Senator Bernie Sanders has set up a page to make it easy to submit a comment to the FCC regarding their proposed "hand the internet to the wealthy" rule.
Click the link, and go comment!
If you need some ideas, here's my submission:
Given the criticality of internet access to communications and to the general economy of the US, internet providers should be classified as common carriers.The current proposed rule change is nothing more than an attempt to create two separate internets: a superhighway traveled by large corporate clients; and a rutted, potholed dirt road traveled by businesses and individuals too small to afford the "real" internet.
According to the Small Business Administration, firms with fewer than 500 workers account for 99.7 percent of employment in the US. Those businesses all rely on a neutral internet in order to compete in the market. Bifurcating the internet in favor of large corporate entities with deep pockets will devastate the economy.
It's time to end this threat to the nation's economy - reclassify internet providers as common carriers, like the utilities they are.