Millions of people have signed petitions and submitted comments to the FCC. This is your last chance. This website you’re reading—and pretty much every other website you’re going to interact with today—would not be here today if the FCC’s “fast lane” rules had been in place when we started.
In the 1980s, the cable companies breathlessly predicted a “500 channel universe” where you could choose from up to a whopping 500 entertainment feeds. Today, I read more than 500 RSS feeds. The right number of “channels” for entertainment, information, and community in the 21st century isn’t 500. It may be more than 5,000,000,000.
If you do one thing this year to make the world a better place, do this. There’s lots of important stuff out there — the situation in Syria and Iraq, global warming, mass surveillance. But without a free and fair and open Internet, we’ll never be able to organize to change it.
