The internet is important to the way we organise, communicate and keep in touch with friends and family, anything that skews it in favour of big business at the expense of the ordinary member of the population, has got to be stopped. It would be shaping the internet the same way our society is formed, the rich and powerful get he cream while you and I get shoved into the slow lane, a class divided internet is not acceptable.
Dear
Fight for the Future member,
Did
you hear about the massive protests in Hungary? The government there
proposed an Internet Tax, that would have charged ordinary internet
users exorbitant prices *per gigabite.*
Thousands
of people took to the streets in protest, holding their shining cell
phones aloft as a symbol of resistance to the unfair Internet Tax. In
response, the government announced they would lower the tax.
Instead
of accepting the compromise, even more people took to the streets
demanding unfettered, affordable access to the free and open web. And
they won. The government backed down and took the controversial tax
off the table.
It’s
election day here in the U.S. and we face a similar crisis.
Regardless of which party comes out on top today, the FCC is set to
annihilate net neutrality and open the floodgates for rampant
Internet censorship and abuse. This is the moment we’ve been
building for. In the last year, Fight for the Future has grown to
more than 1 million members! We are stronger than we’ve ever been
and we have the power to save net neutrality, but
signing petitions and making pho ne calls isn’t going to be enough.
This
Thursday, November 6th we’re organizing emergency protests across
the country, but we need more people to step up and help “anchor”
protests in their towns. Anchoring a protest is easy: it just means
you pick a time and location, and agree to be there and get as many
of your friends as possible to come. The protests themselves are
simple: we are asking people to gather in the evening at government
buildings and hold their glowing cell phones, laptops, and tablets
aloft to shine light on the growing corruption in DC and demand real
net neutrality.
We, and
several other groups with large email lists, will send an email to
our thousands of members in your area encouraging them to attend your
event.
You
can also reply to this email if you are able to help anchor a protest
and we’ll get in touch with you right away.
The
protests on Thursday will be the kickoff for a month of escalating
actions leading up to the FCC’s final decision, which we expect to
come in early December. We’ll be holding these vigils every
Thursday leading up until that point, so if you can help organize one
any time in the coming weeks, let us know! Just reply to this email,
we’ll see it.
We’ve
updated https://Battleforthenet.com
to
support these emergency protests.
Please
share the link far and wide and tell as many people as possible that
the fight for net neutrality is coming to a head and we need to start
something big right now.
-Evan
at Fight for the Future
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