Fight for net neutrality

We won the first battle so now the FCC is coming back with another scheme to protect the ISPs, not us. Which tells you where they get their bread buttered. See the below from freepress and consider the petition. My personal petition response was: "I don't get how you will not do the right and simple thing and declare ISPs as common carriers. And it's the simplest solution. Yet you continue to try to swing these deals that benefit the ISPs as the expense of everyone else. We see right through your smokescreen. How about representing the people, which is your job, right?"

From freepress:

Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality. Halloween came early to the FCC: Last night, word leaked1 that Chairman Tom Wheeler's building a new Frankenstein proposal that's not Net Neutrality (NOT Neutrality?). Here's the good news: According to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, the truly awful proposal the FCC released in May is dead. Here's the bad news: Now the agency is considering a convoluted plan with too many of the huge problems we've been protesting against all year. Just how bad is it? This new proposal: • Would allow broadband providers to cut specialized deals with companies to reach Internet users. • Still gives us slow lanes and gives users no real protection against discrimination from Internet service providers. • Rests on shaky legal arguments that won’t stand up in court. This isn't what millions of us have been fighting for. And dressing up fake Net Neutrality in a new costume won't work. Tell Chairman Wheeler: Don't Turn the Internet into a Nightmare. We've seen this horror movie before: Too-clever lawyers try to avoid tough political choices with legal theories that wilt under scrutiny. The FCC tried this approach in 2005 and again in 2010 — and they lost in court both times. This new scheme won’t work any better. According to the story, this new proposal would “separate broadband into two distinct services: a retail one, in which consumers would pay broadband providers for Internet access; and a back-end one, in which broadband providers serve as the conduit for websites to distribute content." That would divide the Internet in unprecedented ways — at best protecting only the companies that send information but not Internet users like you and me. We all know the truth: There is only one Internet. And there's only one way that's sure to protect it: reclassifying broadband under Title II of the Communications Act. Tell the FCC: We Need Real Net Neutrality. These new rules are being written at FCC headquarters right now — we need to move fast before the agency signs off on another ill-fated plan that Wheeler tries to pass off as a compromise. We've already moved the FCC away from the worst plan, and this is our best chance to make real Net Neutrality the only option. Thanks for all that you do— Craig, Candace, Mary Alice and the rest of us at Free Press P.S. Please help fund the fight for real Net Neutrality with a donation of $10 (or more!) today. Generous donors will match your contribution dollar for dollar. Thank you! P.P.S. Want to take things a step further? Sign up to join a protest outside the White House next week. 1. "FCC 'Net Neutrality' Plan Calls for More Power over Broadband," Wall Street Journal, Oct. 30, 2014: http://act.freepress.net/go/16203?t=8&akid=4994.10149146.G0PGnB

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