I want the FCC to stop their attempt to revoke net neutrality. Revoking the current net neutrality regulations will harm consumers, deter economic growth, and enable incumbent telecommunication companies to use their monopolistic positions to impede competition.

Previous examples of ISP abuses that were stopped by net neutrality include:

2013-2014: Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon all throttled Netflix traffic until Netflix agreed to pay the carriers. This deterred competition. Specifically, each of the provided offered their own streaming video service. By slowing down Netflix, they gave an advantage to their own service. This practice was stopped by the 2015 FCC ruling.

2011-2013: AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon blocked Google Wallet because it competed against their own payment system. This practice was stopped when the FCC began an investigation.

2010: Windstream DSL hijacked user-search queries. Later, in 2011, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) found that several small ISPs were doing something similar.

2007-2009: AT&T forced Apple to block Skype and other competing VoIP services from iPhones.

2005-2007: Comcast blocked peer-to-peer BitTorrent and Gnutella. The FCC ruled this as illegal in 2008.

This list is nowhere near complete. Basically, if the carrier is the only option for the user to connect to the Internet, then the carrier controls what the user can access. And if access is geared toward a competing online service or a competing advertiser, then the carrier has the technical ability to alter the data. They can force users to only see sponsored ads or only access services that the carrier prefers -- and many have already done this.

Since announcing Ajit Pai's plan to revoke net neutrality, Comcast has updated their terms of service -- they removed the part about not interfering with network traffic. Comcast appears to be ready to block certain peer-to-peer services and enable fast-lane paid prioritization as soon as possible. Comcast also spent over $400,000 this year on anti-competition advertisements in Fort Collins, Colorado when the city voted to permit municipal high speed Internet.

According to independent researchers, 98.5% of unique comments received by the FCC support the current rules. A second research group found that the majority of remaining (anti net neutrality) comments are submitted by impersonators. There are also reports that the FCC has intentionally interfered with an investigation into comment fraud. The investigation will not be complete before the FCC votes on revoking net neutrality regulations on December 14.

Ignoring public comments shows a biased motivation that will be challenged in court. Enabling companies to re-assert their monopolistic positions in order to impede competition will not help consumers, startups, or anyone except the large monopolies. Revoking net neutrality will harm consumers and weaken our nation.