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FCC Receives Feedback on Net Neutrality

July 17, 2007 on 9:45 am | In IdBlog, Spin | Add a Comment

Grant Gross at PC World reports that the FCC has closed the comment period for feedback on the topic of net neutrality. Apparently the communications commission has heard quite a bit from the internet rank and file since the comment period was opened in March.

Voters are still waiting hear what Congress will do to guarantee net neutrality, since the FCC is unlikely to rule against telecoms. Without a legislative directive, the FCC could easily allow the existing common carriage rules to be eroded in a series of quiet administrative decisions. If that happened, the net would be a very different place.

Congress needs to take action to ensure that we all have equal access to the net. Take a few minutes to write your representatives to let them know what you think. Save The Internet, one of many coalitions that has formed to defend net neutrality, has set up a handy-dandy Congressional spammer that makes it really easy to reach out and touch your Congress people. And isn’t that what the net is for?