LISTEN UP, GUYS. If you’re not scared, then you’re not paying attention! In less than 48 hours the #FCC will be holding a vote on whether or not to repeal #NetNeutrality.
What this means: You will have to pay your internet providers extra money to use this dumb app, and all your other social media sites. It means you will pay extra to use sites for your college classes. I means you will pay extra money for Google. And it means your internet providers get to CONTROL what you see and what you don’t see.
Imagine the implications of this: LGBT youth being cut off from any and all lifelines, especially if living in a violent household, the wedge continuing to be driven between the rich and the rest of us, less access to jobs, less access to education, and most importantly, less access to information regarding what’s going on in our country.
Repealing Net Neutrality is a violation of our First Amendment rights. If conglomerate internet providers get to control what we see and what we don’t, they could limit our access to the information we need to stay informed.
PLEASE text “RESIST” to 50409. This is a Bot which will take your area/name so that you can TEXT your Representatives. YOU DON’T HAVE TO SPEAK TO ANYONE, THE WHOLE PROCESS TAKES 5 MINUTES! Your texts get send via fax directly to your Reps’ offices.
For fuck’s sake, this will impact EVERYONE, INCLUDING YOU. Text the Bot, “Tell Congress not to support repealing Net Neutrality, you fuckin’ wanker” if you have to. But you MUST do SOMETHING.
PARTICIPATE IN YOUR REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY!!!