Petition the FCC

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After Chairman Wheeler receiving a 1 million name petition on net neutrality and spouting about thats why the internet is so great and why it should remain free then just going "Screw you all" there is another petition on Watchdog.net so lets try to get the entire world to sign this time.

http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/4565?l=MOgvI0hJ53A

Get all your friends family workmates passing strangers to sign.

Cheers

Mike

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No

 

/s

 

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I doubt a second petition is going to get anything done other than another brush to the side. However, the FCC website does have a contact page for Wheeler so we might as well flood whatever inbox its heading to.

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Not sure if this is the same petition as the above but people might as well sign both right?

http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/tellfcc/ 

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"clicktivism" is 99.9% pointless, It's Zeros and Ones on in a database on a computer. Cat-videos on YouTube have a bigger influence on society.

If you want to get something changed, you need leverage.

  • there's political leverage: if your cause convinces enough people you can bully politicians: "Want to get re-elected ?, then do the thing !" -> Ultra HARD
  • change the societal norms by grass-route movements, by influencing the thinking pattern of the people you will be able to facilitate great change, but it takes generations to get results -> Dead SLOW
  • economical leverage, if you can punish actors financially, you'll win by default. You'll need to provide an alternative to satisfy the need, because most people won't sustain a boycott. -> HARD

There is a doable and relatively quick(1-3yrs) solution for this , although it's messy and won't help everybody. (it'll only work in cities)

Install mesh-networking software (cjdns for example) on the people's Laptops, Smart-phones & volunteer nodes to interconnect people with each other, then collectively buy bandwidth and grant internet access via payed vpn credentials.

Since infrastructure cost is extremely low & customers are starved, the internet bandwidth seller collective will be able to grow exponentially and also sustain large profit margins, allowing them to get big quickly enough to outrun the legal-wrench in the mechanism "strategy" that the established ISPs have been using. Once big enough they can do their own lobby work to get access to the wired infrastructure.

I think New York is doing doing something like this https://wiki.projectmeshnet.org/New_York_City_Meshnet

 

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Here's a white house petition.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-tom-wheeler-his-position-fcc-chairman/58HFrZ7t