crimmindsdaily:

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 now if you haven’t already!

FCC explains how net neutrality will be protected without net neutrality rules:

laurelrusswurm:

This is the very definition of magical thinking.

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.)

afangirlamongotherthings:

#breaktheinternet

If the FCC succeeds, it will be the end of most of our first amendment rights.

theunholyqueens:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

libraryadvocates:

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

Destroying net neutrality will hurt artists and small businesses the most:

It will hurt people.  

tracer-isms:

I just hope We can keep Net Neutrality

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.

phroyd:

Stop The End Of Net Neutrality!

Phroyd