A free and unfettered internet is essential. While many U.S. citizens, including myself, have taken our limitless access to communication, entertainment, and information for granted, I hold the internet to be the one of the most important resources available to modern humans. Ending net neutrality would undermine what we have come to understand in the age of information as behaving democratically.

It would open the door to arbitrary pricing structures and data restrictions that would adversely affect young individuals and poor families alike. It would give telecom conglomerates total control over internet regulation and pricing.

The principles that our nation was founded upon were the result of a grand collaboration of enlightenment thinkers empowered by the new technologies of their age, allowing them to spread and access ideas like never before. 

Ending net neutrality would unduly impede our ability to communicate and share ideas. To sabotage our modern capability to engage with each other instantly through the internet would be, allegorically speaking, an act nothing short of informational despotism that history's greatest minds have opposed for centuries.

I urge you to stop the FCC's plan to end net neutrality *before* the FCC's December 14th vote.

Blocking & throttling by ISPs is a serious problem. Comcast has throttled Netflix, AT&T blocked FaceTime, Time Warner Cable throttled the popular game League of Legends, and Verizon admitted it will introduce fast lanes for sites that pay-and slow lanes for everyone else-if the FCC lifts the rules. This hurts consumers and businesses large and small.

If some companies can pay ISPs to have their content load faster, startups and small businesses that can't pay those fees won't be able to compete. This will kill the open marketplace that has enabled millions of small businesses and created America’s 5 most valuable companies. Without strong net neutrality protections, Internet providers will effectively be able to impose a tax on every sector of the American economy.

Moreover, under Chairman Pai's plan, ISPs will be able to make it more difficult to access political speech that they don't like. They'll be able to charge fees for website delivery that would make it harder for blogs, nonprofits, artists, and others who can't pay up to have their voices heard.

If the FCC passes their current order, every Internet user and business in this country will be unprotected from abuse by Internet providers, and the consequences will be dire. Please publicly support net neutrality protections by denouncing the FCC's current plan. Do whatever you can to stop Chairman Pai, to ensure that businesses and Internet users remain protected.

Thank you!