Maloney Introduces Legislation to Block FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality

I can at least applaud the fact that it puts the spotlight back on Congress, as opposed to the FCC. The FCC is a Republican regulatory agency. Like every regulatory agency, it's only minimally accountable to voters. The expectation that loud public outcry from Internet nerds would lead it to regulate like a Democratic agency is crazymaking.

Does it indicate all of them are corrupt? Because only corrupt shills oppose it willingly.

In the absence of activism, no; OTOH, there's an interaction between activism and a concrete legislative proposal to rally around; enough grassroots support in the districts of enough people who aren’t as strongly.committed to backing the anti-neutrality position as they are to their own re-election, and it could happen.

Moreover, even if it fails, the more attention that is drawn to it the more it helps raise the potential of net neutrality legislation being an platform issue in the 2018 elections; policy fights are rarely once-and-done battles, they are long wars, and some battles are more about preparing ground for the next battle than winning the war outright.

How do we make current broadband providers offer us modern internet services? Make them fear a world where they're competing with socialized last-mile infrastructure that doesn't need to make a profit.

An exception could exist for people who live on a gerrymandered district border or who are in the same state as a member seeking a state-wide office.

It's always better to call too.

The fight to save Net Neutrality will benefit from high-visibility attempts to bring the issue to light.

The point is that political efforts that seem “obviously doomed to failure” sometimes turn out to win, because unexpected groundswells of support force people who would not have supported them in the conditions that seemed likely at the time the measure was introduced to reconsider, either on the merits or based on their own political self-interest.