Thou shalt not tilt the internet unfairly in one direction or another. By eliminating Net Neutrality, unfairness will rule our searches. It would be

unAmcrican to un-lcvel this important playing field. I am not fooled by the rhetoric of the FCC Chairman. Don't give the internet as a gift to

huge telecom corporations! Save it instead.

-Pauicia McRae Baley, Las Vegas, NV

Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. This is important to me as an individual user, as well as a small-business user of the internet There is no

way that I could afford to pay the fees that the big companies could pay to access the "fast lanes." This would not be fair, and would put me and millions of others like me at a competitive disadvantage. Respect and uphold true net neutrality!

-David Basford, Saint James, MO

Regulate the internet like a utility!

-Jordan Lewis, Portland, OR

A freenet allows us to realize the true promises of our constitution.

-Nettie McGee, Shiocton, WI

Net neutrality is a core element of democracy and critical to an infom1ed citizenry.

-Jeffrey Galvin, Rockville, MD

Everyone deserves equal access to and use of the internet! I have spent years paying Time Warner for "faster" internet service that turns out to

be unreliable and slow! Forcing anyone to pay additional fees when basic service is this horrible is unethical! Forcing companies like Netflix

or Amazon to pay higher prices for their use of internet will ultimately lead to rising costs for consumers to use their service! The FCC's

proposed Internet rules are unnecessary and unfair!

-Annamaria Barczak, New York, NY

The economic reality is that there is simply no viable incentive for cable companies and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to abide by Net

Neutrality principles. The competitive reality is that these ISPs have coordinated a playing field where effective monopolies or duopolies are

created, resulting in a demonstrably worse product for end consumers. The legislative reality is that we must recla-;sify ISPs as common

carriers under Title ll of the Telecom Act, in order to protect that which has made the Internet economy so successful: that are links truly are

equal. Failure to do this will guarantee the exodus of technological talent, investment and innovation from the United States.

-Ryan Cunningham, Houston, TX

If ever there were a case of foxes guarding hen-houses, this is it. When I signed up for my two domain names, I was not knowingly signing

up for blatant discrimination against small businesses. When I resorted to signing up with a major telecom for an allegedly high-speed internet

connection, I did not expect to be competing with other megacorporations for access to bandwidth on the backbone. When I placed my meager

content on two web sites, I expected customers to be able to actually view and read those web sites without going out for a cup of coffee while

the content was downloading. I was promised net neutrality and I expect and demand exactly that. My government must see to it that I get that neutrality ... nothing else, and certainly nothing less!

-Stephen Bates, Houston, TX

There no good reasons to charge for the internet. We do not pay for "air" TV and this is the same thing.

-Erwin J Crawford, Longwood, FL

Free Press

Attention: Tom Wheeler, FCC Chairman It is real simple Mr. Wheeler; use the pubLic utility option. Just declare the net a common carrier,

which is what it is. The Internet is important to me, because as a senior who has limited transportation and means, it allows me to interact with

others, conduct personal business, and troubleshoot; it's my lifeline. The internet is also my medium for researching a number of issues,

publishing commentaries, and political activism, especially dissent. I need to know that there will not be barriers to entry for the new ideas and

services that I or others (aspiring college grads for example) may want lo bring to the marketplace or for the betterment of our world. If ISP

subscribers have an easier time loading websites of existing companies than my new innovative product or ideas I may want to present, there's

no way that I will be able to compete or succeed in those issues and things important to me and others I network with. However, despite all of

the above I am deeply concerned that Mr. Wheeler, having once been a huge powerbrokcr/ lobbyist for the very industry he is supposedly a

watchdog for now, seriously bothers me. ll has been said the Koch Brothers refer to ordinary poor folks as "useful idiots." I'm beginning to

realize the folks with power in this nation take a lot of ordinary people to be fools, these days. It is truly sad to witness the insanity committed

in our name, with our tax dollars, and always without our consent. I also believe President Obama appointed Mr. Wheeler to the FCC as a

matter of repayment for the cooperation that was extended by telecom giants in assisting the NSA with the retrieval of everyone's meta-data in

this country and well beyond. Or worse, consider the recent case of the Bahamas, where the NSA has captured everyone's cell phone

communications and content in that Island Nation. While these are my foremost concerns, along with millions of other Americans, I doubt Mr.

Wheeler (and those he is still lobbing for) really give a damn about what us "useful idiots" truly feel or think. Given the FCC's revolving door

tradition, which is especially prevalent between government and industry these days, and noticeably evident in the career paths of FCC's most

recent chairmen, creates even more alarm. These mega monstrosities want the internet to look like today's cable television. You are forced into

packages full of junk content, with overpriced tolls for every little item, even for old cinema, which has catapulted fees out into the stratosphere

and service in the toilet. "We the People "have made the internet what it is today through market forces. What also evolved was a

communications system that brings us the ability to stand up for democracy, especially in one of America's darkest periods. As one internet

user or "useful idiot" put it a few years ago, " ... The intemel brings us the ability to send each other pictures, socialize and not to mention that

it's the greatest tool for activism this planet has ever seen." It is this latter point that concerns Mr. Wheeler and those of his mindset the most. That's what makes us "useful idiots" a force to be reckoned with, especially when we are all finally on the same page. It is real simple Mr.

Wheeler; use the public utility option. Just declare the net a common carrier, which is what it is.

-Lara DeLuz, Orangevale, CA

I think that the FCC should reclassify ISPs as common carriers. They are providing an essential service to millions of Americans who rely on

their service for their jobs and livelihood.

-Eric Baudais, Tulsa, OK

Net NeutraLity is the great equalizer in this century. Now that we have all -- rich and poor - become dependent upon, and immeshed in,

electronic communication, it is necessary that we all have prompt access at all times to whatever help the net can provide, and which we have

come to expect. There is no alternative source.

-Mary Matthews, Ann Arbor, MI

The Internet available to all is the greatest contribution to democracy and justice since it was launched. We must maintain Net NeutraLity. Paul

Burks United Methodist Minister Retired Editor of Sequoia: News of Church and World and Earthlight Magazine of Ecology and SpirituaLity

-Paul Burks, San Rafael, CA

Allowing monopolistic Internet providers free reign to censor, slow down, or block websites while requiring higher fees for faster service and

more content is not only a gross infringement of the right to access information, it would effectively cripple our economic and technological

progress. Furthermore, kowtowing to corporate interests would jeopardize regulation and consumer protection, and only serves to squeeze

money out of the Internet without actually improving it.

-Zachary Anderson, Gowanda, NY

Free P~ss

The Internet has become too important for so many people that allowing any large corporation, government , or any persons the ability to

decide how it will be unfairly used can not be allowed. If a small business can not have financially fair access to the same connection speed as

a large corporation it creates a completely unfai r advantage in favor of the large corporation. Potential customers to the small business web site

may not be able to quickly or efficiently access the information needed to create and complete a potential sale for the small business. Many

customers might decide to instead go to a 'faster' website where they can complete a sale in less time. How does the small business compete

with that? Spend more to battle the large corporations? The great thing about the internet is since its beginning it has been an equal 'playing

field' for all - Keep It That Way!

-R S, Buckeye, AZ

The internet works great the way it is ----doesn't need to be "fixed".

-Marla Walker, Guthrie, OK

Guess we all know why they want to end net neutrality ..... for once we heard the truth and had a voice ...... now they want to discriminate

against us .... will we ever learn to stand up for ourselves?

-Paula Bourgeois, Woodland Park, CO

The Internet is fast becoming a utility as ubiquitous as water and electricity. It allows for exchange of incredible amounts of information,

which has dramatically shaped 21st century society. It has become an invaluable tool for communication, commerce, and many other areas.

The "fast lanes" touted by ISPs that wish to undermine net neutrality would only result in increased costs for the standard speeds we are

accustomed to, while providing poorer quality baseline service for those unable to pay for anything beyond standard service. This is a totally

unacceptable hijacking of what I believe will become an essential service, on par with sewer, gas, and electricity. For ISPs to hold this amount

of power over the spread of information is absurdly unjust - protecting net neutrality is vital.

-Oriana Spizzo, Belleville, IL

Dear FCC, I don't believe this comment wave that is surely coming at you will actually sway your mind. It is clear that you are too deep in

debt with the Telecomm lobby to actually listen to the masses. But if somehow you are willing to bite the hand that feeds you, if somehow you are willing to ignore the wishes of the telecomm companies in favor of listening to the public, if somehow you value your neutrality, then you

must keep the internet's neutrality in place.

-Ryan Thies, Jong beach, CA

To the FCC: Please do what is right. Heed the voice of the American people. Protect the neutrality of the Internet. It was created for the people,

by the people. You, as the FCC, have an obligation to uphold our right.~. It is egregious that you arc ignoring our plea by siding with these big,

narcissistic, and gluttonous communications corporations. You must do what is right for your country not for who has the most money. End

the tyranny today. Send a strong message to Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, and the rest telling them you refuse to be bullied by their lobbiests and

their money. Side with your people. Side with America. Side with freedom. Throw out the rules, hear our collective voice, and do what is

right. Reclassify ISP's as common carriers and protect Net Neutrality once and for all. Thank you, Kim Palmer

-}(jm Palmer, Willis, TX

The FCC is becoming the Evil Empire in its treatment of the US public as it bends to the wiU of the large media companies. Internet neutrality

must be maintained and the building of larger and larger monpolies must be halted. President Obama has done a great disservice to the country

in the appointment of the current FCC chair.

-Bill Waldron, Clifton Park, NY

This decision to end net neutrality is just another brick in the wall that corporate power brokers are building to pennanently alienate their

customer base. The decision to end net neutrality is obviously not made in good faith with the interests of the people in mind but is rather

mindful of the interests of the corporations who stand to benefit. Has the FCC become a lackey of the corporations it was organized to

regulate?

-Art Howe, Lakemont, GA

Free Press

Net Neutrality is extremely imponant for the future of democracy. The internet is in essence a developing collective intelligence, a 'global

brain', it must not be commandeered by commercial interests.

-Dana L Andersen, Nevada City, CA

To fail to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, and enforce Net Neutrality is an egregious breach of the purpose of the FCC. The level of

dysfunction is beyond any "gray area" interpretations, and is a concerning flag at the level of corruption present to produce anything so far in

opposition to the interests of the common good. The new proposed "rules" are simply a continuation of polices allowing monopolization, and

noncompetitive behavior. The end result is higher prices, lower quality of service, removal of innovation, denied possibility of new

businesses. and failures to upgrade infrastructure. Unless there is a change, the incumbent business will continue to prevent new competition

through manipulation of laws. As they have (and will likely continue to) fail to upgrade/repair infrastructure, the only infrastructure available

in the greater part of the United States will be the same copper cable-based technology present in the I 900's that is still largely the only present

now. Ultimately snmting the growth of any tech-related business, and inccntivising innovators to avoid starting lheir business the United

States. This is not the future the FCC should be allowing, and it is not their purpose as a regulating body.

-Travis Palmer, Hudsonville, Ml

Keep the Internet neutral.

- Ronald K. Harvey, Arvada, CO

There are many reasons that net neutrality is the right way to go. Far more than any detriments that can be cited, truly equal data transmission

for all participators on the Internet contributes to: a more informed electorate, better informed students who are ready to compete at the speed

of the modem World. easier and more manageable lives by virtue of the benefits afforded by web-based day-to-day transactions, etc. There is

no honest reason for splitting the Internet into a mufti-tiered service.

-Michael Pukish, Auburn, AL

now's the time to classify the internet a utility, and make the providers provide speeds comparable to Korea, Australia and places that have

much better speeds than here in the U.S .

- Jesse Green, Delray Beach, FL

Almost ALL of the advantages in this world have been stolen by the corporations. Handing them this edge would be absolute proof that you

are as bought as the corrupt congressional crowd in Washington.

-Mike B. Reed, Sheridan, IL

Reclassify the ISP as common carrier.

- Linda Tift, Chapel Hill, TN

ISPs should be reclassified as common carriers for the protection of all internet users.

-Richard Snook, LINCOLN, NE

I find it very difficult to believe that I.) anyone at the FCC will actually read this message, and 2.) that anyone who might actually read it will

care. None the less, I consider it my duty as an American and as a defender of democracy to let you know how bad an idea it is that you are

proposing in your so-called "Net Neutrality" proposal which, despite your insistence to the contrary, will create a two-tier, haves-and have.

nots Internet. Of course, you already know this, so I needn't explain why this will be the inevitable outcome of granting enormous telecom

monopolies the power to detennine who sees what and and at what speed. You clearly know the consequences but still appear poised to grant

this monopolistic, innovation squelching, free speech suppressing travesty of justice in complete disregard of the popular will. Since what you

plan to carry out is profoundly undemocratic I am not surprised that the voicing of popular outrage at this naked power grab falls on your deaf

ears. So instead, I will simply remind you that many of you have children and/or grandchildren, and what you do today to destroy democracy

and free speech in America will profoundly diminish the quality of their lives. As you lie on your deathbed assessing the quality of the life you

led, you will not be able to suppress the memory of this evil action. Remember this as you cast your votes.

- Kevin McDermott, Westchester, IL

Free Press

Because without Net Neutrality - 98% of us will continue to be 2nd & 3rd class citizens. Unable to access the internet in a timely fashion -

unless we pay through the nose as we already are doing with cable providers like Comcast and Tune Warner with no end in s ight This

almighty $ hostage taking must stop.

-Nancy Nelligan-McGarry, Charles Town, WV

You know when you have a coalition of liberals and conservatives complaining, you must be doing something very, very wrong.

-Bob Pitchalonis, holland, PA

Net Neutrality is vital for innovation! Blow this and you'll crush the future of American Innovation. We've already handed over our good

paying jobs to the rest of the world, lets not give this away too. Please don't be be short sighted!

- Kelly Albin, Oakland, CA

Net Neutrality is important for a democracy to work.

-Katherine J Bats is, Greenfield, MA

The fact that this is open for debate is ridiculous. The spin that ISPs arc giving the American public is full of garbage. To take down net

neutrality will not only significantly harm the economy by beating down competition, but it will also enable the monopoly that is currently held

in the hands of Comcast/Time Warner to expand and dominate despite their terrible service, reputation, and customer satisfaction. Furthennore,

there is a slippery s lope in this that could potentially lead to infringement of free speech.

-Nathanael Read, Salt Lake City, UT

Nel neutrality is First Amendment free speech in the 21st century; Internet should not be used by Mr. Wheeler to serve his fonner clients;

"free speech" for sale to the wealthy is not free speech, but I think everyone knows this already.

- Martin Iseri, Fair Oaks, CA

I believe that small business innovation will be be diminished by reducing the free-flow of internet access. We risk a great loss of creativity in

every sphere of human thought and behavior by limiting net neutrality. Those who could control free expression will certainly do so even

without devious or nefarious intent This will handcuff our populace and demean our society.

- Mike McCabe, Madison, WI

DO NOT DISCRIMINATE THOSE WHO CANNOT PAY FOR YOUR IDEAS OF YOUR NEW RULES. AT&T HAS TAKEN OVER

DIRECTV. COMCAST AND VERIZON HAS THEIR AGENDAS.THROW OUT YOUR RULES AND RECLASSIFY ISPs AS

COMMON CARRIERS. I USE THE INTERNEf TO INPUT MY TIME IN FOR MY JOB. HA VE GONE GREEN BILLING AND

PA Y ING BILLS . CONNECT WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT USE THE

TWO-TIERED INIBRNET, THE ELDERLY, NEW SMAI.L BUSINESSES, VETERANS STUDENTS, SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES WONT BE USING THE INTERNET, DO NOT LET THE THREE COMPANIES DECIDES WHO CAN H A VE THE FAST OR SLOW

LANES.

-Sharon Wood, Greeley, CO

the more I learn about how the arnerican people are being sold out to the highest bidder the angrier I feel. I believe the internet was built in a

large part with the peoples dollar and it belongs to us and is not for sale. I see the free internet as the last vestige of true freedom of speech and

a potential for true democracy. We don't have tinie for anyone to own knowledge, or communication we need to give access to all if we are to

find solutions to the problems facing us.

- Moira Lourie, Kensington, CA

Seems like net neutrality is already gone. I have to pay comcast more to get faster internet speeds. Surely that is wrong. You should fix that instead of making it worse.

- Mike Barrett, Buffalo Grove, IL

Free Press

Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. As a former lobbyis t Wheeler has a conflict of interest. Get rid of him! Now! The internet is not for sale!

- Laird Scott, Whitewater, WI

The internet has become one of the primary forms of communication, and messing with it is denying us our rights of communicating and

staying informed without bias from powerful companies.

- Alejandro Mufioz Munoz, Miami, FL

Throw out your proposed rules and reclassify IS P's as common carriers, immediately. I insist.

-Susan Chandler, Fon Pierce, FL

Watch the John Oliver show on HBO. I agree w/everything be said.

-Cindy Koch, Long Beach, CA

The only democratic internet is an ab solute neutral internet.

-Steve merrick, Playa Del Rey, CA

corporate capture of government sucks ass

-Mike Leary, Seattle, WA

The intemets is super important as it is where I get all the news I care about and am super social.

- Warren Perkins Dinsmore, springfield, MO

Dear FCC, Net Neutrality is crucially important to preserve in the United States to prevent, as John Oliver has put it, "to prevent cable

company fuckery." The government and cable companies are currently highly intertwined with one another, easily seen in that FCC Chairman

Tom Wheeler used to be the head of the lobbying ann of the cable companies. This is an egregious conflict of interest and at it's most basic is a

violation of our human rights. At the highest level, it's corporate and governmental corruption, not surpris ing. You must do everything in your

power to quash this new set of FCC rules and keep the internet free and open. Sioncerely,

- Michael Schramm, Ithaca, NY

FCC - throw out your rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

-Gary Moyer, potomac, MD

Do NOT end Net Neutrality. it is already too expensive for most of us. giving the rich even more is neither fair nor just!

- Richard Prendergast, SouthHaven, MI

I do not like to begin another session of the "Haves" getting good sruff, and the "Have nots" getting nothing.

-Sharon Easterly, Morgan Hill, CA

No matter how you try to misstate or misconstrue it, the cable companies are monopolies and the government their dupes. Now a fox has been

selected to oversee the hen house! Come on , grow a set and think about the country instead of the corporations. Wow, wouldn't that be

something new and exciting!

- Harry A Hudson jr, Cherry hill , NJ

Corporate shills are already WAY too obnoxious now. Please don't fast track this cyber slime.

- John Brewster, Troy, ME

Free Press

The internet doesn't need a "fast lane." Shopping is a leisure activity. The only things that need to load faster arc the non-profit reference sites

kids use for doing homework, Amber alerts, and tornado warnings.

-Judith Sanders, fredericksburg, VA

I believe that small business innovation will be be diminished by reducing the free-now of internet access. We risk a great loss of creativity in

every sphere of human thought and behavior by limiting net neutrality. Those who could control free expression will certainly do so even

without devious or nefarious intent This will handcuff our populace and demean our society.

- Rick Netty, McFarland, WI

TI1ere are not two classes of internet users.

- J arnes Zeman, Deadwood, SD

I support Net Neutrality. Let's make it a public utility and keep it fair for everyone.

- Lane Nevares, Brooklyn, NY

As a developer and a geek, the net should not limited in this way.

- Taryn White, Thornton,

Protecting net neutrality should be the FCC's number one consideration. The public does not want to put an end to the equality of data -- only

the major cable companies do (companies that are ranked among the most hated in the nation). Please do your duty as a government

organization and heed the public's opinion. Protect net neutrality and reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

- Hannall Sentenac, Miami, FL

Dear FCC, If it is not broken, do not fix it. The Internet and the World Wide Web are fine as they are. Why disrupt a well run system to satisfy

the needs of those who would like to make a buck off of it? The Internet provides a level playing field for everyone who bas access to it. What

you are proposing to do is selfish and unnecessary. Why? Just, why? Are you really so shallow that you cannot see the conuption? THIS IS

A RIP OFF AND YOU KNOW IT. Is there any conceivable benefit to ALL parties involved in this? No. Please leave it alone and let Net

Neutrality continue. It has been benefitting us all without your meddling. If, however, this argument is about making service providing

companies more competitive in the non-competitive Internet., perhaps you should provide incentives to increase the infrastructure that we use

the Internet with. If Verizon and AT&Twould like to upgrade the grid to provide more competitive service, that would be a solution that

WOULD BENEFIT all parties involved. There would be faster upload/download speeds, more efficiency, and increased competition. If the

offset costs were passed on to the customer, so be it We will be paying for a better product. However, removing Net Neutrality is threatening

the websites who are posting content for no good reason. They are using the Internet as a site to launch their businesses just as brick and

mortar buildings use land and advertising. The Internet is fair for a reason, and it should remain so. Sincerely, Deeanna Bunton

-Deeanna Bunton, Louisville, KY

So many Americans are using the internet to take classes, to further their education, to research job and housing opportunities, to detetmine

health care eligibility, and to apply to jobs online, all activities that lead ultimately to a stronger middle class, the crucial engine for our

economic recovery. We need access to the internet to insure economic growth!

-Nancy Devine, Mountain View, CA

Net neutrality must be protectected by reclassifying ISP's as common carriers. Failure to do so will have dramatic affects on entrepreneurs,

consumers and free speech. Mr Wheeler, it is obvious that you were put there to do away with net neutrality. Your associates in the cable

industry failed to recognize the opposition you would encounter. Failure to ensconce net neutrality into law will make it obvious to all

Americans that we live in an oligarchy. l don't think you or the oligarchs are ready for the blowback.

-William B Molony, New Orleans, LA

Free Press

TI1e internet needs to remain open at the same speed for all who use it in the USA. Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Viacom should not be

allowed to carve out a fast lane to make additional profits. Streaming 1V could be set back by creating a fast lane for Corporate America.

Perhaps the telecom companfos are feeeling threatened by Amazon Prime and Netflix where you pay a much lower monthly fee and have

greater choice of progranuning. The voice of the people needs to be heard in the matter of net neutrality! The FCC has a responsibility to

protect the interest of the majority and not just the plutocrats who try to impose their will on our government at every tum!!

-Mr. Dana C. Schultz, Caseville, MI

The internet should be equal for everyone forever, it was invented and developed with our tax dollars and should be treated as a public utility!

Do not let the monopolies control you and destroy our reasonable expectation of fairness.

-Mark Willsie, Hanover, PA

I oppose the two-tiered system. There is no need for this. I want NET NEUTRALITY. We see what you are trying to do and it is disgusting.

Freedom and democracy and fair economics are too important to allow this abuse of money and telcom influence in our society.

-Russell Dusenberry, Ithaca, NY

I think it's pretty obvious why net neutrality is important to all of us. What I wonder is why keeping the net fair and equal isn't important to the

body we've commissioned to regulate it. It wouldn't have anything to do with the millions of dollars that have been paid to your chairman by

the very companies trying to bring on netmeggeddon, would it? lndustry shills pretending to to care about the people you are supposed to be

working for? It seems pretty clear that it would have to do with that. FCC? F ... Comcast's Chairman.

-Allegra chambers, Oakland, CA

The internet is my connection with the rest of the world. I'm a senior on a small fixed income and can't afford expensive fees for internet. Just

leave it alone and keep it neutral. A TT already has a slow and a fast speed, according to how much you pay. I'm on slow speed because I can't

afford to pay over $20.00 a month. The Gov't. is already spying on us, what more can one do to stop that? Thank you for your time.

-Barbara Campbell, Vidor, TX

There's no Freedom, without freedom of information!

-Angelique Sullivan, Bothell, WA

Net Neutrality is important to me as I want to access equal access to all material at the same speed. A start up company with a good idea or

product should have the same speed as Nettlix or any other large corporate being. A two tier system discriminates against start up companies

and those who can not afford the higher costs. If the new regulations pass it would give large corporate telecommunication corporations huge

control over what information is allowed on the fast track and what information is derailed to the slow lane. Basically, these large corporate

beings will control what information is given priority and what organization will basically be shuttle off to the side. This not the freedom our

American soldiers fought for. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

-Anne Wolf, Santa Rosa, CA

NO to two-tiered service! Reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

-John Hurtado, Benbrook, TX

#%@#%!!!!!

-Mark Woods, Federal Way, WA

Fair access for all of us. No special access for the privileged. Students, journalists, academics, artists, local politicians, cannot pay higher rates

for fasler speeds. Keep the net freer, fair and fast. FCC --- throw oul your new rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers. This is

the ONLY way to protect real Net Neutrality.

-Lee Stephanie Roscoe, Brewster, MA

Free Press

I am barely able to afford basic cable and phone internet service now. There is no way I could afford tiered internet access. I am positive there

are millions like me, no matter what the service providers tell you.

-Tish Yarborough, Wilmington, NC

The only way to protect net neutrality is to reclassify ISPs as common carriers. Anything else is just another fonn of censorship, and an

infringement on my firs t amendment rights by corporations. Being able to decide what gets passed on and what gets delayed, is plain and

simple censorship.

-John Robinson, Tolland, CT

goua keep things OPEN and NOT REGULA TED: got enough of that already. access is key!

- Deb Doolittle, wakefield, RI

This issue is so important because some of the same corporations that used a free and open internet are the same scoundrels that want to

restrict it. Net neutrality is really a misnomer. You are by no means maldng it neutral.

- Alan Brown, Canon City, CO

One would have thought that we learned a lesson from the Citizens United decision: you can not let big money deprive the people of their

rights to equal access. Permitting an elimination of net neutrality is horrible. Stop the rules permitting the elimination of net neutrality.

-Lawrence Sandoval, Minneapolis, MN

I want my GOVERNMENT to have some integrity and honor its obligations to the PEOPLE, not the CORPORA TIO NS !!

- Fred Chuang, Los Angeles, CA

Keep it on the level.

- Peter Gore-Symes, Brisbane,

The internet should be free of interference by monopolistic corpor-c1tions and their FCC friends. This is essential to this essential public service.

-J Cherr, NY, NY

KEEP Net Neutrality!! No discrimination on fees, please!

-Leigh Rollins, Washington, DC

Everyone should have equal access to the internet. Do not contribute to the knowledge divide!

- Ms. Helen Colby, Miami, FL

This is very important to me and I will watch and remember how you vote.

-Kristen Gil.martin, Alhambra, CA

Don't destroy the internet! That's the path you're on with a two tiered internet Retain net neutrality, it's only fair.

- L Parrish, Carmel,, CA

Monopolies need to comply to the Anti-Trust laws. The consumer is being billed to death and we have no where to turn if we want internet,

obviously an essential aspect of modem life. The dinosaurs need to be dismantled, the people empowered, the consumer given options, and

reasonable fees.

- Valerie Gilbert, new york, NY

KEEP NET NEU1RALITY!

-Eric Rose, Baltimore, MD

Free Press

Has Comcast offered you a job? You join your past member of the FCC who went to Comcast early.

-A Andaloro, Stlouis Park, MN

Net Neutrality! All of us have the same rights!

- Heman Gonzalez, Vicente Lopez,

The wealthy should not control the Internet, whether they represent cable companies or other entities. The Internet should remain an unbiased

provider of information, some of which may be used to protect our freedom and civil rights.

-Gaylene Sloane, Lakewood, OH

the internet is the great "leveler" in the entire world. it brings knowledge, entertainment, education - MIT has its classes on the internet, for

crying out loud. please, please do not screw with the access for anyone - access or speed. this is truly of the people, by the people, and for the

people - of the world ... and not just another place to make a buck. once you start charging, censorship is not far behind.

-Mary Harayda, Ormond Beach, FL

The internet needs to be regulated just like the telephone lines. It's too imponant to entrust in lhe hands of a couple of giant monopolistic

corporations. Creating fast lanes will limit competition and consolidate power into even fewer corporate spheres of influence. How the FCC

can even consider this a decent proposal boggles the mind. I support full net neutrality and oppose the FCC's current proposal. Make the

internet a utility as it rightfully is in actual practice and every day life of ordinary Americans.

-Scott Orr, Chicago, IL

When ISP charge me and content providers, my 5 family member budget turns into a 3 family members budget, the only thing is that we're

still 5 ...

-Nate Ayala, san antonio, TX

The last mile of internet access is controlled by monopolies; telcos and cable companies. These companies must not gain the power over what

US citizens have access to on the internet Keeping open access to information is critical to healthy democracy. Please reclassify last mile ISPs

as common carriers to protect freedom of speech, innovation and keep a level playing field for competition.

- Kurt Miller, Port Washington, NY

A system were a two-tiered Internet, with fast lanes for those who can afford the extra fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us is not

acceptable. Like most Americans I can not afford the extra fees for a "Fast lane" internet connection. Like most Americans we will become

angry and demand your JOB if you go through with this insane plan!! Think about it carefully. Your Job may depend on it! If you can afford

to loose your job, then forget everything I have said.

-Douglas Fish, new port richey, FL

Do not kill net neutrality. Net neutrality is vital to the anti-trust nature of functional and fair business in the United States. Business in contemporary society is done via the internet If cable companies can not compete with one another, then the business of the modem world

will suffer. Do not let this injustice occur.

-Elizabeth Bullock, Chicago, IL

The internet is something that gives everyone a place to be themselves. Since we can't always be ourselves in public for probably lhe same

reasons why you're trying to censor it, we rely on the internet and its millions of inhabitants to be ourselves with. There, we can always find

someone like us, even if !hey live on the other side of the world. It's a wondetful place, a place that should be left free ... Just like the country

you say you work for.

- Jim Salotti, Ridgefield Park, NJ

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TI1row out its rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers. AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with fast lanes

for those who can afford the extra fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us. These companies would have the power to pick winners and

losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it

-Mr. Albert Valencia, Huntington Beach, CA

The proposed net neutrality rules are nothing more than an attempt by the cable companies to extend their already ferocious and harmful

monopolies and reduce competitoin. They also will also consign free speech to the rich and powerful, turning America into a 3rd world

country, killing innovation and entrepreneurship. The Internet is NOT broken. Don't kowtow to the cable lobby. Don't succumb to these

efforts to corrupt our government.

-L Nernschoff, Los Angeles, CA

Restoring Net Neutrality will continue to allow for the amazing technological innovations we have seen in this country over the past 25 years.

Why would we instill policies that put America at a disadvantage? I implore you to stop the providers from derailing American innovation and

reinstate Net Neutrality!

-Amir Bakhshaie, Sunnyvale, CA

we cannot let companies own our government, it is of the people and the people deserve Net Neutrality. We need to encourage competition

within our Internet Service Providers. even if you have to treat them like dialysis centers where a company can only have so many offices per

square miles. If an ISP is allowed to gouge websites for more how long will it take them to the same for consumers? Our internet service

providers suck as it is, please don't allow them to screw us over even more.

- Megann w, MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO

The free enterprise system has always been the key to our success and net neutrality is the electronic implementation of this vital methodology!

- Adam Gewanter, New York, NY

Wheeler's plan would let Internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with fast Janes for those

who can afford the extra fees and a s low dirt road for the rest of us. These companies would have the power to pick winners and losers online

and discriminate against online content and applications. Please do not approve this plan.

- Harold T. Hodes, Ithaca, NY

Cable companies shouldn't be able to control the content of what I see on my computer. I should be the one making that decision based on

what I want, not based on what a cable company makes affordable to me. Keep the net neutral.

-Randy Lantz, Albuquerque, NM

Net neutrality goes with freedom of information. We should not be prohibited access to any websites deemed unworthy and we should not

have to deal with degraded service so the rich can have the fastest internet under the sun. This is an issue of EQUALITY.

- Jesse Varner, Sheffield Lake, OH

I just watched a video: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality. If you haven't seen it watch it; it is a simple, straight

forward message with which I agree!!!!!

-Paul Cobb, Tucson, AZ

The internet should not have a two tier system controlled by Comcast! Telecoms have too much political influence, protect net neutrality.

-Chris Wolfe, Portland, OR

Net neutrality is so important because it allows the voices of the 99.9% of our population to be heard and not silenced by the O.J % that

controls most of the wealth in our society. This is the freedom of speech issue of the 21st-century - Paul Kornberg, Tampa, FL

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Not one persons voice is more important than another especially when it involves practices that are used to benefit the people who can afford

the faster connection. Reading Flash Boys you can see why speed is so important for those with so much money and why they are trying to change the rules to speed and make people charge more for especially fast connections. People are more important than corporations and we have already set the precedent that business is more important than people in recent rulings. This would further degrade humans in· a

democratic system that was built for the benefit of humans as a whole not just a few.

-Scott Dorn, washington, DC

As someone who works in the IT field, I don't understand how there has been no debate, no active search for experts on both s ides of the

issue, no work at all on the governments part to make sure this issue is executed in a way that helps the american consumer. The internet isn't

broken and yet you want to fix it? I implore you, do the right thing and kill this legislation.

-Alexander Davis, Las Vegas, NV

A neutral internet may be the last place where people of all income levels can get information of any kind.

-George Stritter, Newton, NJ

Seriously, why is this even a thing? "Preventing cable company fuckery" is right, don't let the cable companies ruin our lives!

-Curtis Hart, Tarzana, CA

We need more voices, not fewer. Business should be subject to more peoples' best interests, not businesses of fewer, more selfish interests.

-John T. Denton, Encinitas, CA

No unfair advantages to the ones who are big enough rich enough to buy that advantage. As a daily user of the internet I want to have the same access to any and all sites. What I read and visit should be my own choice and it should be as easy to access each and everyone. Further

more, this great country grew because new companies could compete with the big ones. That will n?t longer be true if the rules change to favor the large onces. Giant corporations are taldng over our lives and it has to stop. Big is NOT better and favoritism for the BIG ones is not

good for anyone but them. This is not what our country is supposed to be about. So, true Net Neutrality is what I want and what is fair for all. Please throw out these new rules and classify ISPs a common carriers ---- which really is what they are.

-Elizabeth Nyland, Hudson, NY

ASSHOLE GREEDHEADS WANT CONTROL SO IBEY CAN OVERCHARGE FOR POORER SERVICE THAN THEY GET IN

ESTONIA. STOP THESE SCUMLICKING THUGS!

- John Goeckennann, Grants Pass, OR

A two-tier Net system would create a monopoly, restricting not only choice but innovation in driving viewers to whatever sites pay the most

It would harm not only my small, independent Net business but ultimately all Net commerce, large and small.

-Danna Jackson, Bloomington, IN

SIMPLE: Protect ACTUAL CITIZENS from the corporations and designate the Internet as a COMMON CARRIER!! EASY!! Capitulating to the corporate abusers is disgusting and pathetic and bas nothing to do with the MISSION of the FCC. If you're going to screw around with tax dollars trying to police LANGUAGE on TV, at least FIX THIS PROBLEM and make the internet FAIR and EQUAL for all citizens.

-Shannon Ahem, Monterey Park, CA

Where is the true leadership in this country for the COMMON good? Am't you looking out for the interests of the PEOPLE? Please stand up

to all these mega mergers that only hurt a chance at LIFE, a fighting chance for a decent life.

-Kim Brazill, Antioch, CA

Keep the bloodsucking cable companies from destroying our internet. I support total net neutrality. No compromise.

-Forrest Furman, Waialua, HI

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It is a public service.

-Victoria V. Heidorn, Gardner, MA

A two or more tiered internet will just allow those who are already super wealthy get even more so at the expense of our Democracy,

education and innovation. We should all be afraid of an Oligarchy - the top I% controlling everything. Net neutrality is the equalizer.

-Fred Morrison, Hayward, CA

The current FCC Chailman, Tom Wheeler should recuse himself, as he has a history of repesenting special interest groups as a lobbyist Sense

I do not expect that he will recuse himself, the FCC should listen to the enitre expressing population of the US, and support true Net

Neuterality. We, the people will remember the decisions made by the FCC on this subject. Our very freedom is at risk. Letting the

megacorporations which are internet service providers have their way is both evil, and unethical

-Peter Tidd, Eureka, CA

Why would any one of us want to be in the slow lane of progress? I would like to see the FCC ensuring that access to the Net is as easy to

obtain and inexpensive as possible, given iL~ importance to us in practically every aspect of life these days. The FCC is theoretically working

for me and every other citizen. Yes, it can be confusing, as some folks think corporations are people. If they are, each corporation gets one

place in the lane, like the rest of us real people.

-Susan E Crockford-Peters, Branford, CT

A two-tiered internet is not acceptable. Prptect the public from the special interests and reclassify Internet Service Providers as

-Irwin Hoenig, Laurel, MD

FREE SPEACH

-Jean Fleming, Studio City, CA

Tom Wheeler is a frightening ghoul and a harbinger of further corporate takeover in the US. He needs to be stopped because the dissolution of

COMPLETE net neutrality spells one of the largest successes for crony capitalism and monopolistic excess ever thought of. PLEASE do not

let this happen.

-Mike Burnside, Ypsilanti, MI

ISP are unquestionably "common carriers." There are no other reasonable interpretations.

-Mark Snyder, Flemington, NJ

We, the common people of the USA, have little to no upward mobility and our educational system sucks. The NSA legally spies on us and

large portions of the rest of the world appear to despise us. No matter who we put into office, there seems to be little to no change in sight.

You got us. The only true freedom we have left is a neutral internet Help keep us placated by allowing us to continue to entertain ourselves

and to dream that we, like Mark Zuckerberg, might be able to make it big via on line commerce. We know we can't make it in real life. If you insist upon pricing us out of our mind numbing complacency, you may gain more profits (seriously, do you really need more money?) but you

also might create an actively unhappy electorate who has little to nothing to lose. Is that what you want? Please reclassify ISPs as common

carriers and allow us to continue to dream. It's not a lot to ask. Really. Thank you, Mr. Obama, for change we can't believe in. And thank you,

Mr. Wheeler, for your dogged loyalty to corporate America.

-Norma Gail Smith-Beil, Saint Louis, IL

Internet access should be treated as a utility, not a luxury item.

-Matthew Vallon, Framingham, MA

Net Neutrality is theFAIRESTway for EVERYBODY.

-Douglas Thompson, Chicago, IL

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The days when only major corporations could produce quality content are Jong pasL Now, almost anyone with sufficient talent can create a

wonderful live action video or animation, which are quite often far better, in my opinion, that what is available from the major networks and

cable companies. Right now I can find the content I want to see, whether it comes from a multibilllion dollar corporation or some guy working

in his mother's basement, and I have just about equal access to both. If net neutrality is overturned, then the major corporations will be able to

pay for their content to take up nearly all of the available bandwidth and the little guys will all be trying to squeeze their content through a

keyhole; the same keyhole. This should not happen! I should be able to watch the content I want, no matter who it comes from. The content I

like will probably never appeal to the masses, so it won't be put out by a giant corporate purveyor of homogenized pap which can afford to pay

through the nose for the fast Jane. Do not do this! Throw out the rules you have proposed and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

-William Ansley, Westtown, NY

Monopolies used to be against the law.

-Betty Phillips, Topeka, KS

Wheeler's plan would let Internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with fast lanes for those

who can afford the extra fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us.

-Mr. Richard T Oberlander, H anover, PA

Democracy is served best by equal access to the sharing of ideas and information. Slowing down various sectors of the internet and/or

extorting via monopoly, money from average citiz.ens looking to participate in public discourse regarding the public good or nonprofit

information services serving the public good by contributing to public discourse, will deprive the majority of people a voice because Free

Speech will be Fee Speech and that is bad for democracy, America, and the world.

-Angela Smith, Seattle, WA

Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. I use the internet every day and I do not want to become a second class citiz.en so some billionaire can get

even richer.

- Margaret Cole, Saratoga, CA

The big media companies are already pricing Americans out of the ability to have and keep the internet in their homes. If we don't keep net

neutrality, it will get worse, far worse, for families and for America. LI

- Kevin Evans, Springfield, MO

Because I am tired of being controlled by corporations. The Internet belongs to the people. Regulate it like a public utility, in the best interests

of the American public.

-M Garrett, South Jordan, UT

Internet Service Providers should be classified as common carriers! Do not create "Internet Inequality" -- which would simply serve to further

advance the inequalities that "Income Inequality" has already created in too many areas. Free communication and access to information should

not be destroyed.

- Kathy Bradley, Lugoff, SC

Net neutrality is important because no company should have control over the Internet. The Internet should remain open and free for all people.

There should be no restrictions for anyone which I believe is very important.

- Todd Freeman, Kings Mountain, NC

ISPs must be classified as Common Carriers because the Internet is the indispensable information-flow utility of the 21st century. It has truly become as basic to our health as power and water; the Internet protects our MENTAL health the way those protect physical. Do the right thing

and reclassify broadband as a utility now.

-Brian Waak, Aurora, IL

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Which is more important: the health of our democracy and the integrity of your oath, or corporate profits, electoral bribes, and free perks paid

by lobbyists? Please adhere to your oath of office. Please.

-Mr. Reuben Yancey, Olympia, WA

If I have to explain it to the FCC, there is no way they will understand or care.

-Doug Landau, St Petersburg, FL

Hey FCC! Reclassify ISPs as common carriers!!! SAVE Net Neutrality!!

-Ann McCaffray, Sperryville, VA

Maintain Net Neutrality and our rights to connect and communicate. It is the right thing to do.

-Thomas Perez, Mims, FL

Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. I use the internet every day and I do not want to become a second class citizen so some billionaire can get

even richer.

-Margaret Cole, Saratoga, CA

freedom of speech is the core value of this country and net neutrality is a modem version of that value. Those who have a lot of money should

not have any more right to the expression of free speech than those who have less in any form (internet, voting etc .. ) I should not have to be

telling this to the FCC. This is the reason the FCC exist. Are you confused as to why you exist & the protection of the rights of the people you

serve? If you are not confused then protecting net neutrality is what you are doing now & for ever more. If you are confused then big business

& special interest will continue to corrupt the American way of life until it not longer exist Please get this straight & stop the double talk lies

and do the right thing for the people you serve now & for the generations to come.

-Richard Papemo, Somerset, CA

I want my children to have the same access to the internet as anyone else's. I want my business to have the same access to the internet as Apple

or Google have. The internet is a utility unless you want to restrict it for your own personal gain and profit. The FCC should protect the

interests of those who can't afford to hire Armani suited lobbyists. The cable behemoths have no right to control the most powerful technology

on earth.

-Vance Hiner, St. Louis, MO

ISPs should be common carriers. Anything else robs people unable to afford "fast lane" fees of a decent Internet experience. Keep Net

Neutrality. The Internet is a public service, not a scheme for big companies to get rich and deprive many web users of the Internet they should

have!!

-Rachel Scott, Whitewater, WI

A free and open internet is vital to my life and the future of this country. I strongly oppose restrictions on open internet access. Throw away

your currently proposed rules and classify the internet a common carrier.

-Allen W. Todd, Corvallis, OR

This is a swing vote issue for me. There is NO WAY in the world I want to see Comcast and other Internet gate keepers have the power to

decide who gets how much internet bandwidth, how fast. If this effort to destroy Net Neutrality passes Congress, I will not only vote against

any one who supported the downfall of Net Neutrality, but also any one who enabled and/or supported those at the FCC and Congress who

pushed this through. Shame on you, FCC. And though I am a Democrat, shame on you too, President Obama.

-Scott Smith, Oakland, CA

Freedom of ideas by all of us for all of us.

-Carolyn Summers, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

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Eliminating net neutrality would give internet providers the power to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content

and applications. This is just one more wrongful application that money is speech.

-Michael Rice, Tucson, AZ

FCC Chainnan Tom Wheeler is pushing a plan that would allow rampant discrimination online. If approved, these rules would mean the end

of Net Neutrality. Wheeler's plan would let Internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with fast

lanes for those who can afford the extra fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us. These companies would have the power to pick winners

and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. It isn't necessary

if the FCC designates the internet as a common carrier and they must do it.

-Robert McCombs, Arcata, CA

Everyone should have the same quality of service.

-Tommy Bolles, Nashville, TN

As an underemployed, part-time preschool working college student (with a bachelors under my belt), I can't afford to pay for extra fees on

anything! Also, I feel that access to information is one of the more important parts of modem American culture, and is a right that every

American should have. I have a right to know, learn, and read what I want. It should not be the right of a corporation to "grant me access" to

infonnation based on where their profits are sourced.

-Jennifer Black, Cincinnati, OH

Net neutrality is necessary for America's growth and freedom.

-John Kohn Ill, Chicago, IL

Stealing the internet to suppress free access and give the big cable companies control over start-ups that could give them competition is the

most outlandish rip-off the FCC could possibly become involved in. STOP this nonsnese and preserve net neutrality.

-Robert M. Rubel, Mira Loma, CA

America was based on access lo information and knowledge. Net Neutrality is now a critical part of this expectation, opportunity, and

appropriate entitlement. Do not allow discretionary, even discriminatory, speed or access to the internet. Thank you for your thoughtful

consideration and preserving our right to access to information.

-Rebecca Phillips, Santa Fe, NM

Please do not allow the current proposal for a two-tier internet to be enacted. The internet is only an agent of change and social empowerment

by virtue of the ability for any individual to be heard clearly and effectively by any other individual, regardless of their endorsements, payroll,

or connections. We must protect the one-tier speed system. Yes, cable companies and service providers bear an exceptional financial burden to

deliver our increasingly data-heavy internet content. We should work as a society, and through policy, to address that in order to lessen that

burden. However, the price we would all pay from a speed-filtered internet is too great to sacrifice the current freedom the world enjoys. Thank you.

-James D Jones-Rounds, Ithaca, NY

A free internet allows young people to become entrepreneurs and build new businesses. We need the innovation to grow.

-Kathleen Tei. lakebay, WA

Net Neutrality is important. You need to protect it, because internet access is the kind of commodity that should be uniformly available to all.

-Ronald Jeffries, Pinckney, Ml

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The tenn "Net Neutrality" is no longer appropriate. The tenn "Net Monopoly" is now more appropriate, because that's where we're headed--no

matter how Wheeler spins it The amount of band width is finite, and to give prioritization (more bandwidth) to deep pockets like NETFLIX

means that average users and innovators will be sacrificed. As the kid in the computer stored explained to me. "There's only so much gas in

everyone's tank," he said."You essential siphon a little gas from the poor guy's scooter so the tractor trailer can get where it's going in a

hurry ... but the scooter is s low and eventually runs our of gas." The idea that this is all being done to deliver entertainment faster over the

Internet ignores that many of us have never watched a NETFLIX movie. In particular I search a lot of academia and other interesting s ites that

are in fact mostly startups. So the place I want to go in the Internet are organizations and businesses that couldn't afford ransom to make their

traffic move nonnally. I don't have have $18 million to lobby the government. Remember: If Wheeler wants to guarantee a "minimum" of

service, then that's all the cable companies will ever give us. Our Internet service is already slower than Estonia, and you want to make it

slower for your cable friends?

-Daniel Menefee, chestertown, MD

It is only through a level field that living, breathing, humans have any real hope of competing with corporations for control of the country. The rules proposed here are nothing less than an attack on the first amendment rights of all citi.zens of the United States.

-Steven Conwell, Amarillo, TX

I'd be willing to bet that a boycott would happen if you made people mad enough .... .! know 1 would certainly support one ...

-Kay Sullivan, Kanab, UT

The Internet has become necessary. I consider it a utility, the same as power and water. It must be regulated as such. Allowing private

interests, such as Comcast, to discriminate in any way the data they transmit undermines competition. These companies are near monopolies in

their current fonn and maintaining Net Neutrality is imperative to maintaining competition. Please, I am requesting that the FCC reclassifies

Internet Service Providers as Title 11 common carriers.

-Guillermo Patino, Sugar Land, TX

Net neutrality needs to remain in it's present neutral state! So much of our economy has been taken over by corporations and big money. Jt

would be yet another travesty to allow a multi-tiered internet access system in which those with Jess financial influence get shafted.

-Catherine Day, Marietta, GA

Americans are basically asking you to bite your owners' hands, to betray those who feed you, and side one time with the American public. Did

you have to take any sort of oath? Wasn't there something like that in there? The former chief lobbyist for the industry is now your leader. Is there nothing wrong with that? Hey, for one time, a most important time -- and I know that none of you will even attempt to read these

conunents, but still I type-- GROW A PAIR! and for once stand with the consumers and most tech companies. One tier is enough, and that

tier has to be ten times faster like most of the civilized world. Estonia has faster download speeds!

- Richard A. Barry, Sarasota, FL

Please don't screw us all, you tossers. Maintain net neutrality.

-Bruce Borlin, OAKLAND, CA

Net Neutrality is such a major issue to me as a life long broadcas ter just to have a safe haven for non corporately owned media! Period.

- Mr. Andy Weber, Chicago, IL

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NET NEUTRALITY is important to me because without it there will be no free speech on the internet and COMCAST and VERIZON will

control all the content we receive on the internet. I receive the worst service in the world from Comcast and no other company offers internet

service at a reasonable speed in my neighborhood. They are a MONOPOLY and soon no one will be able to afford their ever-increasing rates.

Please, please, please, FCC - LISTEN TO YOUR PEOPLE and protect NET NEUTRALITY a DO NOT ALLOW the cable companies to shut out small companies and individuals from the internet. We want to be able to hear from the little people as well as the Monopoly cable

companies. Is this the "democratic way? All content controlled by a MONOPOLY CABLE COMPANY? Internet should be treated as a

utility and must be regulated to ensure everyone equal access to the internet and ensure EVERYONE in the US can afford to access the

internet. FCC - show us you are listening to the people - protect net neutrality and do not allow the deep pockets of the monopolistic cable

companies to influence your decision. Remember you are the GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE - you are not there to

enrich COMCAST and VERIZON. Thank you

-PauUne Harnian, Miami, FL

Because free press is already dead. An open internet is the last hope for the freedom of ideas and information.

-Morwynne Holmyard, Longmont, CO

You screw with Net Neutrality you are messing with freedom. If you are messing with freedom, perhaps you would be more comfortable living in Iran or Russia.

-Rob Rushing, St. Peter, MN

Net Neutrality is critical to our ability to remain in competitive in web applications development in this country. With out net neutrality, we will see higher prices for mediocre services. Already we lag other developed nations due to the monopolies who control our access to the internet,

but to have a two tier service is simply not acceptable. This would be a huge mistake for our country and I encourage you to rethink your

position and support Net Neutrality!

-Kim Daigle, Homewood, AL

My life and business center on the Internet. l'm a self-employed business person working from my home computer. I design and maintain

websites, plus designing books for self-published authors. Net Neutrality and an open Internet are extremely important to me and to the

growing number of individuals who do business in this manner. The Internet is a marvelous phenomenon changing the way people communicate, research, work, and learn. It has opened opportunities and information channels around the world. Why are we trying to change it? Why are we limiting it for the convenience of a few huge corporations that are trying to become monopolies (or they already are) and to

control the way the public uses this tool. Please do not allow the Internet service providers to regulate themselves or create a two-tiered

Internet. Internet should be a public utility. Thank you, Judy Loose

-Judy Loose, Fort Myers, FL

PLEASE THROW OUT these ridiculous rules outlined in the proposal and RECLASSIFY ISPs AS COMMON CARRIERS. Le~s keep the internet equal for EVERYONE to use instead of giving gigantic companies the ability to apply rampant discrimination online. MmmKay?

THANKS.

-Rae Senarighi, Portland, OR

Net neutrality is imperative for our country. The FCC must do its job and protect net neutrality. Tom Wheeler needs to do his job!

-Carolyn Boyles, Cotati, CA

The future of the U.S. economy depends upon entrepreneurs creating companies that we can't even dream of yet. The fair and level playing

field of the Internet is the breeding ground for new and innovative creations and the loss of Net Neutrality would damage this critical resource.

- Ira Chayut, Los Gatos, CA

The current proposed rules will end net neutrality. Tom Wheeler sends me replies toe mails saying he supports a free and open internet. His

proposals will mean an end to a free and open internet It is not free and open, if there is a two tiered system in which internet providers can

pay extra fees to have fast.er lanes than those who don't. Reclassify ISPs as common carriers. No to two tiered Internet. Thank you

-Harvey Dym, Madison, WI

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Please keep the net neutral

-Judy, blairsville, PA

We need these network providers to be reclassified as conunon carriers - they are for everyone, not just Big Money, Big Business ....

-Cecelia Cook, Pawleys Island, SC

Freedom to access and exchange information is crucial to personal and national success. The internet is one of the most effective means for

expression and education; discriminatory access to information online inhibits growth both personally and socially.

-Bert Austin Sherron, Riverside, CA

There is no more room in our culture for the monsters of big business to take everything they want and leave the scraps for everyone else. Do

your fuckin job and keep the net neutral!

- Matt Oyer, Rochester, NY

Look, I'm already sick of lobbyists governing what food we eat, but I lose it when they screw with our internet. Leave our internet alone. The

United States should remember Standard Oil Co. Inc., US Steel, and other monopolies that were outlawed by Congress. Now Comcast and

Tune Warner Cable are wrongfully dominating the playing field and treating their customers like garbage. We're not mindless consumers who will let this thing slide. Let's allow equal opportunity for all businesses on the web and support Net Neutrality.

-Katie Lemmon, Logan, UT

I guess if one was looking to shut down the economy passing this law would be a good start. not to mention giving these already too large

companies more of a monopoly. taking away jobs that could be created or arc working right now, I don't believe would help at this point.

-Beowulf Gilbert, central village, CT

To leave freedom and innovation possible. Capitalism is a play on a level ground: the profit of companies should be limited by fair playing

rules, this is the essence of it, and only by innovating they could stay on top. The rest is corruption and no better than state monopoly.

-Vincent Boudry, Saint Michel-sur-Orge,

We all have the same rights to free speech and press. Some don't have more of a right than others.

-Cassandra Lyons, Lexington, KY

It was just a few decades ago that Standard Oil was broken up by the Government because it was a monopoly. Likewise AT&T a few years

back was broken into "Baby Bells" for similar reasons. Why in any sane world would anyone want to commit internet (or any other

communication method e.g. news networks) suicide?

-Robert Reed, Lake Elsinore, CA

ALL internet users and services should have the SAME priority! NONE should get special rights or special consideration, it should remain a

first come, first serve proposition with NO ability to pay so one can line jump. STAND WITII AMERICA AND FOR REAL NEf

NEUTRALITY Chairman Wheeler!!!

- Jeff Stone, Thornton, CO

I oppose the internet becoming commercialized which is the point of stopping internet neutrality. We have enough disparity between the

"haves" and the "have nots" in other aspects of our society. Please do not destroy the equality that we have on an internet that has neutrality.

-Theodore Stoneberg, McCordsville, IN

Free Press

The wonderful thing about the internet is its diversity, and its infinite capacity of niches. There is no cause, no desire or common interest, that

bas not through the internet created a community that would otherwise be isolated by thousands of miles. There is no cause, or idea that has

not through the internet found the work, funds, or just an audience, to create content or change the world. By 2015 a satellite will be launched

into space largely because of the will of a webcomic's fan base. A subreddit based on a silly picture of a shiba inu recently raised $40k to fund

water projects in poor African nations. An encyclopedia of all human knowledge has been written by random people's spare time. This is the

power of little things, when they come together. And I do not think a handful of high profile websites- the only entities capable of affording

high speed internet under the proposed changes in the US- are capable of providing that. I don't think there's room in COMCASTs vision for

any of those things. -Derek Vanian Conkle-GutientY.£, Davis, CA

YOU'RE RUINING 1HE INlERNET! STOP!

- Willjam A Killian, Denver, CO

--IBIS PLAN IS IBE TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY -- --THIS PLAN IS THE TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY-- --IBIS PLAN

IS THE TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY-- --IBIS PLAN IS THE TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY-- --THIS PLAN IS THE

TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY-- --THIS PLAN IS THE TRUEST SENSE OF MONOPOLY-- THE INTERNET IS MY ONLY

CONTACT WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD. FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS HAVING BEEN BEDRIDDEN AND IBE ONLY TIME I GO

OUT OF MY BEDROOM IS WHEN I SEE MY PHYSICIANS. CHARGING INDIVIDUAL PROVIDERS EXTRA TO ALLOW

THEIR CONTENT WHICH MAKES IT NOT AVAILABLE TO ALL, IS LIKE CHARGING MORE TO CHECK OUT A LIBRARY

BOOK FROM THE HISTORY SECTION OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY. HOW DUMB CAN WE BE? WILL WE NEXT BEGIN

CUTTING OUT PERSONS TONGUES IS TOTAL DISRESPECT AND VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT--! ALREADY

PAY 1/5 OF MY INCOME TO HAVETIIATMINIMALOUTSIDECONTACTVIA THE INTERNET, I WILL THEN END UP

HAVING TO PAY 215 EXTRA TO VIEW ANYTHING IN MY BROWSER BECAUSE YOU'VE ALLOWED 'THE CABLE COMPANIES CONTROL OVER WHAT I CAN SEE, READ. AND ACCESS. PLEASE, SOMEONE BLOWING MY BRAINS OUT

WOULD BE A LESS HEINOUS CRIME. NET NEUTRALITY NEEDS TO BE A PROTECTED AND FOREVER ENFORCED

SUBJECT. DON'T ALLOW COMCAST OR WHOMEVER TO REFUSE TO ALLOW ME ACCESS TO USE MY SITES.

-Gayle Hirschberger, Grayling, Ml

This is the "subtle" beginning of more money and shake down of the public. Please keep Net Neutrality. Cable companies have too much

control and spend unlimited funds for Lobbyists. PLEASE! WE pay more for internet services than many countries. Time Warner and

Comcast should be watched and it looks like it is set for them to take over. NO ... NO .. NO!

-Joan Thome Gifford, San Antonio, TX

Once again, the FCC appears to be rejecting its real mission: the protection of the public interest~ from corporate greed. For shame!

- Dovgin Richard, Santa Barbara, CA

i am one of the millions that support net neutrality. I worked for Lucent for many years and am familiar with how the Internet actually works.

And a large part of the Internet's success - and the companies it spawned - is due to net neutrality. So now. you want to eliminate it so that you

can guarantee that it will be more difficult for startups to compete with established players. That has got to be harmful. John Menard

-John P Menard, Surprise, AZ

We don't want a two tier system. We want the internet to remain on equal footing for everyone.

-Karen Owens, Gainesville, FL

I want you to tell the FCC to throw out its rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers

-Malcolm Yeates, Wellington,

This destruction of a fair and equal internet would create Monopoly for companies that already have close to that already.

-Shaka A. Sickels, Redway, CA

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Don't give in to big bucks

-Robert Cline, richmond, VA

Because I very well could lose my job and home if this passes

-Pete Borchardt, Leander, TX

It is absolute madness that our Government/FCC would act is such a reckless manner and play favoritism to the detriment of our great nation.

Stop FCC. Just stop, making decisions that would benefit a handful of corporations (AT&T, Time Warner, Comcast and Verizon) and one

industry (Monopoly Telecom/Cable) at the cost of all other companies, other industries, the people and the internet (The very symbol of

freedom for our times - an American ideal). Government/FCC your actions reek of corruption and short slightness. Estonia surpasses the

United States of America in telecommunication speeds. Shame on you, the Government/FCC that we are having this crisis over the Open

Internet and Net Neutrality. KEEP lHE INTERNET OPEN AND NET NEUTRAL.

-Brian Singh, Secaucus, NJ

FREEDOM!!!!

-Mr. Eloy Perez, euless, TX

Net Neutrality is important to me because I think I and all other users should have equal access to online content and applications. Internet

service providers should not be given the ability to discriminate between content providers and determine what users can see and how fast they

can see it I ask you to throw out your new rules and reclassify ISPs as common carriers and treat all data equally.

-Kathleen Harker, Madison, WI

Access to the internet is a basic human right in the 21st century.and not something to be sold to the highest bidder.

- Michael Dowling, Winnipeg.Mb,

Still hard to believe how greedy and on the take you at FCC would have to be to give Comcast and Verizon exactly what they want I am

already forced to subscribe to both, where's the competition.

-Steve Bianchi, Newcastle, CA

I think a two-tier internet will be the start of predatory practices by the cable providers. If you allow a second level of speed what keeps the

cable providers from coming with a new charge to the consumer for higher speed access>

--Charles Hirschfield, Silver Spring, MD

I work in the exciting and amazing tech industry as a product design&. I make websites and products that every person has the chance to find

and enjoy. I work with amazingly hardworking CEOs to help them build their companies around tech products. All of this hard work would

be completely crippled if cable companies are allowed to charge more for the internet that delivers vital products to consumers. I practice User-

centered design, and it's a fairly simple concept: Listen to the users. The people. It's almost as simple as "We the people ... " Please do not

ignore the millions who DO NOT support giving the cable companies power to rule, and dominate commerce for all of us. I am FOR net

neutrality that has fostered and created so much industry, commerce and wealth for the country and it's people (even the cable companies).

- Lauren Golembiewski, Austin, TX

Why is it that we are always trying to fix something that is not broken? Voter ID reform when we don't have a voter problem, Pay as you go

internet when we should be saying why is the internet so expensive and slow.

-Mirtalita Matos, N Bellmore, NY

If these freedom killing rules are approved, don't ever talk about the USA as the mother of all democracies :-(((Kill the freedom of your own

citizens if you wish but leave the rest of the world alone ! ! !

-Vincent Marneffe, Dion-Valmont,

Free Press

I do volunteer on my computer for my church. I also am a writer who takes and teaches workshops over the internet. It's bad enough that my

computer is 12 years old, so already slow, but when your provider slows you down in addition ... well, you might as well be using snail mail. I

believe it's contrary to the American way to have a tiered system for internet delivery! I refuse to vote for ANY politician who votes against

net neutrality!

-Kristyn Reid, choctaw, OK

Please reclassify the IS P's as common Carriers. It is the ONLY way to Protect REAL NET NEUTRALITY. Thanks and Blessings to ALL

-Raymond Maroun, Fullerton, CA

3 Words: FREEDOM OF IMFORMA TION! By allowing the speed of information to be provided only by the richest corporations, you're

creating a monopoly on what people can learn. This is a scary idea that a monopoly on information can exist. If the large cable internet providers are not making as much money as they used to ... TOO DAMN BAD! That's called a market change, deal with it. Support Net

Neutraility and don't take away the freedoms of our people in order to allow a few huge corporations to profit

-Erica Bohannon, Henderson, NV

The proposed new rules amount to nothing less than censorship via PROFITABILITY. "Political power and commercial monopoly are NOT

the rights of men," as Edmund Burke said, nor should they be of corporations. Placing limits to access restricts the flow of infonnation, thus

making informed debate less possible. This should not happen in America!

-David Zabriskie, Hawley, PA

Throw out the proposed rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers. This is the ONLY way to protect real Net Neutrality.

-Stephen Brittle, Phoenix, AZ

AND ANOTHER THING--NETNEUTRALITY IS NOT JUST*IMPORTANT*! NET NEUTRALITY IS THE CONSTITUTIONAL

RIGHT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. *WE* OWN THE AIRWAVES. HEY TOM WHEELER, YOU *DO* KNOW WHAT THE

CONSTITUTION IS, DON'T YOU??? ITS THAT PIECE OF PAPER THAT YOU AND THE REST OF YOUR MERCENARY,

PARASIDCAL, SOCIOPATH CRONIES KEEP TRYING TO WIPE YOUR ASS WITH. YOU AND THE REST OF THE 2

PERCENTERS [sic] SEEM TO FORGET YOU ARE OUTNUMBERED BY THE OTHER 98 PERCENT OF US WHO LIVE HERE

TOO. YOUR BIGGEST MISTAKE IS YOUR CONSTANT UNDERESTIMATION OF US. I *WANT* TO SEE YOU PUSH THIS

THROUGH, JUST SO I CAN LAUGH MY ASS OFF WHEN YOU TAKE THE BIG FALL. WE'RE ONTO YOU. NEVER DOUBT

THAT.

-Dana Armenta, Key Largo, FL

Unfettered communication by citizens is the bedrock of a democracy. In the 21st century, such communication is only possible via a free and

open internet.

-Joanne Kondratieff, Shawnee, OK

Dear FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, What you are about to do to the internet is unforgivable. It positively cannot come as news to you that,

with what you are proposing, the internet providers will abuse their power and all of us consumers will get screwed in the end. The FCC is

supposed to REGULA TE the communications industry, not enable it for further evil. If you can't see that that's what you're doing, then you

clearly are blind to your own conflict of interest and need to step down as chairman of the FCC. You are failing spectacularly at protecting the

consumers.

-Sabrina Veksler, San Francisco, CA

Prevent companies that are monopolies from providing lousy service AND slow service. PRESERVE INTERNET NEUTRALITY.

-Sunil Misra, Columbia, MD

Foxes put in charge of the henhouse. And for only $18 million. How low can we go? Thanks, Washington.

-Mr. Paul Herzoff, Emeryville, CA

Free Press

It's All About Freedom For All NotJust Freedom For Those Who Wish To Dominate & Control Others.

-Brian Ringrose, Sydney,

DEMOCRACY DEPENDS UPON IT!

-William J Ryan, Valley Stream, NY

Don't reward the major players. They are already in the process of merging which will lead to unfair pricing. We have a great communication

highway, don't screw it up for the little guy. Keep it neutral and for all.

- Robert Anschutz, Wimberley, TX

Start over. Classify ISPs as common carriers. To call anything else an open internet is misleading.

-Mike Mooney, plymouth, MN

Please, please, PLEASE keep net neutrality!

-Jennifer Steffen, Redondo Beach, CA

You guys are corrupt and it's obvious to anyone paying attention.

-Doug S McDonald, SEA TILE, WA

I believe in free speech.

-Emily A Ingrao, Behnont, CA

Dear FCC, I am a small business owner. I am a part of a team of amazing software developers. What we can contribute to the world has not

even been realized yet Net Neutrality is important for us to bring our talents and ideas to the world. I am certain there are many many more

companies like mine that are poised to bring wonderful tools and capabilities to the world. I really can't believe I'm even having to write this to

you. Seriously, you guys, don't be evil. Thank you, Lauren O'Meara

-Lauren OMeara, Franklin, 1N

Our Democracy depends on a vibrant economy and the participation of new businesses and entrepreneurs which have exploded because of

Net Neutrality. One More example of "elitism" and monetary discrimination which favors BIG CORPORATIONS must STOP. Reclassify

ISPs as common carriers.

-Ms. Elaine Wilson, Tormce, CA

It is vital to freedom of speech and artistic expression that net neutrality is perfected once and for all.

-Mikki Chalker, Binghamton, NY

Corporations are now people! If I actually knew any people like many corporations, I would call !hem bastards. They do not need any more

power over our lives. Neutral means neutral.

- Richard Wagner, Vista, CA

Net Neutrality is about fairness and a vibrant growing society.

- Ken Gorrell, saint louis, MO

more monopoly's people should have an affordable choice

-Robert Eick, Scotch Plains, NJ

Free Pttss

Don't take away the only level playing field left. The internet must be equally available lo all. Working class americans and their families

deserve the same consideration as greedy ISPs. The internet is fine, not broken. This is just another power grab to squeeze more and more

money out of us and to control the information we can access. DONT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!

- Marianne Hart, Beaverton, OR

New Neutrality works, and the 99% don't need the cable companies taking even more of our money to give us mediocre service.

-Carol Williams, Santa Fe, NM

The FCC must throw out its rules and instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

- Jack David Marcus, New York, NY

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's plan would let Internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with

fast lanes for those who can afford the extra fees and a slow lanes for the rest of us. These companies would have the power to pick winners

and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. Throw out these

FCC rules and recla5sify ISPs as common carriers instead .

-Ms. Carol Savary, San Francisco, CA

Do not allow the cable companies to determine internet policy. Please keep the net neutral.

-Jane H Beattie, Ketchum, ID

This is yet another case of the guy with the bigger wallet turning america into less of the land of the free, and more of the home of the poor

man getting screwed. There is absolutely ZERO reason to take away net neutrality other than your attempt to get the cable/internet companies

to line your pockets!

-Robert Milam, Vine Grove, KY

If the USA is a democratic nation, it needs open communication, which in colonial times meant the right to assemble and a free press. In

today's times, liberty and justice in a democratic nation means open internet or net neutrdlity.

-Kathleen Bobb, WESTERLO, NY

The proposed new rules would Jet Internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon create a two-tiered Internet, with fast lanes for

those who can afford the extra fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us. These companies would have the power to pick winners and losers

online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. Throw out these rules and

instead reclassify ISPs as common carriers.

-Neil Swanson, Warrenton, VA

WE DO NOT WANT TWO MONOPOLIES CONTROLLING INTERNEf ACCESS AND SPEED. DO NOT ALLOW NEW RULES

TO END NET NEUTRALITY ON BEHALF OF COMCAST AND TIE WARNER. Blake Overall Fairfield, Iowa

-Mr. Blake Overall , fairfield, IA

There are many sites I use that would not be able to afford a faster connection. DONT CHANGE THE INTERNET! PRES ER VE NET

NEUTRALITY.

-Laura Joseph, Pasadena, CA

The Obama/Wheeler takeover of the FCC is a typical government selJout to the biggest corporations. Can the rest of the commission see the

deplorable state of our internet (low speed, high cost) and rule for maintaining parity and then more speed for the same outlay?

-Dennis Holz, Leucadia, CA

Free Press

Without net neutrality the Internet will be th