Ready for the weekend? Me, too. I’m going to get outside, do a little reading, hang out with some friends – oh, and pour my heart out to the FCC.

The FCC extended the public comment period on their Net Neutrality rule-making until Monday, April 26th, which means we have one weekend left to flood the docket with support for both an open Internet and the reclassification of broadband. We need to use every opportunity we have to tell the agency to protect the Internet.

With the recent court decision that put Net Neutrality and the national broadband plan in jeopardy, the FCC needs to reassert its authority over the Internet – and the agency needs to hear from thousands of us that we want them to do it. Already, nearly 100,000 people have done so. Have you?

The threats to the Internet are real. We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried. This week, cable provider RCN agreed to settle a lawsuit for degrading users’ access to Internet services. And this comes just a week after Windstream, a DSL provider with more than one million customers, admitted to hijacking people’s Google searches.

These are just the most recent violations we know about. Most U.S. Internet providers are already using technology that’s designed to filter and spy on content in order to extract additional profits from your Internet traffic.

These intrusions on our online freedom won’t stop until the FCC makes Net Neutrality the rule, and now, in order to do that, the agency must reclassify broadband as a “telecommunications” service under Title II of the Communications Act.

So tell them today that you support Net Neutrality and reclassification. In fact, if you do it today, you can just enjoy your weekend knowing you’ve already taken action to protect the Internet.