Flap Your Lips Friday
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 9th, 2014
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Christopher: Done. Thanks. Here’s one to support your post from the website Save The Internet.
Net Neutrality Activists Prepare for Day of Action as Pressure Mounts Against the FCC
Timothy Karr, 201-533-8838
WASHINGTON — On Thursday, nearly 100 organizations sent a letter urging President Obama and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to reject any rules that would harm the open Internet. Wheeler has been under intense pressure to abandon his proposed rules, which reportedly would allow Internet service providers to prioritize content from websites and services that are willing to pay an extra fee.
“Instead of restoring this important principle of nondiscrimination, the Commission’s proposal would make things even worse,” reads the letter, which was signed by Access, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange, Common Cause, Consumers Union, CREDO Action, Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, among many others. “Internet service providers should not be in the business of picking winners and losers online … Instead, the Commission must propose and adopt legally sound rules that keep the Internet an open and nondiscriminatory platform for speech and innovation.”
Also on Thursday, Free Press launched a website coordinating a May 15 day of action to save the Internet. The suite of on- and offline actions — including a rally in front of the FCC that morning — will coincide with the FCC’s next open meeting, where commissioners will vote on whether to proceed with Chairman Wheeler’s proposal.
The site may15.savetheinternet.com is an online hub for public protest. It enables people to RSVP for the May 15 rally, petition and call the FCC, add action banners to their own websites, reach out to Congress via social media and learn more about what other activists and organizations are doing around the country.
On May 15, thousands of activists, organizations and companies will participate online and off to oppose the FCC’s plan to kill the open Internet and allow rampant discrimination online.
Free Press Campaign Director Josh Levy made the following statement:
“2014 is a defining year for the future of the Internet. The drumbeat leading up to May 15th — and the day of action itself — are part of a larger grassroots campaign to protect Net Neutrality and make sure control of the Internet doesn’t fall into the hands of a few powerful corporations.
“Chairman Wheeler’s pay-for-play proposal has catalyzed a nationwide movement to safeguard the open Internet. On May 15th, we’ll harness the public’s outrage and take this protest to the doorstep of the FCC. We won’t relent until the agency abandons this proposal completely and puts in place lasting protections for the open Internet.”
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Readers: I HOPE you clicked over on Christopher’s post and signed. Mark your calendars…May 15th is the day marked to save the internet. We all have our voices and have the capability to make them be heard. Do what you can to save one of our very important freedoms on the net. Take some action now below please. Thank you!
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May 10th, 2014 at 1:02 am
I have a lot to say if I can get in.
May 10th, 2014 at 1:02 am
I have a lot to say if I can get in.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Going beyond petitions now at this crisis point, I see, to calls for street protests – which we can comfortably assume the organizers want to be well-behaved.
Will polite people with signs filing in an orderly way through the street (on permitted routes?) do the trick for this cause, when they basically never have before? Will the powerful get a-quaking in their shoes, this time?
Will these “marches” be anything like those of the Greeks, or the Spanish, or the Brazilians?
May 10th, 2014 at 6:39 pm
Yoho, The protest must be brought to the front doors of the corporate broadcast outlets that use our public airwaves. We must (peacefully) demand direct access to cameras and microphones.
Access to the public airwaves of radio and television is a 1st amendment right (Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC, 1969).
Simply marching in the streets allows the corporate media to slander, distort and ultimately define a protest until the momentum of the protest is drained and reversed.
Only three years ago the corporate media defamed Occupy Wall Street protesters as filthy, stupid, drug dealing losers. This smear campaign intentionally misrepresented a clear call for accountability and efficiently kneecapped the entire protest.
We must learn from past mistakes and adapt. We need a smarter protest strategy.
Large numbers of citizens (tens of millions) must be informed in a short period of time that the open internet is under attack.
Only direct access to the public airwaves of radio and television, where protesters can speak without interference to their fellow citizens, offers this capability.
The front doors of the corporate broadcast outlets that use our public airwaves are the primary locations where all future protests must take place.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:39 pm
We could just all hang out the windows and yell we are as mad as hell.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:40 pm
What is your suggestion? I invite you to start organizing one right here with your expected code of conduct that you believe will be the most effective at bringing about your stated desired result.
You consistently mock any protest, any movement of people against the current power regime, so here is your chance to give us more than ineffective bitterness.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:44 pm
Cynthia#4, I’m certain yohocoma gives OWC no credit whatsoever. This person consistently rhetorically shits on every single act of resistance, and those resisting. He/she hates those who actually do get out on the streets and take a stand.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:57 pm
Donna#5, Howard Beale, Network.
May 10th, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Phyllis#7, at least I can get your name right. Look around you at what shit-upon people in other places in the world do. Take off your privileged American left chicken blinders.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:01 pm
Yoho#3, I agree.
THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION !!!!!!!!!
Assuming that voting is still an option and Marshal Law has not been imposed before the next election cycle we must utilize the tool of
Direct Democracy.
Direct Democracy by-passes the existing compromised political parties and fulfills the capabilities of a third party, without the difficult and time consuming gathering of resources needed to build the required infrastructure.
What is Direct Democracy and how does it work ?
Direct Democracy is a process by which the Citizens of a Democratic Society collectively create a Platform of Laws, Values and Ideas of which their chosen representatives implement, or face the result of immediate recall.
Lets call the home for those Citizens who choose to participate Citizen Central.
Citizen Central is our home where all the demographic information of the Citizens who participate is stored.
Lets say that Internet Neutrality is one of the issues that is on our platform. Utilizing the resources of Citizen Central we can determine the number of Citizens who support Net Neutrality, their Zip Code the names of the Senators and Representatives of Congress who represent their interests
From the demographics we can determine whether a majority of Citizens within a district support Net Neutrality, if there is a majority then the Senator and Representative of that district is notified of their Citizens wishes and votes for net neutrality or will not be reelected in the next election and a recall partition will be implemented.
If there is not a majority of Citizens within a district who support Net Neutrality then we know where our resources should be directed trying to create a majority.
The same approach can be used for;
Reduction of CO2 emissions.
Enshrining Women’s rights.
Revising the Tax Codes.
Revising our foreign policies.
And whatever else we choose to be a priority.
So if all the members of Move On, OWS, Normal, etc. were able to unite under one platform, we would have a powerful Citizens grass roots organization capable of changing the world where sanity and compassion replaces greed and ignorance.
If not now, then never, we are running out of time for an enlightened Humanities survival.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:02 pm
Hillary is part of Obama Inc..
Is she for this? My bet she is for it and then Progressives tell us to vote for her????
What is with the progressive leadership?
I vote Green and let the dumocrats who worship Cults Of Personality go to Hell.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:02 pm
You can take to the streets but they will take pictures of five people and say that’s all of them ala Occupy. etc.
I think we should plan to boycott the net for specific days. No one will buy, look, listen, or shop say on May 1, 2014 . No transactions, no wish lists, no comments, no listening to their propaganda, nothing. If they want our eyes and our money they can get the hell away from the people’s bought and paid for Internet,
We can do it say on every day that ends in 1. For example, May 1, May 11, and May 21. Keep going through June and then maybe add more days if they don’t back off.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:08 pm
Yoho#9, You are a bitter old fool.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Yoho#3 Or Buenos Aires where the Argentines fill the streets and beat pot & pans making a loud din.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Steffen#11, Hillary has joined in the smear campaign of Edward Snowden.
http://thedailybanter.com/2014…
Read the comments and you’ll see that Democrats are standing and applauding.
It should be crystal clear that Hillary will be Obama’s third term (or Bush’s fifth).
May 10th, 2014 at 7:13 pm
Tex#12, These crooks at AT&T are the masters of using public dollars for private profits like power companies. We pay for infrastructure then they dig under ground tunnels and steal it from us to turn around and charge us for its use.
Not only that this proposal will give effective censorship power to giant telecom corporations. I say its time to break AT&T and other fat cats into smaller more manageable entities.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:14 pm
Tex#12, A boycott won;t work for this. ISPs like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T, the villains here; charge
most customers a set fee each month.
Boycotting the net for a day or two just lowers their expenses without costing them a dime. A loud street protest outside all their offices nationwide would be much more effective.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:25 pm
Stanley#17, “Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T”
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May 10th, 2014 at 7:26 pm
I say talk to the people whom you buy thing form on the net. Tell them you are going shopping and not on line anymore.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:27 pm
People should demand not only that the rules are changed but that Wheeler is thrown out on his @ss. Maybe that would let new FCC drones know that people mean business. Screw protesting rules. There need to be consequences for being an obvious and obscene corporate whore.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Give me the dates and I will not use the internet when called upon. Give me a chance to use a network that is routed through Brazil or France and I will use it. If necessary, I will go back to the printed word but I WILL NOT pay a 0.01$ more.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:29 pm
I have absolutely no doubt that a petition is the most useless form of “activism” imaginable. Maybe now that the internet will be killed, either the masses will return to plugging back into the tv or, perhaps, deciding to engage in the town square.
People often ask why, in America, street activism does not occur. One reason among others is that in other countries, the social structures support communal activity. In America the average person is plugged into the internet or the the tv to a very detrimental extent.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:29 pm
I have absolutely no doubt that a petition is the most useless form of “activism” imaginable. Maybe now that the internet will be killed, either the masses will return to plugging back into the tv or, perhaps, deciding to engage in the town square.
People often ask why, in America, street activism does not occur. One reason among others is that in other countries, the social structures support communal activity. In America the average person is plugged into the internet or the the tv to a very detrimental extent.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:30 pm
Where were the activists to support OWS? Where were the people when Obama suspended the Constitution and instituted the NDAA? Where is the demand to have franken foods labelled? Why are people not marching in the streets over safe air and water?
Look, the United States is not a democratic republic. The 2000 coup d’etat ended the rule of law and ushered in the rule of men. Americans do not have a peaceful mechanism with which to influence government – albeit corporate owned and controlled.
So, lacking some spontaneous political mass, born again, patriotic mentality all Americans can hope for now is that Nature will burn the house down and what’s left of humanity reboot to a civil order that decries capitalism in favor of human development for all.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:30 pm
1000+ spy agencies,NDAA and Homeland Security. The oligarchy planned for this while we prattled.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:31 pm
Sad to say this can’t be stopped. Even if you filled the streets in the cities, the news “coverage” of it wouldn’t be seen, as it would have to be disseminated through the same Corporate Machine that is being protested.
I mean, Kim Kardashian or Lindsey Lohan might announce their pregnancies or something on those days of protests, or something might wash up on a beach in Australia that is NOT part of a plane wreckage, and the story of Net Neutrality protests will be bumped. Keep the peasants ignorant. Rule #1 of an Oligarchy.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:31 pm
–>outraged that the Obama administration has strayed so far from early promises to protect the open internet.
How dumb can people be? How can these “activists” achieve anything if their heads are still embedded in their lower intestines?
May 10th, 2014 at 7:32 pm
So what is the action? where is the organization to get action from millions of people. It just doesn’t happen because you talk about it, talk about action, want action. You haven’t asked anything of any of us.
Who is going to spread the word nationally for this action? Who will organize getting a million people in a couple places. How do we get the attention of our media own country politicians, we cant expect the media of Amerika to pay attention.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:32 pm
Wait, did anyone else see that Tom Wheeler was a cable industry lobbyist? This reported 4-25-14 by Democracy Now!
Why do we think a mere petition of the ‘consumers’ will change his mind?
It is time to do something visible and to decry the ineffectiveness of the U.S. government to govern. In this case to actually regulate the internet utility on behalf of the people.
May 10th, 2014 at 7:59 pm
Yama#20, The duopoly is controlled by the same Top 0.01% oligarchs and the revolving door at the FCC during the Bush-Obama era has employed corporate-interest serving clones like Michael Powell, Julius Genachowski and now Tom Wheeler.
Lest not forget Meredith Baker who left the FCC two years early to accept a VP job at Comcast, lobbying on their behalf for a privatized internet, payola for preferential treatment at a higher cost to consumers no doubt.
May 10th, 2014 at 8:01 pm
Rey#23, Occupy was a real beginning, the first chance in decades for effective street activism in the U.S. – it was brutally repressed through fascist, militarized police violence. No qualifiers there. Please we MUST remember this and remind ourselves. Life drones on as if we have not witnessed the demise of our democracy, even ignoring this most brazen of televised heists.
There is no commons any longer, no public square, it is owned by owners and elites. In fact, they flaunted this violence in our faces, as a warning to all. Any indication of real popular strength by U.S. citizens will now be dealt with as ‘terrorism’. NDAA, etc will see to that.
To pretend otherwise is to ignore the very real and violent events of 2011-12 in capitals, small cities and campuses across the U.S.
May 10th, 2014 at 8:04 pm
This may sound like a dumb question, but nobody has explained what, in real world terms, this FCC action means. Give real examples.
Lets take just one website – http://www.Commondreams.org. Will it mean that Commondreams will load very slowly, while YouTube or other Google utilities will load fast? Will it mean that ISP’s will become like cable TV – only a certain list of URL’s or IP addresses will be accessible at all – or only if a pay an extra fee?