Net neutrality why you should care about it

Without Net Neutrality, activists cannot fight oppression! There will be no social movements like the Movement for Black Lives? How will the next disruptive business, technology or company emerge if internet service providers only allow holders succeed?

Didn’t we win strong Net Neutrality rules?

After a long battle over the future of the internet, the FCC adopted strong Net Neutrality rules which depend on Title II of the Communications Act, giving internet users the strongest protections possible.

But since then several people tried their best to destroy Net Neutrality. And Chairman Pai, a previous Verizon lawyer is moving forward to destroy the open internet. Don’t you think he must be stopped?

The significance of Title II. Courts already rejected two earlier FCC attempts to trade Net Neutrality rules and told the agency to use proper legal foundation, i.e. Title II for any protection. In 2015, the FCC provided internet users strong rules for Net Neutrality and classified the providers of broadband as common carriers under Title II. Title II gives the FCC an authority it needs to make sure that companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon can’t block the interfere with web traffic. Title II preserves internet’s level playing field, allow people to share and find information about their choice.

But Chairman Pai wants to discard Title II and give the FCC to slight touch the Title I approach.

Pai wants to provide control of the internet to the companies which violated Net Neutrality for years before the FCC adopted its current rules in the year 2015. Title I fails to protect internet users like us.

Who is attacking Net Neutrality?

Big phone and cable companies and their influencers filed a suit against the Net Neutrality rules. Free Press got into it and placed an argument, defending the FCC and on June 14, 2016, a federal appeals the court to uphold the open-internet protections in every way. The ISPS are yet trying to challenge these rules in court.

Within the time, industry-funded Net Neutrality opponents in the Congress have done their best to deconstruct or undermine the rules. Legislators also introduced several deceptive bills and attached destroying riders to the must-pass government-funding bills.

There are millions of people who spoke in support of Net Neutrality got fired up and ready to fight back and you can join them in this universal pursuit.

Why is Net Neutrality so essential for communities of colour?

The open access of internet helped them to express their own stories and get together for racial and social justice. With net neutrality, people can summon thousands of people in the streets at a second’s notice, it’s because ISPs don’t block their messages or websites.

The mainstream media always misrepresented, ignored and harmed the people of color. The lack of various ownership is a primary reason why they got an away with stereotyping communities of color.

The open internet permits people of other vulnerable communities to bypass conventional media sentinels. Without Net Neutrality, ISPs can block speech and prevent protestor voices from speaking freely, online. Without Net Neutrality, people of color will lose a vital platform.