Free Press Organizing FCC Protest

Free Press is promising hundreds of protesters will gather at the FCC's Washington headquarters May 15 to protest the new Federal Communications Commission open internet rules FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is planning to vote on.

They would be joining the handful of protesters who have been camped outside the building calling for the chairman to classify Internet access as a Title II service rather than try to restore the rules using existing authority to promote advanced telecommunications services. Free Press is pushing for Title II, too. “Chairman Wheeler is feeling the grassroots pressure against his pay-for-prioritization proposal. But he still isn’t giving Internet users the Net Neutrality protections they demand,” said Free Press president Craig Aaron.