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.
I’m a digital native: I grew up with video games, kids’ science sites and personal computers alongside my picture books, PlayMate toys and stuffed animals. Technology and media enriched my childhood, and I wouldn’t change a thing.
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.
Some members of Congress are still trying to mess with the Net Neutrality rules — in this case by embedding anti-open Internet provisions in an appropriations bill.
“Maybe every so often we can be on the side of the American people,” Rep. Jose Serrano said, “and not corporations.”
Those are fighting words — but unfortunately the House majority doesn’t seem to be heeding them.
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.
