See our latest infographic, "The FCC vs. The Revolving Door Open Internet," a detailed look at how the revolving door FCC affected the free and open Internet. The infographic is below.
The FCC has extended the deadline for people to leave comments on their site to Friday 18th July. Add your voice and show the bureaucrats of the FCC that the will of the people to preserve the open Internet is stronger than the revolving door.
In May 2014, the FCC has made a historic decision to advance the rules that will kill the "Open Internet". Despite a public outcry nationally, Tom Wheeler, current chairman of the FCC, and its democratic commissioners betrayed rhetoric Net Neutrality, and instead approved the review of the rules that would create a "two-tiered Internet" that
- stifle innovation by startups with less funding at a competitive disadvantage because they can not afford to pay for faster access
- increased costs because businesses will pass along new costs for "premium traffic" consumers
- diminish privacy because ISPs snoop on user traffic so they can prioritize the "premium" traffic " regular "traffic
Although this decision is disturbing and paints a gloomy picture of the future of the Internet, it does not come as a surprise because of the long history of the FCC 's employ former lobbyists and executives cable and telecommunications. "Revolving door" phenomenon FCC has taken major conflicts of interest in the past, adopted controversial changes to media ownership rules in 03, the Comcast -. NBC merger in 2011, and now this latest debacle Net Neutrality
FCC asked users to weigh on net neutrality by posting in the comments section on the FCC website, http: // www .fcc.gov / comments. There were more than 800,000 comments, the overwhelming number that even caused the crash site on July 15. Continue to leave comments on July 18 and the FCC pressure to protect the Internet Open. Make your voice heard!
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