Cat Signal! - We Won! The net neutrality rules we worked so hard for in the US will stand. Europe is deciding on the same issue right now, and what they decide will affect the open Internet for everyone else. That's why we're raising the cat signal!

Last week’s court victory was the final milestone. We won. The net neutrality rules we worked so hard for in the US will stand. [1]

But Europe is deciding on the same issue right now, and what they decide will affect the open Internet for everyone else. That's why we're raising the cat signal!

Watch and share this video on why net neutrality matters, and how to win it in Europe—just like we did in the US. Or, since we've only got 5 days until our EU Slowdown Action starts, help drive hundreds of thousands of comments from all over the world to EU’s FCC. [2]



We won in the US by organizing millions of people to stand up for the open Internet. And, now we have to do the same thing again. The Internet is global, and Europe is the largest economy in the world. How will our favorite sites, news outlets, & apps thrive and grow, if European ISPs can throw them into a slow-lane?

How will we ever challenge the power of tech giants like Google and Facebook, when European ISPs can subsidize them to appear free, while making competing sites cost more than ever?
How will we spread the latest freedom-enhancing tools like VPNs, TOR, p2p video streaming, and blockchain apps, when European ISPs can make them unusably slow for hundreds of millions of people?



This is a fight we all need to win, wherever we live. And we can do it by raising the cat signal to tell everyone we can, and then submitting our own comment. Can you help now?

(The big day of action will be on the 28th, but we’re asking gung-ho supporters and smaller sites to put our countdown widget on their sites right now!)If you’d like to learn more, watch and share this video on why net neutrality matters, and how to win it in Europe—just like we did in the US. And if you speak any languages other than English, help translate the video here.

Remember, the most important thing to do is join the action to alert your network AND submit your comment to BEREC—Europe’s version of the FCC. The 3.7 million comments we helped organize were crucial to winning net neutrality in the US. Comments matter tremendously in Europe too, and anyone can submit one, so please click here to submit your comment to BEREC right now.

Finally, if you live in Europe and could spend 5-10 hours per week or more volunteering until the July 18th deadline, that could be really helpful. Email me at holmes@fightforthefuture.org.

Thanks for everything you do!

Sincerely,

Holmes, Tiffiniy, Lizzy, Donny, Jeff, our designer Vasjen (who’s in bed with broken ribs right now, poor guy!) and the whole Fight for the Future team.

Sources:[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/technology/net-neutrality-fcc-appeals-court-ruling.html
[2] https://netzpolitik.org/2016/leak-eus-forthcoming-net-neutrality-rules-heres-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

[3] https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/eu-net-neutrality-rules-allow-isps-to-mark-entire-classes-of-internet-traffic-for-mass-throttling-87e0a660aa71#.zcbi2y1ve
[4] https://medium.com/@fightfortheftr/zero-rating-the-massive-loophole-that-could-undermine-net-neutrality-rules-in-the-eu-and-keep-the-aa7761c08e5c