🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

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This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help.

Democrats are just one vote shy of restoring net neutrality

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thoughtremixer:

I haven’t done an update on Net Neutrality in a while as I was trying to find a reasonable “next step”, especially since it’s been out of the “news cycle” for a bit. Well, I have some good news.

According to the senator (minority leader Chuck Schumer) from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC. It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved

What’s stopping them now? They need just ONE more Republican and they have less than 30 days to do it.

So goes the next actionable step. You have to contact your senators and get them to suppose the Congressional Review of “the Open Internet Order of 2015″.

There are two ways to go about it.

1) Via 5calls.org using this script – https://5calls.org/issue/fcc-net-neutrality-cra

2) Via https://resist.bot/ – you can write to Congress using this site or Text RESIST to Resistbot on Telegram, Messenger, or to 50409 on SMS. By providing basic information, you can write your Senator to move forward.

Now, if you got a Democratic Senator, push them on to find that one Republican Senator. If you got a Republican Senator, encourage them to reconsider their stance on Net Neutrality.

We just need ONE Republican Senator and we have less than 30 days to do so.

CALL/WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

If the internet, the whole thing(Google, YouTube, Tumblr, the Dark Web, everything) had a god tier. What would it be? I say a Lord of Blood, but I really want to hear what you say

Probably can’t go with anything but a Muse of Light.

It’s essentially the Gnostic world of ideas or the Collective Unconcious made manifest physically, if you think about it. Jokes, stories, images, lies–we experience all of reality, vicariously, through this slim sheen of glass and light. The screens inform us, educate us, give us knowledge and power–the power to reach out, the power to be heard, the power to be seen.

That’s kind of what the internet is. It’s light–electricity, energy, power harnessed into a form that is able to showcase any thought any of us care to share, and give all of our eyes windows into that holds those forms.

It’s a terrifically powerful tool, one that determines and controls basically everything about the world we live in. It commands us, one could say–holds our attention even as it constantly directs us towards each other.

I’m not sure how well I’m getting across what I feel, but I think a lot about the internet, and the way it entangles us and connects us and drives us apart. Basically, I think the internet can be understood as an entity that commands us all, for all of our collective and individual benefit. So I’d say Muse of Light.

The Next Homestuck Will Not Be Made In Flash pt 1: TRACES

sam-keeper:

The next Homestuck will not be made in Flash.

Let’s talk about that.

Sam is, as usual, one of the most impressive writers charting the complicated, innovative, ephemeral snapshot of internet history that contextualized the rise of the wholly unique, passionately adored and reviled internet epic of a webcomic known as Homestuck. But this is important for more than just Homestuck, I think.

Today’s loss of net neutrality has proven that the internet is, as miraculous and omnipresent as it seems, simply a tool. One that is quite ephemeral and recent, fragile and temporary. It can be damaged. It can be lost.

And it doesn’t take the FCC to do so. Parts of the internet have already been being lost under simple lack of care for their maintenance–frameworks carelessly discarded, programming languages rendered incompatible with current software, etc.

Progress isn’t bad, but as with the need for video game preservation, there’s a serious need for us to begin to care about maintaining and remembering the history of the internet, so that we can contextualize where we are by understanding how we got here.

The history of hypercomics is important to me for exactly that reason.
We would do well to remember something like Homestuck simply would not exist without net neutrality, and neither would Undertale, or really most of the niche fandom entertainment a lot of us consume.

The fight to protect it’s underlying structure will continue, and with legal challenges already declared, the battle to protect it is far from lost.
But now is a really good time to stop taking it for granted, and start thinking seriously about how much we love and depend on this fragile web of strands that keep us all connected, and the marvels it can produce.

The internet is my home, and I’ll do all in my power to protect it.
That includes doing what I can to remind us we should also be taking care of it.
This article comes highly recommended, and I encourage folks to check it out.

The Next Homestuck Will Not Be Made In Flash pt 1: TRACES

captainsnoop:

The FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality, but I would like to reiterate to all of you that now is not the time to panic. It’s time to get angry and active, but not time to panic.

Clickbait sites are painting today as the definitive “end” of it all, but it’s not. This shit’s still got to go through the courts.

The FCC has tried to repeal net neutrality twice before, and both times it got repealed by the courts.

The voting public’s support for Net Neutrality is overwhelming. Last I checked, 83% of polled voters nationwide are in support of Net Neutrality staying.

Republican politicians and lawmakers are aware of this overwhelming support and have been voicing their support as well.

Doug Jones victory in Alabama was a wake-up call for Republican politicians, letting them know they are not invincible.

Join the millions of Americans making their voices heard. Contact your representatives. Call them. Email them. Tweet at them. Anything you can do helps. Use the links provided on this website:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

This is not a time for panic, it is a time for anger and for action. Let them know that this is not the end, only the beginning.