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Digital rights are human rights. There's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core.
May 16, 2018 18 tweets 7 min read
THREAD: At 3pm, the Senate will vote on a resolution to block the FCC’s #NetNeutrality repeal and restore basic protections that prevent companies like Comcast and AT&T from censoring online content, slowing down websites and apps, and charging expensive new fees. Our work for Internet freedom will continue long after today, but the outcome of this vote will affect the battlefield that we are fighting on for years to come.
Apr 19, 2018 9 tweets 3 min read
THREAD: There have been a lot of inaccurate reports that the FCC's repeal of #NetNeutrality will officially go into effect next week on April 23rd. That's not true. It's a bit more complicated than that. Ready? Here we go: Its understandable many journos are confused by this. I's legitimately confusing. The FCC order said it would go into effect 60 days after publication in the Federal Register, which would have been April 23rd. But, it still has to be approved by the Office of Management & Budget
Dec 14, 2017 7 tweets 5 min read
🚨STRATEGY UPDATE🚨
The @FCC is voting to gut #NetNeutrality – but Team Internet has a plan.

We can overturn today’s #FCC vote: We *MUST* convince Congress to use their Congressional Review Act (CRA) powers to #StopTheFCC... ...but it's going to take URGENT action ☎️🙌🚨 via BattleForTheNet.com

There is no question: it will take work from Internet users everywhere.

We’ll have to apply a ton of pressure to Congress in creative ways. With the momentum we have right now we’re not far off...