Yeah, no, I’m cross-tagging because the lack of attention this is getting overall is pissing me off.
Ajit Pai killed Net Neutrality. You’ll start seeing the effects you were warned about on April 23rd. Oh, and he apparently got an award for Courage from the NRA gun nuts, too.
You can still help by calling your senators and representatives. We just need ONE MORE PERSON on our side to get the senate portion of Congress to overrule the FCC’s decision to kill net neutrality. The battle for the net won’t end there, but it’s a start. Go to battleforthenet to find out who your reps are and where they stand, and CONTACT THEM.
Twenty-three states are also suing the FCC for this. I haven’t looked into it yet, but I assume big businesses like Google and Amazon are as well. Nevertheless, we can’t rely on lengthy lawsuits alone. The changes to your internet start in less than two months. We don’t have a whole lot of time.
Blow this up. Contact your reps. Please, do something! We HAVE to get the decision overruled!
I haven’t done an update on Net Neutrality in a while as I was trying to find a reasonable “next step”, especially since it’s been out of the “news cycle” for a bit. Well, I have some good news.
According to the senator (minority leader Chuck Schumer) from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC. It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved
What’s stopping them now? They need just ONE more Republican and they have less than 30 days to do it.
So goes the next actionable step. You have to contact your senators and get them to suppose the Congressional Review of “the Open Internet Order of 2015″.
2) Via https://resist.bot/ – you can write to Congress using this site or Text RESIST to Resistbot on Telegram, Messenger, or to 50409 on SMS. By providing basic information, you can write your Senator to move forward.
Now, if you got a Democratic Senator, push them on to find that one Republican Senator. If you got a Republican Senator, encourage them to reconsider their stance on Net Neutrality.
We just need ONE Republican Senator and we have less than 30 days to do so.
Guys we got a lot going on political wise now but this one is one issue that should have been cut and dry and done.
Call your rep ASAP so they don’t forget to do this. Probably mention this would be the easiest legislation they would ever pass and get done
guys this is happening tomorrow and this looks like once it’s gone it will be a bitch and a half to get back CALL YOUR SENATORS PLEASE
Reblog the hell out of this please
Once the FCC officially rescinds Net Neutrality on Thursday, there’s a 60 day lag period where Congress can vote to not allow it to pass through. Basically if nothing is done, Net Neutrality will expire right around April 23rd. There’s a few big hurdles here still (need 51 votes in the Senate and a majority in the House, with enough to overturn a presidential veto) BUT during this time period the AGs of the states that have decided to sue the FCC plan to refile their lawsuit and begin litigation processes.
SO, what can we do?
CALL YOU CONGRESSPEOPLE! This website will help you find out who you need to call. Start with your Senators, they will need to do something first and right now there appears to be 50 votes for stopping the full rescinding of Net Neutrality so we currently only need to flip one more to get that started. If you have a Senator or Rep who has already committed to voting for legislation to reinstate NN, still call or email and thank them for their support. This helps keep them aware of what their constituents actually want.
If you need a good script, help finding out who to call, or just more information in general, 5 Calls is a great site where everything is coordinated together with who call and what to say. They currently have scripts up for a number of different issues on-going in Congress and it sounds like they’re prepping scripts for NN for tomorrow.
Can’t do phone calls? I understand, here’s an article that outlines how to fax and write letters to your Congress member through your text app. I know this route is tempting for all, but know that phone calls have been shown to be the single best option for change, so if you are able, please call first!
Find out if your state is among those that are planning to file suit against the FCC to try to get the ruling overturned. These states will have to refile within 10 days of the rescinding (What’s suppose to happen Thursday) so keep an eye on it. Call you AG’s office and either ask them if they plan to support the suit OR thank them for supporting it and encourage them to continue working for Neutrality.
Its important to remember that there will continue to be 10 million other things that feel just as pressing as this issue over the next 60 days. That’s how this administration works, its everything all at once because hopefully we can’t handle it all. So if you have a few minutes to spare for this (or any of the other important and pending issues listed on 5 Calls, like HR620 or a Clean DREAM Act), consider calling your Congress Member, using Resistbot to contact them, or EFF Action to email them.
Thank you
It’s that waiting period is why I’m concerned because I mean they had 60 days since thevote and nothing happened. We have to continue the push!
Now I need 2.5 hours of Shuri and Tony competing for who has the best footage of disastrous experiments going All Kinds Of Wrong But The Explosion Was Awesome ™
Democrat New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich is calling for the Dickey Amendment to be repealed, which prevents the Center For Disease Control and Prevention from studying gun violence and its effects on public health.
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