Net Neutrality Ends on December 14th?

Have YOU contacted your Political Representatives
urging them to SAVE Net Neutrality?

If I wanted to slip something hateful by the American Public
I’d do it at a time when they are busiest: Christmas Time

DON’T LET THIS TACTIC WORK FOR THEM!
Take a minute, send a message

© Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC
from the What Kind of World do YOU Want? Series

Important to ANYONE who blogs

The FCC is about to vote on its plan to kill net neutrality – Congress can still stop this travesty.  They need to hear from internet users like you — RIGHT NOW.

We have just DAYS to stop the potential for bandwidth throttling — and to sing out to make sure that additional online fees can’t be levied to give preference to certain companies and certain idealogies.

NOTHING we usually do online or in December is more important
than letting our political representatives know our thoughts:
STOP THIS!

My 2017 Christmas present to all of you

Although this is NOT a political blog, I am not going to be posting anything festive, fun or informational until this deadline has passed – and I’m going to remind you to ring in every day until December 14th.

• Depending on whether we are willing to, collectively, stop this, my days of being willing to continue to support this brain-based, self-help, neurodiversity blog with many non-billable hours of my life may be numbered.
• So nothing is more important to me than nudging each of you to make another call, send another tweet or email, and encourage YOUR readership to step up to stop this.

Think YOUR voice doesn’t really matter much?

So did well over 200 million eligible voters (231,556,622) who couldn’t be bothered to vote last November (the majority registered Democrats).

Political cronyism feeds on collective apathy — that’s what allows them to make deals, close ranks and do what’s easy.

If we won’t stand up for our own needs and desires,
why should we expect THEM to?

You have a voice ONLY if you use it

CONTACT U.S. Senate: Senators of the 115th Congress.

 

If you missed my first post about this issue and are scratching your head, PLEASE take the time to get informed.

Click the link immediately below to read about it and watch the extremely amusing 13 minute video included.

We need EVERY American voice to save Net Neutrality

Or click to watch that video currently at the top of my sidebar.
Or scroll down to the list of Related Links
(always found below my articles.)

You can also learn more about what’s going on and how to ring in at links below:

• https://www.battleforthenet.com/
• https://www.facebook.com/resistbot/
• Gronda Morin article on Net Neutrality & the Republican FCC majority
• What you need to know about net neutrality (before it gets taken away)
• Battle for the ‘net and how we won the FIRST time

Remember that you can always check out the sidebar
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HOVER before clicking – often a box will appear to tell you what to expect

The Net Neutrality Issue Cliff Notes:

This push to end net neutrality along with with Republicans’ tax cut proposals are designed to appease the party’s wealthy donor base, only a portion of their war on the middle class and the poor.

To win, we need to bring more members of Congress onto “Team Internet Equality”— especially Republicans.

Republican members of Congress face massive pressure from party leadership to oppose Net Neutrality, partly because of lobbying by the cable companies (AT&T, Verizon and Comcast primarily), and partly because they have been encouraged to see it as “Obama era” policy.

Some Congressional Republicans are actually aware of the need for rules to keep internet providers from favoring certain users over others — but they won’t break ranks with party leaders unless they hear from tons of the folks they supposedly represent that Net Neutrality IS NOT and does not need to be treated as a partisan issue:

• Net Neutrality predates Obama
• It has always been a design principle of the Internet.

Found HERE

 

Find YOUR Representatives below:

For ANYONE who is NOT on board with broadband companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast (and the FCC’s Republican chairman, ex-Verizon General Counsel Ajit Pai, who has made undoing the government’s net neutrality rules one of his TOP priorities)  —  it is time to man the phones and fax, tweet, and email our US Congress legislators.

Demand that lawmakers NOT pass their tax cuts bill for the rich and that net neutrality is NOT ended on December 14, 2017 as is currently planned.

TO FAX:

Resistbot will do it all for you. Text “RESIST” to 50409.

OR message Resistbot on Facebook and it will walk you through the steps to fax your Senator and will tell you when your fax has been delivered.

TO CALL:

The main US Senate phone line 202-225-3121 (202-224-3121) or
YOU CAN FIND PHONE NUMBERS FOR EVERY SENATOR HERE.

Find Your Representative · House.gov – U.S. House of Representatives

Call FCC: 202-418-1000

IF YOU TWEET . . .

Where do your members of Congress stand?
Find out, and tweet them!

Tweets are surprisingly effective.

Time is short to stop both the tax cuts for the rich and the end of net neutrality.
USE your voice or LOSE your voice!

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On Board Around the ‘Net (pick one that speaks to YOU, click it and read it!)

• Battle for the ‘net and how we won the FIRST time
• Save Net Neutrality or Your internet connection might slow down after December 14th
• Reddit on Net Neutrality
• Net Neutrality
• The Looming End of Net Neutrality (and why you should care)
• An Impromptu Blog: Net Neutrality is in Danger
• Letter to My Representatives and the FCC on Net Neutrality
  (from lead developer of WordPress for many years)
• Verizon Opposes Net Neutrality/ I’m Switching To Google/ Protest On 12/7/17
• Net Neutrality: This is Important (with an upload template)
• New American Resistance – Net Neutrality
• These are the arguments against net neutrality — and why they’re wrong
• Trump’s douchebag FCC chairman is very bad at lying about net neutrality
• Money Monday: Why Net Neutrality Is So Important (blackamericaweb.com)
• Destroying net neutrality will hurt artists and small businesses the most
• Gamers, Net Neutrality Could Hit You the Hardest
• Net Neutrality: What It Is and Why I’m Fighting For It