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REAKING: One of net neutrality’s biggest foes in Congress just introduced terrible legislation to permanently undermine the free and open Internet.[1]
Now it’s more urgent than ever. Contact your lawmakers to demand they oppose bogus legislation and vote for a Resolution of Disapproval to reverse the FCC’s decision and restore net neutrality.
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This new legislation is an insult to Internet users’ intelligence. It was introduced by Marsha Blackburn, who has raked in more than $600,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom industry and is widely seen as a shill for Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T.[2]
She’s the same Representative who sponsored a bill to kill Internet privacy rules earlier this year, allowing the companies who have given her hundreds of thousands of dollars to monitor our online habits and sell our personal information to advertisers.[3]
Blackburn’s bill is part of a bait and switch that the ISPs have been preparing for months. They’re exploiting the crisis they’ve created with the FCC vote in an attempt to ram through bad legislation that’s branded as a “compromise” but amounts to a trojan horse.
This is not just a “weak” net neutrality bill. It’s a poison pill. Blackburn’s bill, if passed, would permanently decimate net neutrality protections for the foreseeable future.
Fortunately, dozens of lawmakers are already calling for Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval, which means we can sidestep Blackburn’s bogus bill and force a simple up or down vote on net neutrality that puts every member of Congress on the record.
We’ve updated BattleForTheNet.com to make it easy to contact your lawmakers and demand they vote for the CRA to save net neutrality by reversing the FCC’s decision.
TAKE ACTION
The next phase of the fight is going to be the most important, and also the most dangerous. It’s critical that we all call this for what it is: a fake bill to end net neutrality for good. We can help fight misinformation by making sure all of our friends and family understand that bad net neutrality legislation is a huge threat right now, and it’s more important than ever to pay attention to the details.
We don’t need Marsha Blackburn’s bill that would let Cable companies carve up the web into fast lanes and slow lanes, crushing competition, creativity, free speech, and innovation.
What we need is for lawmakers to support the CRA to completely overturn the FCC vote and restore the rules that never should have been taken away in the first place.
Go here to contact your lawmakers right now, and share this link everywhere: www.battleforthenet.com
Never surrender,
-Evan at Fight for the Future
P.S. We’re pulling out all the stops to overturn the FCC vote and save net neutrality. Will you chip in to help make our work possible?
P.P.S. Read the full bill here: blackburn.house.gov/uploadedfi…
 
Footnotes:
[1] The Verge: www.theverge.com/2017/12/19/16…
[2] The Daily Beast: www.thedailybeast.com/this-pol…
[3] Wired: www.wired.com/2017/05/telco-ba…
 
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