FYI., --- On Thu, 5/15/14, Tiffiniy Cheng <info@list.fightforthefuture.org> wrote:

From: Tiffiniy Cheng <info@list.fightforthefuture.org> Subject: BREAKING: FCC moves to kill net neutrality To: dottocomp@yahoo.com Date: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 4:28 PM

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The FCC just voted to move forward with a proposal to formally consider killing net neutrality. We now have 60 days to stop it.

Can you chip in to help launch an emergency campaign to save the free and open Internet? Click here

Hey there-- A few hours ago, the FCC took another big step towards killing net neutrality—voting to move forward with a plan to allow cable companies to give preferential treatment to big corporations and stick the rest of us on an Internet "slow lane." This, despite an unprecedented public backlash from members of Congress, Internet giants like Google and Netflix, and an Occupy-style encampment in front of FCC headquarters.

It's outrageous--but the fight is far from over. The next step is a 60-day period in which the public will be invited to submit public comments for or against the FCC’s plan.

This is our last, best chance to save the free and open Internet. Can you make a donation to help launch an emergency campaign to save net neutrality? Yes, I’ll make a donation to save net neutrality. There’s no question the FCC is feeling the heat. Insiders described the situation inside FCC headquarters as "chaos," and at the last minute before today’s vote they added an alternative option to reclassify the Internet as a public utility like telephones or electricity. Make no mistake, that happened because of all of us speaking out. The pressure we brought to bear last week made a huge difference. Now, the public will be asked to weigh in on both options—whether to kill net neutrality or save it by reclassifying the Internet as a utility. But FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is himself a former cable industry lobbyist, and based on today’s hearing it’s clear he intends to keep pushing to kill off the free and open Internet. So it’s up to us to turn up the pressure on the FCC and President Obama—who has in the past claimed to support net neutrality but appointed the very FCC chairman who’s now trying to repeal it. Step one is to generate a massive avalanche of public comments against the FCC’s plan to kill net neutrality during the 60-day public comment period coming up. Then, we’ll continue recruiting bigger and bigger websites to join the fight and alert their users of the risk to the free and open Internet. We’ve come a long way. The public is mobilized and angry. Now, if we can keep up the pressure we can win. Can you make a donation to help ramp up this emergency campaign? Yes, I’ll make a donation. Yours for the Internet,

Tiffiniy, Evan, Holmes and the whole Fight for the Future Team

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