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
Guys we’re being presented with an opportunity to have Ajit Pai FIRED from his position which someone as corrupt and untrustworthy as him has no right to continue holding! SPREAD THE WORD!!!
#FireAjitPai
#FireAjitSavetheNet
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!
According to recent news, Net Neutrality, the set of rules that protect our Internet rights and freedoms, is on the line. The principle that enables online freedom to publish, access, and receive any content you wish might be impacted on December 14th, 2017. If Congress votes to change the bill, millions of Americans’ safety, First Amendment rights, and access to information would be affected.
Almost since President Trump took office, his FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has been pushing for Net Neutrality to be reconsidered on Capital Hill. Millions of Americans have spoken up, on social media and directly to our government officials, requesting that the bill stay the same. Pay has ignored these messages and insists that Net Neutrality limits innovation and economic growth. But what he’d really be doing, if he manages to get the bill off the board, would be clearing away regulations that prevent telecom giants, like Verizon or Comcast, from controlling what content users obtain. Right now, companies can’t pick what websites and services get to us faster, for censorship or economic reasons. They aren’t allowed to slow down or speed up their own content or sites to stifle a competitor. The general fear, and the reason for Net Neutrality, is that if they could, they would. Booming businesses could profit off of the violation of our constitutional rights, if Ajit Pai’s mission succeeds.
You can say and view and do whatever you want online. All the information and opportunity on the planet is at your fingertips, because of Net Neutrality. Heck, while writing this I had to research the details of what’s actually been going down lately. How? Net Neutrality. Social media, websites, applications, databases – so much would be effected, and not for the better. A lot of people who use the Internet to make a change, marginalized communities standing up for their rights, all these people could be silenced. For money.
We owe it to Net Neutrality, the result of millions of activists in 2015, that America is as safe, informed, and free as it is now. Hey, it’s the reason I’m able to run this blog – using my voice to talk about what I believe in, which not everyone out there can do.
There’s still time. In just days, on December 14, the bill will be voted on. Send this to friends, contact government officials and politicians, take action now. While it isn’t too late.
NET NEUTRALITY IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE WHO USES THE INTERNET
“Laura Tribe: Net neutrality sounds really boring, and it’s really important. They’re the rules that ensure that when you log onto the internet … you get the whole internet. When you log in it means that your internet service provider can’t pick and choose what you see online.
They can’t charge you more for some content or less for others, and they’re not allowed to discriminate against competing content to make sure that … when you pay your internet bill, you get the entire internet when you log in.”
