The Internet Slowdown drove more than 2 million emails and nearly 300,000 calls to Congress. And so many pro-Net Neutrality comments were filed (722,364 to be exact) that the FCC's site broke (again).
The spinning wheel of death could become an all-too familiar sight if FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler ignores the major opposition to his plan to allow discrimination online. That’s why we helped launch the Internet Slowdown: to show what a world without Net Neutrality could look like.
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is going to have to overturn rocks to find support for his proposed rules that turn the Internet into a two-tiered system and destroy all hope of real Net Neutrality.
On Sept. 10, dozens of major tech companies and thousands of organizations are participating in the Internet Slowdown -- a glimpse of what the Internet could look like if we lose Net Neutrality.
Get ready to ditch your same-old lunch-hour routine on Sept. 15 — because on that day we need your help to fight FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to allow discrimination online.
Our friends at the Sunlight Foundation are some of the best data detectives around. And when they analyzed the record-breaking number of comments on FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Internet rules, they found that less than 1 percent oppose Net Neutrality.
There was no vacation for the Internet this summer. While many Americans slipped away to the beach, Internet users were busy defending the openness of a network that is now under siege.
If you’re reading this you probably already know that the fight for Net Neutrality is coming to a head. So here’s the deal: September will be epic, and it will all start with the Internet Slowdown.