Protect Our Internet is a campaign of Popular Resistance. The mission of Protect Our Internet is to keep the Internet vibrant, free and equal.

In 2014, Popular Resistance was part of a mass movement of people and Internet businesses who worked together to push the FCC to put rules in place that reclassified the Internet as a common carrier. This means that all content is created equally and telecoms can’t limit access to content.

Think of what the Internet would become if the Giant Telecoms had this power – they would control which media messages would dominate, which businesses would have access to customers and what information would be available to searchers.

Reclassification of the Internet as a common carrier in 2015 gave the FCC the legal power to protect net neutrality from legal challenges by the Telecoms. It is protecting our freedom to use the Internet!

But ever since then, even though their profits are strong, the Telecoms have been continuing to challenge net neutrality through the courts and by lobbying Congress. Now the new chair of the FCC, Ajit Pai, has announced that he wants to take the classification of the Internet as a common carrier away by the end of this summer!