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Title    Washington DC Braces for Net Neutrality Protests Later This Month
Date    Wednesday September 20 2017, @02:06PM
Author    Fnord666
Topic   
from the brace-for-impact dept.
https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=17/09/20/1124211

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1937

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.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/15/washington-dc-net-neutrality-protests-restoring-internet-freedom


Original Submission

Links

  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "Net neutrality" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/net-neutrality
  3. "calling on supporters" - https://www.battleforthenet.com/dc/
  4. "22 million comments" - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/30/fcc-net-neutrality-vote-open-internet
  5. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=22331

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