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The open Internet takes the stand

Telecom giants are trying ​to destroy a historic ban on Internet slow lanes by going through the courts –​ and a crucial deadline for us to stop them is rapidly approaching. Under threat are the pro-Internet “Net Neutrality” rules that a broad-based coalition of civil rights and Internet freedom groups won earlier this year. If Telecom giants are successful, ​they could dismantle our victory and force our favorite websites into an Internet slow lane– ruining the web and raising prices for you and your family in the process.

Telecom giants are trying ​to destroy a historic ban on Internet slow lanes by going through the courts –​ and a crucial deadline for us to stop them is rapidly approaching.

Under threat are the pro-Internet “Net Neutrality” rules that a broad-based coalition of civil rights and Internet freedom groups won earlier this year. If Telecom giants are successful, ​they could dismantle our victory and force our favorite websites into an Internet slow lane– ruining the web and raising prices for you and your family in the process.

But we have a plan to fight back. We need Internet users like you to endorse a hard-hitting legal brief that ensures the court knows just how many Americans care about the ban on slow lanes.​

Add your voice now, and help stop Big Telecom’s Internet slow lane plan before the final deadline. We have to get as many signatures on it as possible by Sunday night, so the brief can be filed first thing Monday morning.

That’s why your OpenMedia team is helping to amplify your voice at this crucial moment. This legal briefing is huge. Losing Net Neutrality would hurt everyone other than deep-pocketed telecom conglomerates who could afford expensive new “prioritization” fees.

That’s why a number of groups are defending our historic victory in court. They’re fighting with everything they’ve got to stop Big Telecom’s army of lawyers, but they need your help to make sure they show up in the courtroom with a critical mass behind them.  

The good news is that our campaign partners at Demand Progress have made it easy. You don’t need to be a lawyer to defend one of the most historic pro-Internet victories of all time. Click here to add your name to the Net Neutrality "People's Brief" that open Internet advocates will be filing in just a few days.

We worked together for over a year to make sure we won the strongest, most enforceable rules possible (AKA: Title II). And by all accounts, we nailed it. But we can’t throw that all away now.

Our campaign partners will be filing the challenge soon, so sign on right now before the final deadline on Sunday night. 



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