- Part 1: The FCC sabotaged its own public comments process.
- Congress needs to stop them from voting to kill net neutrality on December 14
- Part 2: Fight for the Future statement on Ajit Pai’s ridiculous speech
- Pai’s distortion of the facts here can only be described as Orwellian. He’s citing free speech as his reason for gutting free speech protections.
- Related: Special Project | How the Grinch Is Stealing the Internet
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Part 1: The FCC sabotaged its own public comments process.
Congress needs to stop them from voting to kill net neutrality on December 14.
Evan Greer, Fight for the Future
November 30, 2017 | Yesterday’s Pew Research study led to incorrect reports.
Yesterday, the Pew Research Group released a study that triggered a number of new reports about issues within the FCC’s net neutrality comment docket. The Pew study, unfortunately, contained a number of serious inaccuracies, and lacked needed context in a way that conflated legitimate grassroots advocacy and organic online outrage with malicious attempts to manipulate the FCC docket with fraud.
“The FCC sabotaged its own public comment process for the exact purpose of sowing the type of confusion that we’re seeing now,” said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, “They knowingly allowed malicious actors to abuse their system and submit enormous numbers of fraudulent comments using real people’s names and addresses without their permission, and they’ve refused to cooperate with investigations or transparency laws.”
Evan Greer, Campaign Director, Fight for the Future. She's been organizing hard-hitting campaigns for more than a decade and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and Huffington Post.
Fight for the Future is a digital rights group known for their role in organizing the largest online protests in history including the SOPA Blackout, the Internet Slowdown, and the July 12 Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality.
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Part 2: Fight for the Future statement on Ajit Pai’s ridiculous speech
Pai’s distortion of the facts here can only be described as Orwellian. He’s citing free speech as his reason for gutting free speech protections.
Evan Greer, Fight for the Future
November 29, 2017 | Yesterday, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai gave a speech lashing out at net neutrality supporters from web companies to celebrities. The speech comes amid the backdrop of massive and growing public backlash to Pai’s proposal to gut Title II net neutrality protections, with more than half a million phone calls to Congress through BattleForTheNet.com in the last week, and hundreds of protests planned across the country on December 7. Many have noted outrage coming from conservatives, libertarians, and members of Pai’s own party.
Fight for the Future campaign director Evan Greer issued the following statement in response to Pai’s comments.
Evan Greer, Campaign Director, Fight for the Future. She's been organizing hard-hitting campaigns for more than a decade and is a regular contributor to The Guardian and Huffington Post.
Fight for the Future is a digital rights group known for their role in organizing the largest online protests in history including the SOPA Blackout, the Internet Slowdown, and the July 12 Internet-Wide Day of Action for Net Neutrality.
Full story …
Related:
Special Project | How the Grinch Is Stealing the Internet, Compiled by David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Say Goodbye to Net Neutrality. Say Hello to the FCC's Trickle-Down Experiment; It's Official: The internet as we know it could die in a little over a month; The Grinch is Stealing the Internet; etc.; Dear FCC: We See Through Your Plan to Roll Back Real Net Neutrality; The FCC's Order Is Out, We've Read It, and Here's What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet; Seven Things You Can Do Right Now to Save the Internet
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