Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema is teaming up with Big Cable to block net neutrality.

Dear Friend,

There's only one Democrat in the entire U.S. Congress who doesn't stand with us on net neutrality: Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

In fact, she's teamed up with Big Cable’s favorite senator, Republican Roger Wicker, to work on weak legislation to undermine the Save the Internet Act, the House-passed bill to restore net neutrality.1

We can't afford to have Democrats working with Big Cable to block net neutrality, so Demand Progress is calling out Kyrsten Sinema in her home state of Arizona.

But we need to raise $7,500 by midnight tonight to meet our funding goals for the month of July and keep fighting to defend net neutrality. Will you donate today?

Yes, I'll donate to help save net neutrality and hold Kyrsten Sinema accountable in her home state of Arizona.

Big Cable has been running rampant over our internet since the repeal of net neutrality took place, throttling speeds and creating de facto paid prioritization with their fake unlimited plans that aren’t really unlimited at all.

In just the past year alone:2

  • Sprint throttled traffic to Skype in order to push customers to its own video call service.
  • AT&T and Verizon have been caught degrading video quality when customers use “unlimited” plans to stream content outside the corporations' own video services.
  • Comcast throttled speeds on its “unlimited” plan unless people paid extra for HD content.

Sometimes people's lives are at stake, such as when Verizon throttled speeds to a California fire department during a wildfire in order to force the department into paying higher rates.3

But we're fighting back. We got the Save the Internet Act through the House, clean and unamended. And soon  a federal court will hand down a ruling on the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality that could completely change the game by throwing out Ajit Pai’s repeal of net neutrality.

We're too close to victory to allow a Democrat like Kyrsten Sinema to stand in the way.

Unfortunately, we're behind on our fundraising goals for the month, so we might have to make tough choices about cutting back on key campaign actions that we need to hold Sen. Sinema accountable and defend net neutrality.

Will you rush a donation to Demand Progress to pass the Save the Internet Act and defend net neutrality?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank,
Demand Progress

Sources:

1. Multichannel, "Pressure Ramps Up on Sinema Over Net Neutrality," June 6, 2019
2. Public Knowledge, "Broadband Providers Are Quietly Taking Advantage of an Internet Without Net Neutrality Protections," January 29, 2019
3. Ibid.

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