by BATTLEFORTHENET.COM | February 8, 2015

On Feb 26 the FCC will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their Cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. There isn’t much time to stop them, contact them now.

Last year, more than 40,000 websites participated in the Internet Slowdown to demand real net neutrality. It worked! But monopolistic Cable companies are pouring millions into a last ditch effort to derail the FCC’s historic vote. Help us flood Washington, DC with calls and emails to show lawmakers that the whole Internet is watching, and we’re literally counting down the seconds until we get real net neutrality.

Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they’re attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans to charge websites arbitrary fees and slow (to a crawl) any sites that won’t pay up. If they win, the Internet will never be the same.

Here’s how to join.

Internet users: Spread the word.

Telling everyone about the vote is a key part of winning real net neutrality. We need your help to do just that. If you use twitter, click “Join with Twitter” below, and you can sign up to tweet once a day from now until the vote, or just once right before the vote. It’s your choice. If you don’t have twitter, then sign up with your email and we’ll send you a list of different ways you can help.

You’re our only hope.

This is the time to go big, visible, and strong – that’s the only way we can actually win this fight. We all need to get as many people in our respective audiences motivated to do something. We can make this epic, but only if you help. We need companies to be frontrunners, leaders, and heroes on this, that’s the key ingredient to raising the bar and making sure everyone goes big.

We realize it’s a big ask, but this is the kind of bad internet legislation that comes along (or gets this close to passing) once a decade or so. If it passes we’ll be kicking ourselves for decades—every time a favorite site gets relegated to the slow lane, and every time we have to rework or abandon a project because of the uncertain costs paid prioritization creates. Doing the most we can right now seems like the only rational step.

Let us know if you’re interested in principle, and if there’s something you need from us to join: evan@fightforthefuture.org

Sources:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/countdown/

https://www.battleforthenet.com/?inf_contact_key=7ea384cd18321f3faedbe26400e3cffcfc3375954ae3b1ff1431139f66263e04