Comprehensive info. From 2014 when we narrowly avoided losing net neutrality, but they just keep trying, don't they? 2017 version of this video would be almost identical.

Much links and fun times below:

We've stopped things like this before! You have power if you bother to take it.

Video script and better formatted version of the links below can be found on my blog: http://vihart.com/net-neutrality-in-t...

Politicians love when you personally contact them! It is a fact. If you're not in the US, make sure your local government considers this state of affairs an embarrassment for the US, not something to model your own rules on.

List of FCC commissioners and their twitters, emails, blogs, instagrams, etc: http://www.fcc.gov/leadership

Don't know how to contact your representative? Find out who they are and let them know you're watching them! http://whoismyrepresentative.com/


List of all proceedings available for comment: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/hotdocket/list


Learn more about all this stuffs:

Court case ruling cable internet as an "information service" rather than "telecommunications service": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National...
Communications act of 1934, describing common carriers under title II: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...
Telecommunications act of 1996, including Title V, the CDA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomm...
Communications Decency Act, part of the Telecommunications act of 1996, which protected ISPs from liability: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...

The FCC's Open Internet Order 2010:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Open...
Verizon had the above overturned in 2014 as not applying to non-common carriers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_...)

A couple other attempts at net neutrality things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communic...

Data on internet speed from study "The Cost of Connectivity": http://oti.newamerica.net/publication...

Terms to know
Antitrust law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_S...
Cartel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartel
Common carrier: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_c...
DMCA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
FCC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_...
Game theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory
ISP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP
Monopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
Net neutrality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neut...
Oligopoly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
Telecommunication: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomm...

Also see these other videos on the topic:
BlinkPopShift:    • Net Neutrality is Dead, Long Live Net...  
CGPGrey:    • Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality  
Extra Credits:    • Net Neutrality - What a Closed Intern...  
Hank Green:    • Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Deb...  


Thankyou Emily Eifler and Christopher Hart for their advice!

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