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Free Internet Setback? Net Neutrality Defenders Plan Pushback

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Monday, April 28, 2014   

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has signaled his intention to allow broadband Internet service providers such as Comcast or Time Warner Cable to charge content providers like ESPN or Netflix higher prices for faster download speeds. Internet freedom activists say creating the equivalent of "fast lanes" for some customers violates the principle of net neutrality, which also means net discrimination.

Josh Levy, Internet campaign director for the nonprofit group Free Press, calls it a "huge threat" to a free Internet.

"The only way to stop it is to organize and to channel everybody's anger and energy towards an effort to get the FCC to scrap those rules," he declared.

Levy says his group is urging people to sign petitions and call members of Congress.

"This is all about pressure focused on the FCC," he stated. "Whether that pressure's coming directly from the public or from Congress, it needs to happen and they need to hear it, loud and clear."

Andrew Rasiej, chairman of a nonprofit group supporting the technology community (NY Tech Meetup), says the day-long shutdown of the Internet two years ago in protest of proposed copyright legislation may or may not have to be repeated.

"The attack on the Internet back in 2012 was a stranglehold around the throat," he said. "The Internet is not going to die from a stranglehold; it's going to die from a thousand little cuts - the open Internet, that is - and this is a pretty deep gash."

Between now and May 15, when the Commission will formally act, a raft of public interest groups is plotting pushback efforts that include petitions, pressure on members of Congress and public protests.



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