• The Internet has always been governed by a regulatory regime based on principles of openness and non-discrimination. This approach has been integral to making the Internet the home to the most innovative and exciting new businesses and ideas., Internet companies have spent billions on new content and services that have transformed American life. This investment has fueled the American economy.
  • Large cable and telecommunications companies that own broadband networks in the U.S. are proposing to replace the open Internet with a system where the large providers can pick and choose which websites will operate on their new “closed” networks. In this world, special access charges will be levied on Internet content providers as well as consumers.
  • Content and services are what drive broadband Internet access adoption. Consumers who subscribe to broadband do so primarily in order to be able to use these innovative new services and to get access to interesting and information-rich content. Allowing the duopoly of cable companies and telecommunications companies to make high-speed Internet access a “toll road” will slow the adoption of broadband, limit Americans’ access to important information and tools, and damage the leading role that the United States plays in technological innovation.

The bad actors are at it again. Now the level playing field of the Internet is about to be replaced with the control of corporate influence. Help stop it now.

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