Hello everyone! I’m writing this to say we should all be voting to save net neutrality. If you’re a student, content creator, content supporter, business owner, etc. everyone should do something. Here’s two ways I know that work great.
Resist Bot: Text RESIST to 50409. This is a simple way to help save net neutrality. All you do is follow what the messages will ask, which will be a name, an address, and later an email. This hooks you up to your congress and you can send a message to them. Then afterwards you will get an email confirming your message has sent.
Calling in: (202)-759-7766. This number will ask for your zip code to send you to a person who will send your message to congress. They will also ask for your address, and your name. Please don’t be mean or aggressive when you call because this is just the messenger who will be sending the message to congress.
What you can say/type: “Hello. I strongly oppose the FCC’s vote to overturn net neutrality laws.”
“I am alarmed at the FCC’s desire to end net neutrality. I support free and open internet and I hope my representative will do the same”
Tell your friends, your roommates, your family, your classmates, your followers, tell anyone who uses the internet! Please take in part of this!
Our favorite Tech Analyst is urging everyone to call the Chairman of the FCC to oppose the repeal of Net Neutrality. If you watch Criminal Minds online, enjoy gifs, or use Tumblr, the repeal of Net Neutrality will affect you. Call 1-202-418-100 nowif you haven’t already!
Do you believe the telephone hookup person or cable repair technician will arrive when they say they will? Why would you believe ISPs will police themselves?
If ISPs could be trusted to police themselves, this would never even have come up. No ISP would never have throttled any customer.
(Throttling is when they give you less access than you are paying for. And then blame you for being greedy because you expect them to actually deliver the service you are paying for.)
The latest #NetNeutrality update has been posted to District Dispatch. It includes ways that you can get involved today.
If you haven’t already, take some time to call or email your Senators and Representatives. Ask them to support net neutrality and tell them how your libraries benefit from strong, enforceable net neutrality protections.
Join protests online with some suggested social media messages on December 13 and 14:
Hey @AjitPaiFCC – America’s 120,000 libraries depend on equitable
and robust access to the internet to serve our communities. We need
#netneutrality!
.@FCC – Our libraries’ digital collections, podcasts, video
tutorials, and more rely on an open internet. @AjitPaiFCC, keep
#netneutrality!
#netneutrality is the First Amendment of the internet. @FCC, please
protect the right to read, create and share freely without commercial
gatekeepers.
OR tell us a story about what net neutrality means for your library and tag @ALALibrary, @FCC, @AjitPaiFCC
It’s helped me with some of my depressed episodes, find new friends, listen to awesome music… And without it… Everything will go bad.
If we lose it, Everything will just go to shit. People will struggle to use the internet AND have a normal wage, causing costs for everything to go up, causing poverty to skyrocket, causing havoc across this “great nation” of ours.
It needs to stay. No matter what, It has to. It’s become this incredible thing, and nobody should be enslaved to these companies. Please. We can do this.
