Sign onto EFF's comment to the FCC on their net neutrality proposal
Dear colleagues, As many of you know, the FCC is currently engaging in the process of repealing its network neutrality rules and eliminating its Title II authority over broadband providers. I'm writing you today to ask you to sign on to a letter that EFF has prepared for filing, which explains several key engineering concepts that are vital to understanding how the Internet actually operates given that the FCC's own findings misinterpret how the Internet works. The letter stays away from legal arguments, and instead focuses on technical statements on the design and operation of the Internet. It is meant to establish a factual record for the FCC about the Internet and it is necessary because its initial findings in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking <https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-344614A1.pdf> are just wrong. For one, the FCC thinks that broadband Internet providers are the ones providing end users with the services of the entire Internet, from search engines to online newspapers to language translation tools. /*If you're willing to sign on and help, please email engineers-nn-comments@eff.org (off-list) by Friday, July 14 */and I will be happy to share a copy of the letter for you to review before you agree to sign on. The more signatures we can get, the more likely the FCC is to take notice as well as the courts should they move forward. All it takes is an email. Please help us make sure the FCC gets the facts from an engineer's standpoint. Thank you for your support, Erica Portnoy Staff Technologist Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Erica Portnoy