<p dir="ltr">I subscribed to the below mailing list & have sent in comments stating my position on net neutrality to the FCC. I don't usually get political, but I see this as directly affecting those of us who use the intertubes differently than typical users.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I just wanted to be sure people o thus list knew that there is a comment period ending today. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Crashing the FCC's website does not mean that there is no need to add your own comments. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Evan Greer from FFTF" <<a href="mailto:info@list.fightforthefuture.org">info@list.fightforthefuture.org</a>><br>Date: Jul 15, 2014 12:53 PM<br>
Subject: Hah, this is crazy<br>To: <<a href="mailto:mrglenasmith@gmail.com">mrglenasmith@gmail.com</a>><br>Cc: <br><br type="attribution"><u></u>
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Just wanted to make sure you saw this. There's been such an overwhelming response to the FCC's net neutrality proceeding that their website that's supposed to receive comments has CRASHED. <br>
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Incredibly, Internet users are mobilizing and we already have a small group of volunteers and activists in Washington, DC<strong> who have stepped up to deliver comments to the FCC *by hand* before the deadline at midnight tonight and make sure that every single comment gets entered into the record.</strong><br>
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If you already added your voice, please tell others that there's still a few hours left to weigh in and keep the Internet free.<br>
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And please forward this to everyone you can right now, every single comment counts.<br>
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Yours in the battle for the net,<br>
-Evan at Fight for the Future<br>
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P.S. Last chance! If you haven't submitted your comment take action now: <strong><a href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h3/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank">http://battleforthenet.com</a></strong> <br>
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Dear Fight for the Future member,<br>
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</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">There's just 12 hours left. That’s how long we have to get pro-Net Neutrality comments submitted to the FCC in front of their first comment period deadline —and stop Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon and their ilk from slowing down and censoring the Internet for profit.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h4/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Deadline is tonight! Click here to submit your comments to the FCC right now.</span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We're in a battle to for the Internet as we know it.</span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline"> Net Neutrality guarantees all websites — start-ups, blogs, independent media, lolcats — an even playing field. It’s essentially the First Amendment of the Internet. It’s what has made it so revolutionary, and it gives all of us a voice. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">But the cable companies want to gut Net Neutrality to increase their profits. Without Net Neutrality, those corporations can kill websites by relegating them to slow lanes if they don’t pay fees — or if they just don’t like the content they contain. That threatens not only the Internet that we love, but the very foundations of a free society.<br>
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<strong>Take action here, it's easy: <a href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h5/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank">http://battleforthenet.com</a></strong> <br>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Cable companies are spending millions of lobbying dollars in an attempt to drown out the overwhelming cry of the public who are demanding that the FCC protect the Internet. Our best shot at winning this is to strike hard right now and flood the FCC with more comments than they’ve ever gotten before (even more than Janet Jackson). </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">We are so close to that goal already that if everyone reading this takes action, we’ll hit it by the end of the day.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><a href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h6/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">We made submitting an official comment to the FCC as easy as signing a petition. Click here to speak up for net neutrality before the July 15th deadline!</span></span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Many of you have already signed petitions to the FCC — and so have literally millions of others. That’s incredible — and it’s had a huge impact. But the ISP monopolies are pouring money into DC to try to buy the FCC's complicity. To win this, we all need to go one step further and submit formal comments into the FCC’s Net Neutrality proceeding.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">It’s really quick and easy, and carries way more weight than the usual petition signature does. You’ll be a formal part of the process.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h7/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Click here to submit a formal comment to the FCC before the end of this comment period — it’s over TOMORROW.</span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Just a few months ago, FCC was poised to undermine Net Neutrality all together. Because we all pushed back, now they’re considering adopting rules that would save it, and protect the web for the long term.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">But they’ll only do so if we speak out again, even louder. </span></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The cable companies have armies of lobbyists and public relations firms -- and since they own so much of the communications infrastructure, it's especially easy for them to push their propaganda. </span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:9pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">But we have millions of people on our side — and our only chance of beating the cable companies is if we all take a stand, together.</span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h8/N4TP83PuCSy3b099M34abzbOV4LkASVn-2Fr3erYm5lIKvQ7i2qaavT-2Bdy5ndKiuo3YaUwqIt30vhhjGRfUsiVIpOlQ4SXFT0lHsplizsxfSY-3D" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Click here to visit our brand new website and send the FCC a formal comment demanding support for Net Neutrality. It’ll only take a minute.</span></a></p>
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<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">With urgency and appreciation,</span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">The Fight for the Future team</span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">-Tiffiniy, Holmes, Evan, Kevin, Vasjen, Jessica, and Jeff</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">P.S. While it’s essential that we bombard the FCC with comments before the deadline tomorrow, we’re still going to have to keep the pressure on all summer, and ratchet it up even further when the decision time comes in the Fall. Want to help us win the battle for the net? </span><a style="text-decoration:none" href="http://list.fightforthefuture.org/mpss/c/oAA/ZgwNAA/7PyEpXYNTRevAsj6vAS6pQ/h9/Xxtw1HhmfjtZ771WJVHAYfbi0Z2bBvfnSDEQ1-2FYV5r0JvIp0mVEUg0qL-2FWrL9nq-2B6iCEQeT1HfZ7ed0erFTaxoLH3dQ6rilJ0zzyDGhF6BU-3D" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Please chip in $10 (or whatever you can afford) today.</span></a>
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