[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Important news: Republicans launch attack on Net Neutrality]

[agnes at mcn.org]

      Call Congress: Republicans are trying to kill the Internet

   Republicans in Congress are launching a desperate, last-ditch effort to
   stop the FCC from voting on Net Neutrality rules. Two key committees just
   held hearings in an effort to gin up support for the legislation, and a
   vote on the bill could come soon – please call committee members and
   tell them to let the FCC do its job and oppose the Republicans' bill.

   Click below for a sample script and the number to call:

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   Dear Agnes,

   We're winning the fight to protect the open Internet.

   But, with the FCC just weeks away from voting on Net Neutrality rules,
   Republicans in Congress are making a desperate, last-ditch effort to stop
   the vote by proposing watered-down legislation that would strip the FCC of
   much of its authority to regulate the Internet.^1

   The House and Senate just held hearings to push this dangerous, backdoor
   attack on Net Neutrality, and a vote on the legislation could come soon.
   We have to go all out to stop it.

   Our friends at Battle for the Net built a call tool that will connect you
   with members of the key committees in the House and Senate so that you can
   urge them not to meddle with the FCC.

   [2]Call key members of Congress: Don't support Republican legislation to
   block real Net Neutrality. Click here to make a call.

   This cynical attempt to derail the FCC is being led by Republican Senator
   John Thune and Representative Fred Upton, the new leaders of the key
   congressional committees that oversee the Internet.

   Thune and Upton are pitching their legislation as a reasonable
   "compromise," but they are the same people who are on the record calling
   Net Neutrality rules “unjustified” and a “solution in search of a
   problem."^2

   Unless they've both had dramatic changes of heart it's quite clear that
   the legislation is a stealth effort to force the FCC to delay its vote and
   stop open Internet advocates like us from scoring an all-out win when the
   FCC votes on new rules in February – not a sincere effort to protect
   the web.

   There's simply no reason to stake the future of the Internet on a messy
   legislative fight in a Congress dominated by Republicans, where telecom
   companies have enormous power to influence the content of a final bill,
   when the FCC already has all the authority it needs to guarantee Net
   Neutrality.

   We've come too far in this fight to be stopped by members of Congress
   cutting a terrible, 11th hour deal. Please call the committee members
   right now and tell them to let the FCC do its job.

   [3]Call key members of Congress: Don't support Republican legislation to
   block real Net Neutrality. Click here to make a call.

   Thank you for fighting for Net Neutrality.

   Zack Malitz, Campaign Manager
   [4]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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   1. Jon Brodkin, [6]" Republicans in Congress make plan to preempt FCC on
   net neutrality," Ars Technica, January 15, 2015
   2. Craig Aaron, [7]"Don't Let Congress (and Comcast) Derail Real Net
   Neutrality," Huffington Post, January 15, 2015

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