This week more than 1,200 people from all across the country made a trip to their local congressional offices to deliver a message: Don't mess with the Internet.
Over the past few months we’ve been thinking about everything we learned in the fights over the fate of the Internet. Many of these lessons will be useful to other movements confronting deep-pocketed foes — and overwhelming odds.
You fought the cable companies and you won. But now Congress is launching another nasty sneak attack on Net Neutrality — right before the FCC’s historic rules are set to go into effect.
With a little over a month to go before the FCC’s historic Net Neutrality rules take effect, the cable and phone companies and their lobbyists are working every angle they can think of to destroy the open Internet.
Late Monday the first lawsuits against the FCC’s new Net Neutrality rules were filed.
Open Internet opponents had long threatened to sue the FCC over any protections it passed.
Now that the FCC’s historic Net Neutrality rules are out in the world, the real drama in Congress is about to get underway. In fact, anti-Net Neutrality mania is taking over Capitol Hill for the rest of the month.
