Dear Friend,

Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality gave Big Cable the green light to
create internet slow lanes, and now it's happening.

Researchers tracking internet data speeds all over the country have found
that popular apps like YouTube and Netflix are being throttled "pretty
much everywhere, all the time."^1

If Big Cable can get away with this, it won't be long before they become
even more aggressive about throttling data and charging extra to get off
the internet slow lane.

The good news is that a federal court could throw out the FCC's repeal of
net neutrality as soon as THIS WEEK. Following the ruling, we'll need to
launch a massive grassroots effort to stop Big Cable from passing anti-net
neutrality legislation.

[ [link removed] ]Will you donate to help stop the internet slow lanes and restore net
neutrality?

Researchers conducted 650,000 tests in the U.S. for a year, beginning in
early 2018. They caught AT&T slowing down Netflix and YouTube more than
70% of the time. And they that found all four of the big telecoms
regularly slowed down videos.

This is just the latest example of the telecoms controlling what we see
and do online now that net neutrality rules are gone.

AT&T is pushing customers to its own DirecTV by imposing data caps on
competing services.^2 Sprint has been slowing down Skype to drive
customers to its own calling service.^3

This is the beginning of the end for a free and open net. But there's
still time to restore net neutrality.

First, Demand Progress is pressuring Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell to hold a vote on the Save the Internet Act. The bill has
already passed the House, and a bipartisan majority in the Senate voted to
restore net neutrality just last year.

Second, we're preparing for the federal courts to hand down a critical
decision on Ajit Pai's net neutrality repeal. If a positive ruling is
made, we'll need a gigantic rapid response to capitalize on it right away.

Finally, we're demanding that every presidential candidate pledge to
uphold net neutrality if elected.

[ [link removed] ]We're going all-in to save net neutrality. Will you rush a donation to
Demand Progress and help stop Big Telecom from throttling all the time?

Thanks for standing with us.

Robert Cruickshank
Demand Progress

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Sources:

1. Bloomberg, "Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive,"
[ [link removed] ]August 19, 2019
2. POTs and PANs, "ISPs Are Violating the Old Net Neutrality Rules,"
[ [link removed] ]February 13, 2019
3. Bloomberg, "Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft’s Skype Service, Study
Finds," [ [link removed] ]November 8, 2018
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