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Right now, it looks like the FCC may be deciding to advance a proposal that "looks" like it saves net neutrality but still lets Cable companies control and censor the Internet. As we speak, Cable is spending millions of dollars lobbying to make sure that comes true.
https://www.callthefcc.com/
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Stop Comcast and the other cable companies from getting the keys to the kingdom! (campaign) (Original Post)
Veilex
Oct 2014
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lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)1. The Cables and the Telecomms own half of Washington, DC.
They write the laws, FCC rubber stamps their approval, and our elected officials make it the law of the land.
Veilex
(1,555 posts)2. True on all counts.
They need to be stopped. We need to make it so politically painful for them to not adhere to the people's wishes that giving in to the likes of Comcast becomes a non option.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)3. Welcomed in by corporate Democrats as well as Republicans.
Bankrolled by broadband donors, house democrat/republican lobby FCC against net neutrality
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024966773
Net neutrality foes outspent backers by over three to one and that's just so far
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024965396
Bill Moyers blisters Obama for abandoning his net neutrality promises
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017189841
Why did President Obama appoint Tom Wheeler, Cable Crony, to head the FCC?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024521140
FCC Incest: Meet the Cable Cronies Who Control Net Neutrality's Future
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024986869
The murder of net neutrality
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024903646
Obama's FCC Destroying Net Neutrality: FCC Chairmans Many Excuses
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/fcc_chairman_tom_wheeler_s_lame_excuses_for_his_net_neutrality_proposal.2.html