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Senate Leader Harry Reid Gives FCC Political Cover in Net Neutrality Battle

“There’s no longer any question that Tom Wheeler has the political support to do the right thing. And the right thing is reclassifying broadband access providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act. Senator Reid makes clear that when Wheeler reclassifies that the Senate leadership will have his back.”

What do an environmental group in Ohio, a small military radio program, and a network of rural hospitals in Texas all have in common? They appear on a list of coalition members for a group pressuring the government to abandon net neutrality—rules to prevent broadband providers from creating Internet fast and slow lanes—but claim they did not intend to sign up for any such advocacy.

Read more here.

If you watch one thing today … it should be this. 

John Oliver on Net Neutrality.

Rep. Bob Latta has just introduced a bill (H.R. 4752) that would stop the FCC from taking the necessary step to protect REAL Net Neutrality.

This move borders on insulting and actually forbids the FCC from doing what millions of people (LIKE YOU!), companies, innovators, artists and organizations have been urging it to do: reclassify broadband providers as common carriers.

Tell Congress to say NO to this toxic bill.

The flashpoints for activism are the many failures of the existing media system. Whether it’s the silencing of dissenting views, the attacks on online privacy, the throttling of Internet access or the monopolization of choice, the problems are often rooted in bad public policy.

Fighting for the Right to Free Speech

by Timothy Karr

The only way we’re going to win back Net Neutrality is if FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler finds the courage to do the right thing. And a message from Google’s Larry Page, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg carries a lot of weight in Washington.

Help Us Bring Back Net Neutrality: Sign our letter urging Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix and Yahoo to save the Internet.

Bad news: Comcast just announced that it’s buying Time Warner Cable.

No one woke up this morning wishing their cable company was bigger or had more control over what they watch and how they get online. But that’s the reality we’ll face unless the DoJ and the FCC do their jobs and block this merger. 

Tell the FCC and DoJ to stop this merger: http://bit.ly/1oqolLw

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The NSA “is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world.” (Washington Post)

Join us in protesting the National Security Agency’s wide-ranging invasion of privacy.

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What do ONE MILLION petition signatures look like?

Watch us deliver over 1 million petitions to the FCC demanding that it restore Net Neutrality and protect the Internet.

Breaking news: The D.C. Appeals Court just killed Net Neutrality.

This could be the end of the Internet as we know it. But it doesn’t have to be. 

Tell the FCC: We Need Real Net Neutrality NOW: http://bit.ly/2XPBtkt