May 17, 2018

Sarah at FFTF News Bulletin | May 17, 2018 | ~ BREAKING: Senate votes to save net neutrality ~ | Blogger: [๐Ÿ˜ŠThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Victory & How to Stop ISP Throttling! How the end of Net Neutrality will affect IoT. What does U.S. vote mean for the world? Breaking up the Obama-era๐Ÿ“ก] ... Yeeeah! *BOOM*... IMPORTANT NOTE:! ".. The US Senate voted 52 to 47 for net neutrality. Now, the question is: Will the House support net neutrality, or will it -- or President Donald Trump -- shovel dirt on net neutrality's grave? .." ... Be Thankful To God For the Privilege (even if NSA and all countries intelligence services are listen in on your channel 24/7) ... People might not yet understand, what enormous effect it has to the rest of the world. The vote to roll back net neutrality rules in the U.S. could have major global implications.. (Top 10 Internet-censored countries:) - Take China, for example, where the notion of an open internet has been effectively killed by the country's vast censorship apparatus. Not to mention North Korea. North Korea - all websites are under government control. About 4% of the population has Internet. Internet available only at government controlled "access points:". Cuba - Internet available only at government controlled "access points." Activity online is monitored through IP blocking, keyword filtering and browsing history checking. Only pro-government users may upload content. Burma - Authorities filter e-mails and block access to sites of groups that expose human rights violations or disagree with the government. Saudi Arabia - around 400,000 sites have been blocked. Iran - bloggers must register at the Ministry of Art and Culture. Syria - bloggers who "jeopardize national unity" are arrested. Tunisia - Tunisian Internet service providers must report to the government the IP addresses and personal information of all bloggers. Vietnam - the Communist Party requires Yahoo, Google and Microsoft to divulge data on all bloggers who use their platforms. Turkmenistan - The only Internet service provider is the government ... ๐Ÿ’ญ PS: The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years - it will literally affect every 'free internet country' on the planet ... |

BREAKING: Net Neutrality Gets MAJOR Senate Victory




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We won! The U.S. Senate just voted to overturn the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality!

Even better, your work helped win the votes of TWO undecided senators who swung our way at the last minute, giving us a 52-47 margin and huge momentum. That’s game-changing.

Now the fight moves to the House of Representatives—and with the FCC scheduled to end net neutrality on June 11th unless Congress stops them, the stakes are higher than ever.

Comcast, Verizon, and the rest of Big Cable thought sure they could beat us with all the millions they spent on lobbyists and campaign contributions.

But for months, the Internet has been on fire. You called. You rallied. You protested. You did whatever it took. You didn’t give up. And today, the Senate passed the resolution overruling Ajit Pai and restoring net neutrality in a historic upset!
The key to winning in the Senate was mobilizing so much grassroots pressure that it was impossible for undecided senators to ignore us. And that will be even more true in the House of Representatives, where every member is already looking ahead to November and trying to figure out how to keep their seats in what is predicted to be an incredibly close election.

Now, we’ll be honest: We put everything we have into the effort to win in the Senate. And it’s a good thing we did, because this vote was SO close, and we easily could have lost. But after going all-out with billboards, newspaper ads, and flooding the Senate with phone calls, our campaign budgets are significantly drained.

No one thought we’d get this far, but this is just the first step. Now we need to pass the same resolution in the House of Representatives.

Will you chip in to help replenish our campaign budgets for the next round of the Battle for the Net?

Yes, I’ll donate monthly to keep up the fight to save net neutrality!

No, but I can make a one-time contribution.

For the Internet,

Sarah at Fight for the Future