Net Neutrality

Tomorrow the FCC will begin a process that could either kill or save Net Neutrality. We need to speak up now.

Net Neutrality is what stops powerful Internet corporations like Comcast and Verizon from singlehandedly killing websites by making them impossibly slow.

Time is of the essence. Will you click here to sign Demand Progress's petition to the FCC?

Without Net Neutrality, your local cable company could simply decide the website of a campaign you support -- and they don’t -- will start loading 0.001% as fast as the other campaign's website, because they can; or heavily disable a political organizing tool online that’s being used to topple dictatorships abroad, or even fighting bank bailouts at home.

Internet service providers could promote content that they own, and undermine content from their competitors.

They can shake down start-ups and artists and blogs for fees — and put them out of business if they don’t pay up.

When the FCC meets, we need to make sure they stand up for an Internet that's for everybody -- not just Comcast, Verizon, and the other mega-ISPs.

Add your name here to hold the FCC accountable.

Thanks.

-Demand Progress

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If you agree #netneutrality

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5/7/14, 6:50 PM RT if you agree—#NetNeutrality is the free speech issue of our time: afs.mn/noslowlane pic.twitter.com/71Vj5YQI9z

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GLAAD Committee Votes To Remove GLAAD President

UPDATE: Jarret Barrios Resigns - GLAAD Executive Committee Votes For Jarret Barrios To Resignation http://t.co/PxQczgQ #NN11lgbt #lgbt #HRC

Via multi-sources

But President Jarrett Barrios has refused to resign over the controversy surrounding that bizarre letter to the FCC about AT&T.

To make matters worse, GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios admitted this week that his office sent a letter to the FCC opposing net neutrality. GLAAD had previously been on record as supporting net neutrality.

Yes AT&T is one of companies that what to limit what you can and can’t access on the net, unless you paid higher internet fees. They believe that have the right to limit the speed of your connection, basically its internet censorship

Eliza Krigman reported recently that GLAAD was among a number of progressive groups with no obvious institutional interest in telecom issues who received money from AT&T and subsequently issued public statements supporting AT&T's merger with T-Mobile. Another letter was sent from GLAAD to the FCC opposing possible net neutrality rules. GLAAD later rescinded the letter, claiming it was sent in error. The issue had created an uproar in the gay blogosphere.

So how much did this endorsement cost? Well NAACP is on board too, but claim that the $1 million that they received in 2009 had nothing to do with. In 2010 NEA was given $75,000.

Politico reports:

"A source familiar with the board's deliberations told POLITICO that the executive committee voted in favor of removing president Jarrett Barrios, who refused to resign. Barrios may now take the issue to the full board of directors. A GLAAD spokesman declined to comment on the board's internal deliberations."

Pam’s House Blend has this to say,

"Basically lodging an untruthful defense that jeopardizes the integrity of GLAAD overall -- merited, in my opinion, the board consider that it was time for him to depart," said blogger and activist Pam Spaulding,

To know more about Net Neutrality Click here to visit it page on Wikipedia.

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