internet at stake. We need President Obama to step
> in and
> take action
now to save equality on the Internet.
>
> [3]Tell
President Obama: Don't kill the Internet. Click here to
>
automatically sign the petition.
>
> Here's
what's happening: The president's newly appointed FCC Chair Tom
> Wheeler has
put the FCC on course to allow Internet service providers
> (ISPs) to divide
the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy
> corporations and
> slow lanes
for the rest of us. If successful, this would amount to
> nothing
> less than
the corporate takeover of the Internet and the death of Net
> Neutrality.
>
> But because
of a massive public backlash against the proposed rules,
> Chairman
Wheeler was forced to keep the door open to the change we
> really
> need --
undoing Bush-era deregulation and reclassifying the
> Internet as a
> public
utility, which is the only way to establish Net Neutrality
> regulations
with teeth.
>
> As a
candidate, President Obama promised to be a strong defender of Net
> Neutrality.
With President Obama's FCC Chair leading the charge to kill
> the
Internet, the president has a responsibility not to sit on the
> sidelines
and watch it happen.
>
> [4]Tell
President Obama: Don't kill the Internet. Click here to
>
automatically sign the petition.
>
> In response
to this vote, the White House issued a weak statement
> distancing
the president from the FCC’s decision-making and stating
> that: “[The
White House] will be watching closely as the process moves
> forward in
hopes that the final rule stays true to the spirit of net
>
neutrality.”
>
> Sitting
back and hoping everything turns out is not nearly good enough.
> This is
President Obama’s chairman and his FCC. When he campaigned for
> the
presidency he promised to protect a free and open Internet. And that
> promise is
now being undermined by an FCC Chair he appointed -- someone
> who now
seems more interested in doing the bidding of a few large
>
corporations than working in the public interest.
>
> It's time
for the president to come off the sidelines and stand up for
> Internet
users.
>
> [5]Tell
President Obama: Don't kill the Internet. Click here to
>
automatically sign the petition.
>
> Net
Neutrality is a principle that says that Internet users, not ISPs,
> should be
in control. It ensures that Internet service providers can't
> speed up,
slow down, or block web content based on its source,
> ownership,
> or
destination.
>
> Net
Neutrality is important because the Internet is an essential service
> Americans
rely on to conduct our most basic daily affairs, from applying
> for a job
to finding a home, to running a small business. And our
> right to
> communicate
freely and be heard lies at the heart of our ability to
> participate
equally in our democracy.
>
> A string of
federal court cases has made it abundantly clear that
> the FCC
> has the
power to enforce strong Net Neutrality rules, but only if
> the FCC
> goes
through the process of undoing a terrible Bush-era decision to
> deregulate broadband
instead of treating it like the vital public
> utility
> it has
become.
>
>
Re-regulating (in FCC jargon, “reclassifying”) broadband is the change
> we really
need and is the only way to establish Net Neutrality
> regulations
> with teeth.
But rather than take that clear (and clearly legal) path of
>
re-regulating broadband as a public utility, the FCC is proposing sham
> rules
championed by FCC Chair Wheeler that will allow Internet service
> providers
(ISPs) to divide the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy
>
corporations and slow lanes for the rest of us. This would amount to
> nothing
less than the corporate takeover of the Internet and the
> death of
> Net
Neutrality.
>
> President
Obama can't be a strong defender of Net Neutrality, as he
> pledged to
be, if he continues to sit on the sidelines. With this
>
anti-Internet proposal moving through the approval process at the FCC --
> and the
door open to the alternative path of reclassifying the
> Internet as
> a public
utility -- the time is now for the president to weigh in.
>
> If he does
get involved, he can stop the FCC's tremendously
> dangerous and
> misguided
plan. In short, a decision to sit out this fight is a decision
> to kill the Internet.
>
> [6]Tell
President Obama: Don't kill the Internet. Click here to
>
automatically sign the petition.
>
> It's
obvious that the FCC is responding to the political influence
> wielded
> by the
giant telecom companies who hate Net Neutrality and have a
> tremendous
financial incentive to kill it.
>
> President
Obama's strong support for Net Neutrality would be an
> incredibly
> effective
counterweight to the small army of Big Telecom lobbyists
> swarming
the FCC and Congress. Internet users need the president to make
> his
position clear.
>
> A strong
stand by our president, along with the active participation of
> the massive
amounts of Americans who care about this issue and don’t
> want to see
the corporate takeover of the Internet is what is need
> to save
> the
Internet as we know it.
>
> Tell
President Obama: Don’t kill the Internet. Click the link below to
>
automatically sign the petition:
>
>
>
> Becky Bond,
Political Director
> [8]CREDO
Action from Working Assets
>
>
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>
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