sent 3/17/16 fast action NOW PLEASE, and PLEASE TAKE VIRAL, because: BIG CABLE found a new way to violate Net Neutrality

fast action NOW PLEASE, and PLEASE TAKE VIRAL, because: BIG CABLE found a new way to violate Net Neutrality

There is a message from David Segal of Demand Progress below.  I have cleaned the links in his message (link copy HERE for fast action) so that clicking them will not inform anyone that you know me. :-)

PLEASE ACT: As David Segal says below, it need not take long.  I wrote my own comment text*, but you need not take the time to do that, so you can just CLICK fill in your name and address and CLICK A BUTTON.

Please at least do that minimum and please then take this viral--BECAUSE it has been proven that you can actually help sometimes.  Let us hope that this is one of those times.  We can but try, and this action takes hardly any time.

Larry
* If you are interested, this is what I wrote just now:
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"Your Honors:

"The Internet has essentially become a national and international service that demands government regulation for protection of the public against misuse by private interests.  In that context, it seems clear to me, since government is involved, that freedom of speech rules apply. 

"Please rule against allowing carriers to discriminate between and among web servers for their own political purposes for the detriment of everyone.

"Thank you for your kind attention.

"Very truly yours,

"Larry A. Scott

"Larry A. Scott, Esq.
"[address]"

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Big Cable found a new way to violate Net Neutrality
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:51:12 +0000
From: David Segal, DemandProgress.org <info@demandprogress.org>
Reply-To: info@demandprogress.org
To: Larry A. Scott Esq.


Larry,
Comcast, T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T are all acting like they’re above the law.
Each one of them is breaking the Net Neutrality rules the FCC passed last year, daring the FCC to challenge them.
This is the first major test of how the FCC will implement the Net Neutrality rules. We need to make sure the FCC knows we're watching and sets the precedent that violating Net Neutrality has real consequences.
Since we won at the FCC, and since we keep winning in Congress, Comcast and friends have a new strategy: just break the rules.12
Here’s how it works:
When we won, the FCC never banned “zero rating”—the practice where Internet providers exempt some sites or services from their own monthly limits (“data caps”). Instead, the FCC said they’d look at zero rating “case by case.”
Meanwhile, data caps are still allowed. And ISPs can dramatically slow down your Internet after you hit the cap. See where this is going?
All ISPs have to do is keep our data caps low, and then exempt some sites from the cap. “Special” sites. The ones that pay them $$$.
If you can, please try to personalize your complaint. But if you’re busy, just use the pre-written letter.
Independent policy experts are telling us that the FCC is making up its mind on this now, and that they’re only hearing from… (guess who?) Comcast, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon.
Submitting takes just a few seconds, and the FCC needs to hear from as many of us as possible! We’ll also deliver it to your members of Congress, since if they’re really on your side, they’ll ask the FCC to act too, which helps us a lot.
Thanks for speaking out.
Sincerely,
David and the Demand Progress team

Sources:
1. Seifert, Dan, Verizon launches its own sponsored data program, The Verge, January 19, 2016.
2. Finley, Klint, Comcast may have found a major net neutrality loophole, Wired, November 20, 2015.

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