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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.
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.
Thanks for standing with us.
Robert Cruickshank
Demand Progress
Sources:
1. Bloomberg, "Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive," August 19, 2019
2. POTs and PANs, "ISPs Are Violating the Old Net Neutrality Rules," February 13, 2019
3. Bloomberg, "Sprint Is Throttling Microsoft’s Skype Service, Study Finds," November 8, 2018
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