If Net Neutrality dies imagine what life would be like, we escape real life to be online, to chat with friends, to play games, to watch Youtube, movies, tv shows, we spend hours on Tumblr, facebook, Instagram, we read fanfics, look up things for homework, work, see how to do something, watch tutorials, watch porn, drool over your fandom, look for references to draw something you don’t know how to draw.
And one day it’s taken away and you have to pay for it every month just to use that site. Imagine how that would feel, if your a student, an art student, music student, engineer student, tech student. And you need to look something up for class but your too broke to pay for the web site because all your money went to getting your college text books, or food.
Or even if your not a student, and your living from pay check to pay check, and you have to figure out what sites you can afford that month, maybe you watch everything online, and you miss out what was going on with your favorite show and when your finally able save up enough money to catch up, you find that the show is canceled because the views went down.
Everyone escapes online because they have friends they met on Tumblr, Instagram, LGBTQ+ online communities, AO3, or even message boards. And with that gone, we lose our connections to our friends, loved ones, and even long distance relationships we have made over the years.
Please don’t let Net Neutrality die. It’s up to all of us to save it!
Call, email, write a letter, we need Net Neutrality!
The 2 no votes:
Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov
Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov
The 2 yes votes:
Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov
Mike.O’Rielly@fcc.gov
The Chairman:
Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov
You can also text “RESIST” to 50409, which is a bot that will help you fax a letter to your senators.
I would normally post this kind of thing on my other blog, but this is important and people need to see it.
Net neutrality must be saved. I’ve seen a thousand reasons why, but not this one.
My cousin was diagnosed with a type of terminal cancer at age 4. He was given about 2 years to live. However there was a treatment that could give him more than double that time. We live in the UK but the treatment was not on the NHS so we had to raise money. That is no way to we could have gotten enough money to pay for the treatment without GoFundMe , face book and Twitter to spread the news and manage donations.
America hasn’t got free healthcare so I can only imagine how many more of these stories there must be and just think about how many people could die. And how many people will have to deal with the loss of a loved one, on top of all the other problems net neutrality has to offer.
Incase you were wondering, he didn’t make it to his 6th birthday.
i beg please that u all google what net neutrality actually is because it is so so clear by every post that i see that almost no one actually knows what it’ll mean
in jist, YOU will NOT be paying more to use certain websites
The websites themselves will be. companies (websites, streaming services, etc) that have ties or affiliations with certain ISPs will be getting faster connection than those that don’t, unless they pay a price. This is called throttling.
This will very largely affect online content creators. It will be harder for their content to be accessed, and if they run their own site or if a creator is trying to start a new buissness/app/streaming service/social media platform, it will almost definitly mot be supported by an ISP and will thus be slowed down, charged extra, or blocked (again, throttling).
please please look into it so u know what ur fighting against
They don’t care about the public’s opinion anymore??? Are you shitting me??? Isn’t America supposed to be a democracy where the people have a say in the future of this country?? They say they won’t listen to opinions anymore.
GUYS PUMP OUT COLD HARD FACTS. I’LL BE WRITING AN EMAIL TO THE HEAD SCUMBAG HIMSELF WITH SOME COLD HARD FACTS. I SUGGEST YOU GUYS DO THE SAME!!!
ps: i know I’m being obnoxious with all the unnecessary punctuation and all caps but i need to get the message across.
I didn’t think I’d have to make a post about this, but at this point its beyond urgent that I at least say something. It is December. We have exactly 14 days left to fight off the FCC from taking away our internet. Time is going to fly by, please do not take a back seat thinking “oh, of course everyone’s gonna chime in, its not like I have to do anything” no. Do something! Speak up! Spread the news to everyone around you. Take action. Do not go silent
The internet was made for us. It wasn’t made for greedy assholes who just want more money. In these days, knowledge and entertainment are at the tips of our fingers. We have these miniature computers that has access to another world. A world people can be educated. A world that people can have fun. A world people can start their career or small business. A world where kids who are lonely can make friends. If we lose, this is all going to be taken away from us. Those phones? Well, now you no longer have the ability to message a friend that is miles away from you or check on your email for important business, well unless you pay extra money. I don’t think anyone wants to pay money just to check their email or send a friend a message
And speaking of friends. I know I have friends who go on the internet looking for friendship because they can’t find it in real life. In some cases, I’m the only person they got. I cannot imagine what would happen to some of them if we could no longer talk. That’s terrifying. I’m absolutely scared on what will happen if contact was lost. I might not just lose them from lack of internet, but I might lose them permanently. I really don’t want to think about that, but it could very well be the case if we lose Net Neutrality. And I know there are many other people out there that could have the same reaction
I, myself, would not take this loss very well either. I have very little friends in real life and they’re all often busy with their work. Most of my close friends are internet friends. I don’t know how I’d handle the loss of them. Some of the them are the only things holding me together now. And its not just that, but loads of my entertainment comes from the internet! For all my life I wanted to so badly watch many cartoons (and some anime) and I’ve finally gotten the chance to! I’ve never felt so passionate about anything until now and if we lose, all of that would be taken away from me. I’d be crushed. I’ve already been panicking over this, if its all gone, I have no idea what I would do
And think about yourselves to. How would this affect you personally? I can imagine everyone, or anyone really, reading this would take a big personal loss to this. No one but those greedy assholes will be taking this lightly. If you are not willing to fight for anyone else, fight for yourself. The internet has provided something that nothing else could. We cannot afford to lose our freedom
I am not good with providing with the links and info to take the needed actions to fight against this cause, but I can recommend you guys to other posts that do: (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) Those are all posts I highly urge you guys to read and reblog. I’ll try to add more whenever I find other good posts with contact info. But please, do not sit idle, do something!! This isn’t like the last time we fought bullshit like this off, they’re very willing to ignore our pleas. We must fight back even harder!
If you haven’t heard already, the fcc has admitted to not caring about the 22 million emails they’ve received unless they were in ‘legal terms’ meaning unless you talked like a lawyer who specializes in this specific category, they ignored your email. It doesn’t look like they plan on changing their mind, no matter what we do.
As hopeless as that sounds, we might still have a way to fight back. I’ve heard a few states are trying to make Internet access a state provided utility like electricity and water. If that happens, companies like Verizon would take massive blows. Spread the word, if we can convince our local governments to make internet a state provided utility, it would help not only to sway the votes, but help preserve the Internet in general.
I’m posting this on multiple fandoms because the net neutrality tag gets censored. Remember, without net neutrality your fandom will be completely destroyed.
🔥 With your help, we passed Title II net neutrality protections. Now we need to defend it.🔥
On December 14 the FCC will vote on Commissioner Pai’s plan to repeal Title II rules. This week he tried to justify that decision with a “myth busting” explainer where he makes a lot of sweeping claims he doesn’t think you’ll fact check.
So let’s go through his big points:
❌ Mr. Pai claims ISPs won’t block access or throttle content
These are the real facts. Before Title II, the internet was so “free and open” that…
AT&T blocked Skype from iPhones (Fortune) and, later, wanted FaceTime users to pay for a more expensive plan (Freepress).
MetroPCS blocked all streaming video except YouTube (Wired).
In today’s media market where the same huge companies make and deliver content, Commissioner Pai wants us to trust that corporations won’t use their dominance to bury competitive content or services.
❌ Mr. Pai claims Title II keeps ISPs from building new networks
Here’s another claim Commissioner Pai doesn’t want you to fact check, but:
AT&T’s own CEO told investors that the company would deploy more fiber optic networks in 2016 than 2015 when the FCC passed Title II protections (Investor call transcript).
Charter’s CEO said “Title II, it didn’t really hurt us; it hasn’t hurt us” (Ars Technica).
And Comcast actually increased investment in their network by 10% in Q1 of this year (Ars).
❌ Mr. Pai claims repealing Title II won’t hurt competition
As we mentioned above, ISPs tried to interfere with the services their customers could access and courts had to step in to stop them.
The FCC tried to craft net neutrality rules in 2010 called the Open Internet Order but the ISPs sued and won. The courts told the FCC that the only way to guarantee a free and open internet was using their Title II authority. Without those protections, any of these things would be legal:
Your ISP launches a streaming video service and starts throttling other streaming services until they’re unusable.
Your phone company cuts a deal with a popular music streaming service so it doesn’t count towards your data cap but lowers your overall data limit. If a better service comes along (or your favorite artist releases new tracks somewhere else) you can’t use it without incurring huge data fees.
A billionaire buys your ISP and blocks access to news sites that challenge their ideology.
Repealing Title II would be like letting a car company own the roads and banning a competitor from the highways.
❌ Mr. Pai claims there won’t be fast lanes and slow lanes
Let’s break this down: We won’t have fast lanes and slow lanes, we’ll have “priority access” and…non-priority access? Well gosh.
🚨 Please help us protect Title II one more time! 🚨
This week we co-signed a letter with more than 300 other companies—businesses Mr. Pai gleefully ignores—urging the FCC to retain the Title II internet protections. Now we need you.
Go to 👉 Battle For The Net 👈 to start a call with your representatives in Congress. Tell them to publicly support Title II protections.
The FCC votes on December 14.
We’re only powerful when we work together.
Oh, also: that post about automatically unfollowing the #net neutrality tag—it’s not true. It’s really not. That’s not who we are. Whatever happened, we haven’t been able to reproduce it. We tried. A lot.
But if it were true—which it’s not, we feel compelled to say again—THAT’S EXACTLY WHY YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES and demand a free, open, and neutral internet.
The FCC decided to go ahead with the vote to remove the Net Neutrality rules that the Obama administration set up.
As you can see, this is what the major ISPs wants to do if they have their way. This can do a few things:
Stiff new innovations, making it harder for smaller companies to compete.
Silence independent voices.
Potentially putting up a “walled garden” on a wide scale.
Make distribution of information harder for low-income people.
Imagine this website, if you will, only working on Verizon networks while AT&T customers are charged a little extra, or have slower access to the same information.
Remember, your ISP owns content providers and may give top-shelf, VIP treatment to their own things while stiffing everyone else. We need to address this.
Now, some of you may recall earlier this year that John Oliver and a lot of other people, companies (and yours truly) did a rallying cry to tell the FCC to back off the Net Neutrality rules, which resulted in millions of comments on their proposal.
However, there’s been a few problems… in short, it seems that the FCC chose to not listen due to “inconsistancies”.
Sidenote: Tumblr isn’t the best place to talk “long-form” so if you’re interested in looking at these notes, here are some places to go to.
https://medium.com/@AGSchneiderman/an-open-letter-to-the-fcc-b867a763850a – “ Specifically, for six months my office has been investigating who perpetrated a massive scheme to corrupt the FCC’s notice and comment process through the misuse of enormous numbers of real New Yorkers’ and other Americans’ identities. Such conduct likely violates state law — yet the FCC has refused multiple requests for crucial evidence in its sole possession that is vital to permit that law enforcement investigation to proceed.”
4) Write a letter to your representative. Not an email, an actual, snail mail letter.
Let’s all band together and do something about this. Our future of sharing information, building innovation, nurturing voices and creativity depends on your actions now!
I know it may sound hopeless. Look at when they announced this (you probably didn’t know they announced this on Monday when you’re busy getting ready to for the holiday!). But if we say it with one voice to BACK OFF THE NET, we maybe able to make a difference.
Hi.
I’m the Original Poster and I did my best to keep this brief with sources you can see for yourself.
However, with misinformation being a thing, I decided to amend to this to give you some extra pointers as to why I was specific about these steps and not recommend things like strictly writing to the FCC.
1) Calling your reps and writing them is more effective than doing it via email. It’s been stated over, and over, and over again. Sadly, letters and phone calls are more effective.
2) Signing a petition can help, but without a way to verify you, it can be just as useful as shouting on Twitter (and will they look at Twitter? Nope.) It’s not totally useless, but it will not totally do the job.
See, if the FCC can use “bots” as an excuse (look at the sources in the original post), what makes you think a senator and representatives won’t? This is why “calling your rep” is the first action step and “writing your reps” is the last.
3) Regardless, the non-profit organizations’ job (the one I posted about) is to spread awareness BEYOND YOUR NETWORK. Think of them as a private army you’re recruiting for this one mission. You can only tell so many people and some of you don’t live in the United States, which makes it even harder!
4) BTW, you’re not just talking about this on Tumblr, are you? You have to talk to people on your other social networks as well. They are affected by things as well. Don’t want to talk? Post a link to here and let me do the talking for you.
5) While I have done the research for you, please do your own in conjunction with this. That way, you can be better informed, especially when talking about this to other people.
6) Oh and one more thing since I did neglect this in my last post. I forgot to post the “deadline” – the actual day they will vote. Well…
We have until December 14, 2017!
So, let’s mobilize! Organize! Transform and roll out!
Okay, maybe not the last one…
But make the calls to your reps! Scroll up and do your part, no matter which side you’re on!
You (or your parents) pay approx $40-$100 or higher for internet.
So that you can all use youtube, google, Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, etc. etc. etc. This isn’t limited to social media.
Net neutrality says, “Okay, since you already paid x amount of money for the month, you don’t have to pay for each asset individually. Enjoy your internet.”
NO net neutrality means that your service provider (comcast, at&t, verizon, whatever it may be) gets to say “ACTUALLY, it lines our pockets so give us an extra $5.99 for Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. Oh, but that doesn’t include Tumblr; that comes with our premium package. That’ll be $5.99 on its own as well. Now about your Google docs and email…
That’s why it’s important. That’s why I’m spamming Net Neutrality crap. If you’re using the internet, it’s YOUR problem.
-Email your congressman (text resist to 50409) It’s easy, you don’t have to talk to anyone.
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