  | | President Obama needs to hear from you. Make a call today. | President Obama's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently proposed adopting rules that will end Net Neutrality and kill the Internet as we know it. With the fate of the Internet at stake, we can't let President Obama sit on the sidelines. Make a call today.
Click below for a sample script and the number to call: | Dear melissa,
The president's newly appointed FCC Chair Tom Wheeler recently proposed rules that would allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to divide the Internet into fast lanes for wealthy corporations and slow lanes for the rest of us.
If successful, this would amount to nothing less than the corporate takeover of the Internet and the death of Net Neutrality.
But because of a massive public backlash, Chairman Wheeler was forced to keep the door open for the change we really need -- reclassifying the Internet as a public utility, which is the only way to establish Net Neutrality regulations with teeth.
As a candidate, President Obama promised to be a strong defender of Net Neutrality. With President Obama's FCC Chair leading the charge to kill the Internet, the president has a responsibility not to sit on the sidelines and watch it happen.
Call President Obama today. Tell him: Don't kill the Internet.
In response to Chairman Wheeler's proposed rules that would kill Net Neutrality, the White House issued a weak statement distancing the president from the FCC's decision-making and stating that: "[The White House] will be watching closely as the process moves forward in hopes that the final rule stays true to the spirit of Net Neutrality."
Sitting back and hoping everything turns out is not nearly good enough. This is President Obama's chairman and the president's FCC. When he campaigned for the presidency he promised to protect a free and open Internet. And that promise is now being undermined by an FCC Chair he appointed -- someone who now seems more interested in doing the bidding of a few large corporations than working in the public interest.
It's time for the president to come off the sidelines and stand up for Internet users.
Net Neutrality is important because the Internet is an essential service Americans rely on to conduct our most basic daily affairs, from applying for a job to finding a home, to running a small business. And our right to communicate freely and be heard lies at the heart of our ability to participate equally in our democracy.
A string of federal court cases has made it abundantly clear that the FCC has the power to enforce strong Net Neutrality rules, but only if the FCC goes through the process of undoing a terrible Bush-era decision to deregulate broadband instead of treating it like the vital public utility it has become.
President Obama can't be a strong defender of Net Neutrality, as he pledged to be, if he continues to sit on the sidelines. With this anti-Internet proposal moving through the approval process at the FCC -- and the door open to the alternative path of reclassifying the Internet as a public utility -- the time is now for the president to weigh in.
Call President Obama today. Tell him: Don't kill the Internet. Click the link below for the number to call and a sample script:
http://act.credoaction.com/go/4390?t=7&akid=11004.7388420.iaMQuV
Thank you for speaking out to defend Internet equality.
Becky Bond, Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets
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