It just occurred to me that I haven't seen many people at all on my watch list talking about the Net Neutrality issue, so I'm speaking up.
The internet is in danger. You've heard this before, but the thing is, it's actually happening this time, there's a good chance we may not win.
If you don't know what is going on, Net Neutrality is what we already have. We have internet that is neutral. We buy a computer, it comes with a browser like Safari or Firefox or whatever, you pay for internet in your home, and the world is at your fingertips. Without Net Neutrality, the world will have tolls. Lots of them. You want to watch youtube? They'll want money. You want to talk to your internet friends? Pay up. You want to look something up on google? That costs extra too. Games, shopping, news... money, money money. Also, you know how you can go to literally any website you want? Your cable company can block you from sites they don't support. They'll be monitoring where you go. They're controlling your every move, they're taking away your FREEDOM. If you want the internet you have now you need to pay a shit ton of money in total... probably monthly. You want Net Neutrality, and they want it gone.
We only have until December 14th before the FCC votes to move forward with this. And guess what, there's corruption involved. Cable companies want this extra money SO BADLY that they're paying people bigtime to vote "yes" to this shit. They know we know and they don't even care.
I don't get involved. Ever. Ever. But in the past few days I've learned it's a lot easier to step up and say something than it might seem.
So please, spread the word on your social media to the people you know- NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS. Google the situation, or check out
#netneutrality on Tumblr or something and you'll find a gazillion ways to help. Look up who represents you in congress and in the senate and literally call them up. Call the FCC
1-202-418-1000 and leave a voicemail /NICELY/ asking to vote to keep Net Neutrality (panicking won't help, threats are bad), or at least push back the vote (so we have more time to protest or have people reconsider). Use Resistbot to email congress. Tweet to the FCC. Sign petitions. Write your own posts. Make it known.
There are way better, more informative posts than mine, but I'm trying. You try too.
~R2