Share This, Save Net Neutrality, Take a Well-Earned Nap

There’s nothing funny about the recent court decision that struck down the Net Neutrality rules.

Or is there?

“I love the Internet and the Internet loves me back,” said Stephen Colbert in a recent monologue. “Why else would it offer me so much sex? That’s why I was shocked last week when I heard this gossip about the Internet from its frenemy, television.”

That gossip, of course, referred to the ruling that could spell disaster for Internet users everywhere — that is, unless the Federal Communications Commission does the right thing and reclassifies broadband … which would allow it to adopt and enforce Net Neutrality rules that are about a zillion times stronger than the ones it had before.

There’s a lot of momentum in the campaign to save the Internet, thanks in part to last Thursday’s delivery of 1 million petitions urging the FCC to correct the agency’s past mistakes and reclassify broadband.

And clever folks like Colbert are using the Internet to save the Internet (in fact, Colbert also interviewed Columbia University scholar Tim Wu, who coined the term Net Neutrality — and noted that the basic motivation of Internet service providers is “we would like more money”).

So if you do nothing else today, share these four videos with your Internet-loving friends nationwide:

The Colbert Report: Monologue

The Colbert Report: Interview with Tim Wu

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