Tomorrow is the day.

[RUn2it]

In case anyone hasn't been following this there's legislation being voted on tomorrow to bring regulation of the internet under the FCC as being a public utility. Here is a little info with a link to a petition to Congress to stop the regulation.

Huge breaking news. We're one day away from the FCC vote on President Obama's secret 332-page plan to turn the Internet into a public utility, and for the first time one of the DEMOCRATS on the commission, Mignon Clyburn, is saying the plan goes too far.¹

Stop Obama's Regulatory Attack on the Internet!

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While it is still highly likely she will vote for the plan, her public concerns make clear how extraordinarily radical Obama's plan is. If the FCC approves it Thursday anyway, the future of the free-market Internet will depend on Congress mustering the will to stand up to the Obama administration and its rubber-stamps at the FCC.

Please click here right now to send your letters to Congress urging them to stop the FCC. If you already have written to Congress, please share the contact page with your friends.

Public utility regulation will depress private investment by as much as 20 percent in the first five years according to a credible bipartisan analysis.²

Taxpayers will almost certainly be forced to pay the difference via rapidly growing universal service taxes, which are likely to be applied to Internet bills for the first time.³

And then calls to regulate this publicly-funded network in the “public interest” will begin.

Michael Copps, a former FCC commissioner who is now a board member at Free Press, a leading supporter of Obama’s plan, said this a few years ago:

“Can you tell me that minority and women’s voices on the Internet are getting through to major audiences—really being heard—like the big corporate sites? Should we just take it for granted that the small ‘d’ democratic potential of new information technologies will somehow be magically realized without questions being raised about how they are designed and managed?”⁴

It’s easy to see how questions like those will lead to answers that involve government controlling content to promote a political agenda. It's chilling.

Please click here right now to send your letters to Congress urging them to stop the FCC. If you already have, please share the contact page with your friends.

Thanks for all you do,

--Phil

Sources:

1. Julian Hattem, "Democratic FCC commissioner balks at net neutrality rules," The Hill. February 24, 2015.
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/233626-fcc-dem-wants-last-minute-changes-to-net-neutrality-rules

2. Kevin A. Hassett and Robert J. Shapiro, "The Impact of Title II Regulation of Internet Providers On Their Capital Investments," November 2014.
http://www.sonecon.com/docs/studies/Impact_of_Title_II_Reg_on_Investment-Hassett-Shapiro-Nov-14-2014.pdf

3. Harold Furchtgott-Roth, "FCC Plans Stealth Internet Tax Increase," Forbes, October 12, 2014.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haroldfurchtgottroth/2014/10/12/fcc-plans-stealth-internet-tax-increase/

4. Michael Copps, "Remarks to the Joint Center for Political and Ecnomic Studies, March 3, 2010.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296655A1.pdf

[nas6car]

funny I am reading this at the same time world news is talking about it. this really sucks.