Why Didn't DU Take Part In The Fight For Net Neutrality? [View all]

[marym625]

Last edited Thu Sep 11, 2014, 12:02 PM - Edit history (1)

Yesterday over 10,000 different sites took place in an online "slow down the Internet" campaign. A link to the site "Battle for the Internet," put up by FreePress, was on all our favorite sites including the ACLU, Common Cause, Move On, etc as well as many huge commercial sites, tumblr, Netflix and Vimeo to name just a few.

Some of us on DU posted a link to Battle for the Internet asking our fellow DUers to participate. Many of us participated and then shared the link on twitter, Facebook and blogs.

The site made it unbelievably easy to write to the FCC, to sign the letter demanding a free Internet. To write to and then to even call each of our elected officials, without having to even dial the phone.

But Democratic Underground did not participate. While I would not expect DU to take part in every campaign to fight for progressive issues, this particular issue will, should we lose net neutrality, make DU a difficult place to visit. We would never expect or want DU to pay for a fast lane, nor would want DU to become a pay site. But after over a decade of a place to discuss, learn, share information without having to deal with the RWNJ trolls, with thousands of members, fighting for its right to exist seems not only the responsible thing to do but necessary.

Here are the results of the Battle for the Internet campaign yesterday. It is not over by any stretch of the imagination but it is a good start.

https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/#infographic

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