Chris Roberts

Christopher Roberts Art

My name is Chris Roberts. I am a watercolor artist living and working in Salem, IL. I have a website http://www.chrisrobertsart.com. I pay a yearly fee to maintain my URL registration, a monthly fee to my website host, a yearly fee for my security certificate, and a monthly and yearly fee to accept credit card payments online. I have been slowly building this business for 10 years and have lost money every year. Christopher Roberts Art has been a labor of love in the truest sense. Visitors to my site can view images of my work and download videos. If Net Neutrality goes all of my work goes with it. If I have to pay huge fees so visitors with high speed internet service will not receive my content as if they had dial-up service, I will no longer be able to afford to maintain my website. Please don't let greed ruin this great thing we all enjoy. The internet is for the people....all people rich and poor!
Net Neutrality is essential to free speech, equal opportunity and economic innovation in America. Since the FCC removed this basic protection in 2005, the top executives of phone and cable companies have stated their intention to become the Internet's gatekeepers and to discriminate against Web sites that don't pay their added tolls.

This fundamental change would end the open Internet as we know it. It would damage my ability to connect with others, share information and participate in our 21st century democracy and economy. The FCC must ensure that broadband providers do not block, interfere with or discriminate against any lawful Internet traffic based on its ownership, source or destination.