The FCC is currently deciding whether to kill or save Net Neutrality.

Make no mistake, the recent push to end net neutrality is about privatizing and profiteering off a platform whose democratizing power rests in open access. Without it, Comcast and Verizon could singlehandedly slow down your access to websites from individuals, nonprofits and small businesses unless they pay higher fees that few can afford. Only big companies who can pay the tolls will be able to afford a fast lane, leaving the rest of us behind.

Our internet is under attack by corporate greed. Lets call on the @FCC to ensure companies large and small have equal access to the Internet. 

A free internet unfettered by corporate control is vital to building an economy where everyone gets a fair shot and everyone plays by the same rules. Weakening net neutrality would undoubtedly damage smaller organizations and nonprofits like UniteBlue while benefitting corporate interests with big money. It will increase utility costs to have a faster access fee, decreasing small business revenues badly needed for hiring workers. A “slow lane” will prove frustrating to small businesses.

Todd Park, the U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Assistant to the President, says “preserving an open Internet is vital not just to the free flow of information, but also to promoting innovation and economic productivity. Because of its openness, the Internet has allowed entrepreneurs -- with just a small amount of seed money or a modest grant -- to take their innovative ideas from the garage or the dorm room to every corner of the Earth, building companies, creating jobs, improving vital services, and fostering even more innovation along the way.”

We must come to terms with the ever increasing monopoly of telecom utilities and their avaricious usurping of “our commons” for large multinational corporations such as Verizon.

We have all felt the loss of a free media in corporate sponsored content on mainstream media cable television programs. Now is not the time to allow competing telecom services to influence what you can see on the internet. We can put a voice to our outrage by working together to #SaveOurNet.