From Kevin Zeese:
The FCC proposed ending one of the great things about the Internet — equal access to all. The chairman proposed a tiered system based on fees. We have been camping out at the FCC since last Wednesday (despite having a lot on our plates, we dropped everything to respond to this threat to free speech in the 21st Century).
Today TIME reported” “The FCC’s eighth floor executive office has been thrown into chaos amid a mounting backlash that shut down its phone lines as a growing number of Open Internet advocates camp out in front of their office.” Get ready, the next few days are going to be interesting!
It looks like something that was a done deal is now undone. We will be escalating in the next few days to increase the pressure on the FCC to act in the public interest; and not the interest of Comcast.
Below is a fun picture below from today. I’m on the left, Margaret is on the right.
Here is an article summarizing the impact of our camp after one week:
Amazing the unpredictable impact when you put your bodies on the line . . .
KZ
EDITOR’S NOTE: Zeese has long been one of the nation’s foremost political activists. In recent years he has been joined in is efforts by his partner in life, Margaret Flowers, MD, a remarkable person on her own. They have played a major role with the Occupy movement. Zeese aided Ralph Nader in his presidential campaigns.
We are proud to have partnered with Zeese and Mike Gray, RIP, and man others in opposing the War on Drugs for almost a quarter of a century. More on that under Memoirs soon.
There is not now nor has there ever been a problem with people accessing the internet although some want people to believe the opposite. The debate is over bandwidth and those who are hogging the bandwidth (Netflix etc.) should pay for it.
EDITOR: There hasn’t been a problem for the individual because it was the same cost to all comers. That doesn’t mean it won’t be a problem when it is sold off to the highest bidder.