Are you still sure that net neutrality is a foregone conclusion?

[marym625]

Wheeler has been asked to delay the vote.

Republican FCC Commissioners Ask Wheeler To Delay Net Neutrality Vote, Release Proposal

“We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it,” Republican Commissioners Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly said in a statement Monday. “Then, after the commission reviews the specific input it receives from the American public and makes any modifications to the plan as appropriate, we could proceed to a final vote.” 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/23/republican-fcc-commissioners-ask-wheeler-to-delay-net-neutrality-vote-release-proposal/


PLEASE, make sure you make your wishes know. This site makes it so easy. They will even dial your representatives for you. They have a script you can use if you're unsure exactly what you want to say. A letter you can sign.

Don't let net neutrality slip through our fingers.

BATTLE FOR THE NET!
https://www.battleforthenet.com/

[RiverLover]

1. There was an excellent article about what the rethugs & lobbyists might kill for us internet users

yesterday~

These Cities Built Cheap, Fast, Community-Owned Broadband. Here’s What Net Neutrality Means for Them—and All of Us

These two issues—local community-owned Internet networks and “net neutrality”—are intimately related, and on February 26, the FCC will vote on the future of both.

The struggle over community broadband and “net neutrality” has far-reaching implications—not only for the Internet in general, but for the future of a democratic “new economy” built, first and foremost, from the level of local community concerns. The question is: Who will control this critical technology, the nation’s largest corporations or the American people?
Net neutrality: How we got to this week’s vote...





http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/02/23/cities-built-cheap-fast-community-owned-broadband-heres-net-neutrality-means-us/

[marym625]

3. Thank you for this

This is actually a much better post than mine. You should make it a post

I have been trying to get people to see that this vote on the 26th is not the end of it or that it's a done deal. Maybe now, with the Republican commissioners asking for a delay, it will make people see that.

Seriously, you should make this a main post. Maybe add the request to delay the vote.

[BlueCaliDem]

5. The Neo-Confederates and obscenely wealthy Libertarians know that the internet is the most

powerful tool for Americans to get their fact-based news. Cable, broadcast, most print, and radio news outlets have been made useless propaganda tools for the top 1% who don't want an educated and informed electorate. That's why they've bought out our 4th Estate and now control them all - hence the absence of real and unbiased news for the American people and the core reason why the United States is second only to Italy as the most ignorant country in the developed world.

Now that the youth - and most sane Americans - have ditched television and are getting their news online, the titans of propaganda want to control the Internet as well. They want to control who knows what. We can't let that happen.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. Done! eom

[marym625]

4. THANK YOU! n/t

[hobbit709]

6. the only things I'm sure of is that it gets hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

And that we will get sold out to the corporations no matter what the season.

[marym625]

10. If we continue to ruin the environment like we have been

We won't even be sure of that. Being sold out to corporations, yep, a certainty.

[Scuba]

7. No. Silencing dissent is too important to the oligarchs to let net neutrality become law ...

... without a major fight.

[marym625]

11. I'm sorry Scuba

I am not exactly sure what you mean. I know what you mean by silencing dissent. I am just not sure how it applies here.

[Scuba]

13. If big corporations can throttle down access to DU while giving Fox the fast-lane ...

... it will help them silence dissent.

[marym625]

16. Ah

Sorry, I didn't follow the thought. Stuck in my own I guess.

Yes, exactly. Wish DU was part of "The Battle"

[onenote]

8. Yes. Wheeler has rejected the request

[marym625]

12. Which makes me insecure about the vote

[MannyGoldstein]

9. I doubt that 332 pages of regs are needed for net neutrality

If it's that long, it's likely so they could hide nasty things in it. I think that studying it is a very good idea.

[marym625]

14. I do wish they would publish the entire thing

But the fact the Republicans on the commission think it's bad makes me think it's good

[onenote]

19. The regs themselves aren't 332 pages long

The regs are accompanied by a "Report and Order" that describes the legal and factual issues raised and the comments for and against various outcomes -- keeping with the quasi-judicial/quasi-legislative character of independent agencies, the Report and Order is, in some respects, akin to the legislative history that accompanies a statute and, in some respects, akin the opinion that accompanies a court order. In addtiion, other parts of the document will include a list of the commenting parties and a separate, statutorily required "Regulatory Flexibility Act" analysis. The Open Internet order adopted in 2010 had 9 pages of regulations; the document in which those rules were contained was well over 100 pages, and included an 85 page Report and Order, a 15 page list of commentersand a 22 page RFA analysis.

Nonetheless, there will be plenty to study in the order and it will undoubtedly contain statements that will concern both the proponents and opponents of the rules. Thus it has always been.

[MannyGoldstein]

20. Thank you!

I learned something!

[wildbilln864]

15. k & freaking r! n/t

[marym625]

17. Thank you! n/t

[wildbilln864]

18. thank you for raising this again.

we can never take anything for granted.

[marym625]

21. Unfortunately,

Most of DU and DU itself, are.