# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Save Net Neutrality: Don Young
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Oct, 2017 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The Fight to Save Net Neutrality
What Is Net Neutrality?
Net Neutrality means that broadband providers can’t block, edit or discriminate against the information we share and access online, like the sites we visit or the applications we use. It ensures that the companies carrying our internet traffic can’t step in and interfere with our communications.
Net Neutrality isn’t a new concept. This principle paved the way for the internet and its many innovations. As Sir Tim Berners-Lee put it, “When I invented the Web, I didn’t have to ask anyone’s permission.”
Right Now Net Neutrality Is Under Threat
In 2015, the Federal Communications Commission voted to protect Net Neutrality — marking one of the biggest victories for the public interest in the agency’s history.
 
The vote was the culmination of a decade-plus power struggle between internet users and the big broadband providers. After a remarkable series of escalating protests, online and off, the agency reclassified high-speed internet access under Title II of the Communications Act — which is the only way to protect real Net Neutrality.
The FCC rules prohibit these providers from blocking, interfering with or throttling online content. The rules also ban paid-prioritization schemes that would allow broadband providers to carve the internet into fast and slow lanes — which would harm everyone except the handful of companies that could afford to pay for speedier access to their content.
Title II offers the strongest foundation for protections against these harmful practices, and the surest footing for the rules to withstand legal challenges. In fact, in 2016 a federal appeals court rejected an industry challenge to the rules and upheld them in all respects.
But now FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, wants to destroy these rules and let companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon control the internet.
What’s at Stake?
The open internet has enabled small businesses, artists, political organizers, communities of color and independent voices of all kinds to thrive. All of that would change without real Net Neutrality.
Could you imagine giving companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon the freedom to block certain websites — or charge extra fees to view others? That would be preposterous, but this is exactly the kind of power companies like the big broadband providers want over the internet.
These companies want to determine which sites, services and apps internet users can access, and how well they work. And they want to prioritize their own content above everyone else’s.
In fact, before the current Net Neutrality rules were adopted, there were numerous instances of ISPs violating Net Neutrality to harm alternatives to their own offerings (including Comcast blocking file-sharing application BitTorrent, AT&T blocking voice and video-chat apps like Skype or FaceTime, and Verizon blocking mobile payment and mobile hotspot apps).
Without Net Neutrality, these providers — all of which are also in the pay-TV and telephone business — could favor their own shows, movies and messaging services while blocking or slowing down services like Netflix or Messenger. They could prioritize traffic from companies like Apple and Google but keep startups in the slow lane. They could charge their own customers extra just for visiting certain websites or using certain applications.
These companies could also violate internet users’ free-speech rights, including any political speech they disagree with. This would particularly harm people of color and other vulnerable communities who have used the open internet to challenge media stereotypes, tell their own stories and mobilize for change.
Net Neutrality is essential to everything we need in our society — from educational and economic opportunities to political organizing and dissent. If we lose it we will lose the most democratic communications platform we’ve ever known.
Take Action
Members of Congress need to protect their constituents by standing up for the open internet. That means supporting the existing Title II Net Neutrality protections and rejecting any attempts to weaken these rules either at the FCC or via new legislation.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/anchorage/save-net-neutrality-don-young/2017173165196647
- **Event Categories**: Entertainment
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## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Anchorage
- **state**: AK
- **country**: Estados Unidos
- **location**: Congressman Don Young's Office 471 W 36 Ave Ste 201 Anchorage AK 99503
- **lat**: 61.1821614
- **long**: -149.8836461
- **full address**: Congressman Don Young's Office 471 W 36 Ave Ste 201 Anchorage AK 99503, Anchorage, Estados Unidos

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Save Net Neutrality: Don Young being held?
  - **A:** Save Net Neutrality: Don Young takes place on Fri, 20 Oct, 2017 at 03:30 pm to Fri, 20 Oct, 2017 at 03:30 pm at Congressman Don Young's Office 471 W 36 Ave Ste 201 Anchorage AK 99503, Anchorage, Estados Unidos.

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