Just after dark on Thursday night in Washington, Free Press parked a Jumbotron right outside the swanky hotel hosting a dinner and roast honoring FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
On Tuesday night the USA Freedom Act failed to move forward.
While this bill would have helped rein in key parts of the government’s surveillance programs, not all is lost.
On a recent Monday night in Brooklyn, five empty chairs stood on stage — one for each member of the Federal Communications Commission. A crowd had amassed in the room for a public hearing to send this message to the agency: Don’t hurt the open Internet.
We’re doubling our caffeine intake at Free Press these days thanks to the round-the-clock organizing we’re doing to save Net Neutrality and block the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger.
This week, tens of thousands of people — along with dozens of public interest organizations, media companies, and competitive telecom providers — spoke out against the kind of trouble we can expect if Comcast is allowed to merge with Time Warner Cable.
FCC votes on Net Neutrality and the proposed Comcast merger are looming — which makes this a crucial time to take action and mobilize everyone you know to join the fight.
