#Summary

##But...

##Regarding Foreigners

##An Example

Summary

But...

Regarding Foreigners

An Example

Absolutely encourage people to vote to continue the "common carrier" enforcement of ISP's. We do it for telephone companies, we should do it for all communication companies. (Including TV, radio, Internet, etc.)

Regarding Foreigners

If you don't think that'll happen, and you don't think our ISP's will abuse this if it comes back, you really haven't paid attention to the U.S. for the last few months and I feel like you have a significantly larger amount of faith in my government than I do. As a foreigner you all have the same responsibility in this manner that we do: speak up. If you say nothing you've effectively aligned with the idea that we don't need net-neutrality, and you've said it's O.K. for carriers to prioritize traffic for any reason, even arbitrary ones like "we don't like your nation because you won't give us a good deal on _____, so no more Internet for you."

#Summary

Absolutely encourage people to vote to continue the "common carrier" enforcement of ISP's. We do it for telephone companies, we should do it for all communication companies. (Including TV, radio, Internet, etc.)

##But...

##Regarding Foreigners

If you don't think that'll happen, and you don't think our ISP's will abuse this if it comes back, you really haven't paid attention to the U.S. for the last few months and I feel like you have a significantly larger amount of faith in my government than I do. As a foreigner you all have the same responsibility in this manner that we do: speak up. If you say nothing you've effectively aligned with the idea that we don't need net-neutrality, and you've said it's O.K. for carriers to prioritize traffic for any reason, even arbitrary ones like "we don't like your nation because you [won't give us a good deal on _____ | support person _____ whom we don't | just aren't a nation we like], so no more Internet for you."

So as a foreigner, the specific form Shog9 linked to won't let you fill it out and send a letter to the FCC as you need a United States address, but the FCC has a contact page, so you can still tell them to suck-it (figuratively speaking). You can also view official comments on this proceeding and add your own, simply click "+ New Filing" or "+ Express". (You can even upload documents if you click "+ New Filing".) And if for some reason that link quits working, search for proceeding "17-108", that's the "Restoring Internet Freedom" proposal to eliminate net-neutrality.

##An Example

Regarding Foreigners

Some might say that "foreigners" (non-U.S. persons) might not have a say in this, but as I said above this is one of the few times I encourage them to. The scope of this is too large. If the FCC pushes and has net-neutrality redacted, we're literally talking about the possibility for the U.S. ISP's (if they really wanted to) to start de-prioritizing international traffic. That's the actual scope of this issue. So every site that you use as a non-U.S. citizen (including Canadian, Central and Latin American, etc.) can be crippled or shut down for you.

If you don't think that'll happen, and you don't think our ISP's will abuse this if it comes back, you really haven't paid attention to the U.S. for the last few months and I feel like you have a significantly larger amount of faith in my government than I do. As a foreigner you all have the same responsibility in this manner that we do: speak up. If you say nothing you've effectively aligned with the idea that we don't need net-neutrality, and you've said it's O.K. for carriers to prioritize traffic for any reason, even arbitrary ones like "we don't like your nation because you won't give us a good deal on _____, so no more Internet for you."