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Net neutrality advocates are planning two days of protest in Washington DC this month as they fight off plans to defang regulations meant to protect an open internet.
A coalition of activists, consumer groups and writers are calling on supporters to attend the next meeting of the Federal Communications Commission on 26 September in DC. The next day, the protest will move to Capitol Hill, where people will meet legislators to express their concerns about an FCC proposal to rewrite the rules governing the internet.
The FCC has received 22 million comments on "Restoring Internet Freedom", the regulator's proposal to dismantle net neutrality rules put in place in 2015. Opponents argue the rule changes, proposed by the FCC's Republican chairman Ajit Pai, will pave the way for a tiered internet where internet service providers (ISPs) will be free to pick and choose winners online by giving higher speeds to those they favor, or those willing or able to pay more.
The regulator has yet to process the comments, and is reviewing its proposals before a vote expected later this year.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Thursday September 21 2017, @07:36AM
You are not going to have "freedom, liberty, privacy, consumer rights, and human rights", at least as far as the internet goes, without net neutrality. It has nothing to do with what individual sites such as Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or whatever do or do not allow on their site, it has to do with allowing anyone to connect with Facebook or Twitter or YouTube or whatever if they so choose with the same ability they have to connect with any other site (allowing for any physical limitations of course). If you do not like what a site does to its visitors, you have the right to not use that site, not the right to force them to do things the way you like.