Reddit Political Action Committee: We're Not Happy With the New Net Neutrality Rules

[Joanne98]

The FCC passed net neutrality regulation Tuesday. To many Internet users, this law's implication is vague. How will this improve our user experience and why should we care one way or another about what the government has to say about the net?

To one group of users, this law, its implication and why they needed to speak out was clear. Reddit PAC was the brain child of Eddie Geller, a Los Angeles comedian who was upset about the possible defeat of net neutrality. He went to Reddit to express his dismay in a call to arms.

"I got sick of being told what we can't have, because the political climate is about to be ‘inopportune.’  So, I had the idea that the users of Reddit band together to demand action," Geller said. He decided to create a political action committee to harness the impromptu support he received for his post, in an attempt to become a serious voice on net neutrality. Geller and his group incorporated, created a website to facilitate grassroots action, traveled to Washington and immediately began to work in tandem with other groups.

I spoke with Geller about the impact of the net neutrality vote and his group's actions to understand more about neutrality from a grassroots perspective.

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