We won Comcast backs off from the merger

From Fight For The Future:

Big news: Comcast officially called it quits on merging with Time Warner! The mega-deal that would have given them control over more than half the country’s Internet users is dead.1

It was supposed to be the largest cable merger ever, combining the two largest, most hated cable companies into a single, massive political and economic monopoly. And now, thanks to hundreds of thousands of people like you taking action, that deal is not going to happen. This happened because of our power and ability to work together.

This win means we should be smart and take steps right now to protect the free and open Internet. We know Comcast is putting more energy into attacking net neutrality in Congress and in the courts, trying to get their way by throwing huge amounts of money anywhere they can.

That’s why we created Comcast Customer Help — a site where you can see which members of Congress are doing Comcast’s bidding and make them stop. Click here to check out the worst offenders.

2015 has been an amazing year for Internet users because we’ve made it a terrible year for Comcast's schemes to control the Internet. Together, we won net neutrality and put an end to their schemes to be a gatekeeper to what we see and do on the Internet. Today, we stopped them from merging with Time Warner and creating a single, hyper-powerful cable monopoly.

We beat a monopoly twice in one year. That never happens. We're in this interesting moment where because we've been smart, coordinated, and powerful, we're creating a domino of wins in our issue area. Everything little thing you do now can have an exponential effect for good.

That's why we can’t stop here. Comcast is trying to use special rules in Congress to overturn the new net neutrality rules — and given the millions of dollars they spend every year lobbying Congress, we can’t let up for a second.

Help us hold Comcast’s biggest Congressional allies accountable. Check out Comcast Customer Help now.

For the Internet,
Fight for the Future

P.S. This huge win is proof that the campaigns we’re running work -- and a reminder that when we come together as Internet users we wield an incredible amount of influence.

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Way to go,save the net

From Free Press Action Fund:

It took only two weeks.

In that brief span of time, more than 1 million people (including you!) called on the Federal Communications Commission to protect the open Internet after a federal court overturned its Net Neutrality rules.

As our way of saying thanks for all your support, we want to give you this free Net Neutrality sticker.

We know that getting the FCC to act won’t be easy, but here’s the deal: We need to convince just five people (the FCC commissioners) to make this a reality. And with more than 1 million people on our side — plus a growing number of organizations and companies — the odds are in our favor.

And the pressure is working. After we brought your signature to the FCC, Chairman Wheeler told the press, “A million people? That’s boffo.” (Yeah, we had to look up “boffo” too ... it means “extremely good or successful”).

Wheeler also had this to say: “One of the great things about what the Internet does and why it needs to stay open, it enables people to organize and express themselves.” So he’s listening — but this means the phone and cable companies are too.

To win, we’ll have to get even louder. We got a million people on our side in two weeks. Imagine what we could pull off in a month ...

We hope you’ll start by grabbing this free Net Neutrality sticker to show your love for the Internet to the world (and tell your friends — we can hook them up, too). Let’s plaster the nation with this simple message: Save the Internet.

Thanks for everything and keep up the good work!

You’re truly one in a million—

Free Press
freepress.net

P.S. Ever wondered what a million signatures look like? We made this video of the delivery so you could see.

P.P.S. Don't miss out on your very own Net Neutrality sticker.