Today? You can try calling your congress person. In ops terms, this is like 'service httpd restart'. It may or may not help, but you'll feel like you did someth

Today? You can try calling your congress person. In ops terms, this is like 'service httpd restart'. It may or may not help, but you'll feel like you did something. Long-term? You need to vote in every election, for every human candidate position. Study the candidates in your local election and vote for one in every category that is not loony and disconnected from reality. It'll take hours of work. Like choosing a vendor, only you don't get paid. If you want to save your friends time, post the results of your research on Facebook and talk them down or unfriend them if they're mean instead of curious/rational about discussing it. (Actually, you would get paid, long-term, because all the access fees for "HD video" would be made illegal, because you took the time to speak up for your interests and statistically that works out at scale.) Also if you're rich, donate money. Use lobbying in plain view, and say that you're doing so after you do it. It only takes a million bucks to buy a senator for a year. If you're going up against Big Telecom, you might need ten million bucks. Consider it angel investing in the nation's infrastructure.