But there’s one more extremely important thing happening this week, and it’s in Europe.
The European Parliament is about to vote on net neutrality rules, and here’s the thing: the current draft rules are terrible – much weaker than the rules we won in the US this February.
Can you help? We have a chance to fix it:
Yes, I live in Europe and I’ll email the European parliament to defend net neutrality!
I don’t live in Europe, but I’m happy to write them anyway!
Whether you live in the EU or not, your voice matters. Part of our strategy is to make Members of
European Parliament feel sheer embarrassment at passing rules that are worse than the ones we passed in the US.
Plus, if European telcos can slow any website to crawl, or extort payments for special “zero rating” deals, that affects every one of us, wherever we live!
The good part about all of this is, if we’re successful at passing all the amendments we’re asking for, the EU rules will actually be pretty good. It’s a long shot. Europe’s ISPs have been working hard to corrupt this process, and it’s really common for EU-level decisions to be ignored by Europe’s press. But if we rally now, we can win decisively, and permanently, next week!
Take action now to protect Net Neutrality.
Thanks for helping keep the Internet open everywhere.
~Holmes
