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>Reach out to the rest of the FCC now. Tell them they can’t take away internet openness without a fight. How? As this article mentions, their comment system h
by RpFLCL 9y ago
>Reach out to the rest of the FCC now. Tell them they can’t take away internet openness without a fight.
How?
As this article mentions, their comment system had issues (spam and DDoS) and the only other avenue I've seen is to beg our representatives (who aren't part of the December vote) to do _something_.
It was a clean and concise piece, but I was hoping that an insider would provide a new course of action.
I've seen action across online media from users (reddit, Twitter, etc) as well as among peers. But not as much from the platforms themselves. Remember SOPA? Do those pushing for this really not hear the public's outrage yet?
- brian-armstrong 9y agoCall them. Write them. The internet comments don't really amount to much. But if you call or write, they will at least have a tally of how many complaints they've received. They may not see your complaint specifically but at least it counts, unlike internet complaints
- nightski 9y agoI'm happy to do so. But in the end should we even need to do this crap? Isn't it just so obvious how bad this is that our representatives should be fighting it without calls? It just baffles me.
- dboreham 9y agoCorruption is baffling?
- kilroy123 9y agoYes. That's called democracy.
- cmurf 9y agoWell actually I'd call it a kakistocracy at a the moment.
- bousaid 9y agoYes, you need to. So many people have already and we all need more voices.
- mratzloff 9y ago"Should" isn't a helpful word when reasoning about reality.
- ilaksh 9y agoNo we shouldn't.. the government is supposed to work for us.. but instead its basically a criminal enterprise in large part. At this point we may need to make a totally new decentralize internet with meshnets or something. I think that we should just come up with a way to do like cable protection/management in the streets and start laying out fiber in the gutters guerilla style.
- coliveira 9y agoThis may be about the Internet, but doing online "protest" will get us nowhere. Real protest means people going to the streets and making the government afraid of real violence. Other than that I don't see any way out.
- agf 9y agoReal protest means going to your local government to fight the internet access monopolies and duopolies. It means voting with your wallet and not supporting the companies pushing for this. It means showing up to vote next time instead of staying home. It means educating your neighbors about what this will mean for all of us. Don't pretend we've exhausted all alternatives to violence -- we haven't. We've barely done any of the things that have been successful in the past at causing change. Suggesting otherwise reduces our power, it doesn't enhance it. Sometimes we lose ground before we make progress. But that doesn't mean we've been defeated.
- umanwizard 9y agoMost of those have nothing to do with what “protest” means. It doesn’t just generically mean “participate in democracy”.
- agf 9y agoThey're not all what people traditionally mean when they say protest, but the parent was talking about violence -- which I consider a separate category from protest. Definitionally, any act that registers disapproval or objection is protest -- so everything I listed is covered.
- vvanders 9y agoWhen I only have one option for Internet > 5mbps and my job depends on it how do I fight with my wallet? I would happily pay 3x for municipal fiber but it'll never happen. The monopoly of ISPs is what makes this whole free market argument completely unbalanced.
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- rojobuffalo 9y agoEmail: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7ev42z/justin_trudeau_is_very_concerned_with_fccs_plan/dq7nwxz/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7ev42z/justin_tr...
- xellisx 9y agohttps://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-quit-trying-to-sabotage-net-neutrality https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-quit-trying-to-sabo... https://www.battleforthenet.com/ https://www.battleforthenet.com/
- jquery 9y agoThanks. Who should I email if I'm against Net Neutrality as imposed by the FCC?
- archgoon 9y agoWell, they have a phone number here, and I suppose you could directly email Ajit Pai. https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact https://www.fcc.gov/about/contact
- ep103 9y agobattleforthenet.com <-- This is a really great service that will dial each of your representatives for you, so you can state support for NN. democracy.io (EFF) <-- The same thing but via email. Not as effective as battleforthenet, but takes maybe 30 seconds to contact all of your representatives
- GrinningFool 9y agoFill out a form, click a button and the actual hard work is done for you - via robodialing and spam. Democracy in the modern age. Do you really think this is effective? That this lets your voice be heard?
- ilaksh 9y agoI sent an email to one of them saying something like "this type of moral failure will lead to the downfall of Western civilization". Heh. I hope it was an exaggeration. Ajit Pai - Ajit.Pai@fcc.gov Mignon Clyburn - Mignon.Clyburn@fcc.gov (confirmed 'no' vote) Michael O'Rielly - Mike.ORielly@fcc.gov Brendan Carr - Brendan.Carr@fcc.gov Jessica Rosenworcel - Jessica.Rosenworcel@fcc.gov (confirmed 'no' vote)