Net Neutrality Needs Your Support Before the FCC Takes it Away

If you think Net Neutrality doesn’t matter, just wait until you lose it.

It’s a sorry state of affairs to say we’ve gotten to the point in this country that we have to fight for Net Neutrality. But there are many sorry state of affairs in the country, and this is only one of many horrible things that are happening. We’ve already lost our right to internet privacy when Trump overturned protections put in place by the Obama administration to restrict the right of internet service providers to collect and sell our personal information. Thanks to Trump, ISPs can now track you and sell your data without your permission. All in the name of increasing corporate profits.

If you haven’t heard of Net Neutrality, it’s probably because you’ve been used to enjoying a free internet, where information and content is shared without restrictions. Wikipedia explains Net Neutrality as “the principle that Internet service providers should enable access to all content and applications regardless of the source, and without favoring or blocking particular products or websites.” Plus, you probably figured, hey, didn’t the White House take care of that for us a while back?

Nothing in life is secure. Certainly not in today’s environment. The FCC is holding a hearing on May 18th to overturn Obama’s 2015 Open Internet Order, which secured Net Neutrality for all Americans. We don’t want big corporations controlling the Internet, do we? No, we don’t. An overturn of this order would affect our freedom of speech, restrict innovation, and lead to unfair pricing practices.

Well, there is something the average guy can do.

John Oliver’s HBO show, Last Week Tonight, bought the website gofccyourself.com and created a short-cut to the page where consumers can post their comments and express an opinion to the FCC about losing Net Neutrality. Without this link, you would get lost in the shuffle of twisted and contorted pages to find the page you seek. You’d need to click on this link, go to this page, enter this code, tie your shoes together, spin around and howl at the moon to find the page.

After you land on gofccyourself.com, you simply click on “express” and a short form will appear. It asks for your name, which after you type it you will need to hit “enter” on your keyboard for it to stick. You cannot tab or use the mouse. The rest of the form asks for an email and an address. Apparently many anti-Net Neutrality bots have been spamming the site, placing bogus comments, so it’s more important than ever the site receive honest-to-goodness comments from Americans opposed to losing Net Neutrality.

Tell the FCC what you think about keeping the internet free and open, without restrictions. This is my public service announcement for today. Back to Sacramento real estate.