Randall Sanderson

Net Neutrlity is critical our free society

I use the internet to access blogs and alternative media content for the benefits of my civic & political participation, as well as lesson planning for my work. I also use voice over IP communication as an alternative to expensive international long distance telephone service. Doing away with Net Neutrality would be giving away this public good to a small handful of companies and severely harm the public interest. Out society would become an information and communications backwater in the global sea of info & ideas.

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.