John,
Right now, I need your help to stop corporations like Comcast and Verizon from controlling how we experience the internet and selling our personal information to data brokers.
You see, the FCC is moving a proposal to restore net neutrality – after Trump’s FCC destroyed it in 2017. These new net neutrality protections would guarantee a free and open internet for all – a crucial step towards ensuring every American can fully participate in our democracy.
But ever since the FCC announced their intentions to reinstate this pro-democracy, pro-consumer protection, Big Tech lobbyists and right-wing lawmakers like Ted Cruz have sprung into action to try and block it or water it down. [1]
John, we must push back and make it clear: a free and open internet is essential to democracy. Will you join us today and urge the FCC to fully reinstate net neutrality protections?
More and more, voters around the country rely on internet access to make their voices heard in our democracy – from online voter registration, to researching candidates, to requesting mail-in ballots.
But when Trump’s FCC repealed net neutrality in 2017, they gave big corporations total control over our internet – putting free and open access at risk.
Since then, we’ve seen internet providers speed up service on certain websites, and slow it down – or even block it – on others. They’ve failed to provide crucial internet infrastructure in rural areas, low-income communities, and communities of color. And they’ve even slashed firefighters’ internet access during severe wildfires. [2]
But now, we have a better opportunity than ever to change this. With your help, we can restore net neutrality and return control of the internet to the American people.
The deadline to speak out on this is tomorrow, January 17th – so we must act NOW. Tell the FCC and Congress that you support net neutrality.
John, I hope you’ll join me in taking action today.
Thanks for all you do,
Raelyn Roberson, Media & Democracy Campaigner
and the team at Common Cause
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[1] https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-cramer-colleagues-express-opposition-with-proposed-fcc-net-neutrality-rules
[2] https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/9/28/23893138/fcc-net-neutrality-returns
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640815074/verizon-throttled-firefighters-data-as-mendocino-wildfire-raged-fire-chief-says
