Email to FCC commissioners on eave of killing net neutrality

Dear Commissioners,

Although I’m not a US citizen, I’ve lived in your country and have convinced at least one of your number to get broadband.

In many ways the FCC’s responsibilities – if not legal, then cultural, actual – are international in scope. Therefore I’m dismayed by news that your organization, led especially by Mr. Wheeler, seems poised to abandon the idea that internet traffic should be free of interference and discrimination by its carriers. In other words, you – an organization ostensibly with the public interest at heart – seem keen on throwing away the idea of net neutrality.

Don’t do it. We all – the entire world – deserver better.

Especially since the technology that is embodied in the open internet is so valuable. Some people are just now getting it, and plenty have yet to have access to it at all. Don’t set this precedent. Change your minds, and help us all have equal access to information. Business will get along fine. The rest of us will thank you.

Sincerely,

Ryan Frederick