Today people will have their first chance to speak directly to all five FCC commissioners about the irresponsible and discriminatory behavior of Comcast and other companies who want to block and filter the Internet. At Stanford University, hundreds of people are gathered to speak out about the importance of an open Internet for education, innovation, competition, and free speech.

But you don’t have to be at Stanford to make your voice heard too. Join the conversation right here as Free Press staffers blog live while the hearing unfolds.

But first, let’s revisit the timeline that put Comcast on trial:

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  Last fall, the Associated Press revealed that Comcast had stopped people from sharing legal files with each other. Thousands of people wrote to the FCC demanding that Comcast be held accountable. After a petition from Free Press, the FCC announced it was starting an investigation.
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  In February, the FCC held a public hearing in Boston and Comcast packed the room with paid seat-warmers who fell asleep in the front row while local citizens were blocked from entering the room. Comcast admitted this after the hearing, but never apologized to the people of Massachusetts. But even with Comcast’s efforts to derail the hearing, most of the testifying experts trounced the corporation for their discriminatory behavior.
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  In March, the FCC announced another hearing at Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Comcast responded by announcing a new partnership with BitTorrent (the company Comcast had been blocking). After months of denial, why does Comcast need to partner with a group they supposedly weren’t blocking?
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  In April – just two days before the Stanford hearing – Comcast announced plans to partner with Pando (another file sharing website) to write a “Bill of Rights and Responsibilities” for the Internet. Who made Comcast the judge, jury, and executioner of the web?

Today. It’s your turn to join hundreds of people on the ground in California to make your voice heard. Tune in to the FCC webcast here: http://www.fcc.gov/realaudio/#apr17 and join the conversation on our live blog.