Latino Groups to Deliver Tens of Thousands of Petition Signatures Urging FCC to Restore the Open Internet

Presente.org and the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) join a broad national coalition in delivering tens of thousands of petition signatures urging Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler to take immediate action to protect the open internet after a federal appeals court struck down a large portion of the FCC’s network neutrality rules.

The petitions will be included with the hundreds of thousands of signatures gathered collectively by a wide variety of groups set to be delivered at the nation’s capital. “We demand that the Obama Administration stop corporate control of the Internet,” said Arturo Carmona, Executive Director of Presente.org, which will contribute 16,000 signatures from its members. “Latinos are among the fastest-growing group of internet users. Latinos cannot afford to allow Verizon, AT&T and other telecommunications companies to either slow or block content and services they don’t like or speed up those they like. At a time when communications technology is ubiquitous, Internet freedom is fundamental to basic freedom.”