I was tempted to not write this at all, but screw it, I’m going with it.
The amount of people in real life who don’t know about the FCC’s plan for Net Neutrality scares me.
We recently had a seminar in school about the differences between socio-economic classes. We were required to write down two different questions to ask the class to potentially start a debate or conversation, as a seminar goes. One of my questions was, “how will the repeal of Net Neutrality affect us? How will it affect the lower class?”
Out of the 20-someodd people in my classroom, only one person knew what this event even is. I had to define it for the rest of the class because nobody even knew what Net Neutrality was, much less its impending demise.
Another case was over Thanksgiving. Now, it was kind of my fault for bringing up the yearly-political-debate at the table, but I just made a little salty joke when I was talking to my brother, saying something like, “man, I hope none of my memes get taken away next month, amirite?” Although my brother knew what I was joking about, nobody else did.
My classmates don’t know what the repeal will do to them. My parents don’t know what the repeal will do to them. It seems like hardly anyone outside of tumblr has any idea what the repeal will do to them.
We need to speak up now. People are hardly given any information on this at all if they don’t have tumblr or don’t follow news accounts on Twitter.
Keep calling your Senators. Keep emailing them. Keep doing what everyone has urged you to do on this website, but tell people about it as well. Get a special announcement out at your school. Put up little posters around. Chat about it when you have free time with someone. Anything.
Not enough people know about this, despite the fact that this repeal is going to destroy their bills. For the love of god, tell. People. About. This.
