Nick Tennant

Don't give the internet to big business!

The FCC has already given away the public airwaves the to big business media monopolies, and should be ashamed for having done so. PLEASE don't do the same with the internet. The giant telecoms already got huge tax breaks for promising to build digital, fiber-optic networks. They took the money and ran, without fulfilling their promises. Now they want so suck money out of the best means of free expression ever devised. Don't give away the internet, too!

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.