The FCC's Open Internet Rules (net neutrality rules) are vital and I urge you to protect them.


The repeal is anti-business and it is anti-consumer.
 
ISPs should not have the right to block websites, slow them down, give some sites an advantage over others, or split the Internet into "fast lanes" for companies that pay and "slow lanes" for the rest.

Now is not the time to let giant ISPs censor what we see and do online.

Despite what many say, censorship by ISPs is a serious problem. Comcast has throttled Netflix & provided a special Xbox only data cap exemption, AT&T blocked FaceTime & Skype, 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. As things stand ISPs must pay hefty fines when caught doing things like this and return to following the law. We know they will return to this behavior in force when given the opportunity to do so because they cross the line even with the laws we have in place. This hurts consumers and businesses large and small- the only people who benefit are the ISPs.

Courts have made clear that if the FCC ends Title II classification, the FCC must let ISPs offer "fast lanes" to websites for a fee.

But if some companies can pay our ISPs to have their content load faster, startups and small businesses that can't pay those fees won't be able to compete. You will kill the open marketplace that has enabled millions of small businesses and seriously endanger our economy and freedom-just to further enrich a handful of cable giants famous for sky-high prices and abysmal customer service. Companies with a stranglehold on the market so that often they are the only choice available to consumers. Rather than promote growth in our infrastructure, these companies have sued others in places like Chattanooga, TN when they attempted to build and expand their own networks.

This repeal would allow Internet providers will be able to impose a private 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, potentially blocking or redirecting content. 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.
 
I'm sending this to the FCC's open proceeding, but I worry that Chairman Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, has made his plans and will ignore me and millions of other Americans.

I sincerely hope he will not sell our economy and our freedom out to his former colleagues.