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Today’s digital protest is an important effort to help preserve the Net Neutrality rules that help uphold a free and open internet. It’s also not enough. Keeping the current rules on the books — or replacing them with new, enforceable rules from Congress — requires steady pressure, ongoing on public officials. Here’s what you can do today and in the weeks, months and even years to come.

There is no question that the American people favor Net Neutrality. They are literally flooding the Federal Communications Commission with pleas for preservation of “the First Amendment of the internet.”

Imagine a world without internet freedom. This week, a major protest on the web will show what it would be like.

WASHINGTON — In less than 24 hours, a diverse coalition of Net Neutrality supporters will launch a nationwide “Day of Action” to mobilize people to demonstrate their support for the open-internet protections the Trump administration is trying to overturn.

The next big episode in America’s ongoing Net Neutrality saga occurs this week, and it already has a surprising twist.

The organizers of Wednesday’s Net Neutrality “day of action” blasted AT&T’s decision to join the campaign, calling it “outrageous and a blatant attempt to confuse the public.”

On July 12, participating websites will attempt to show users what the web would look like if Net Neutrality regulations are reversed.

Data from internet service providers themselves show that these firms have moved to offer people faster connections and better choices since the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules were adopted.

Cox Communications rolled out plans to enforce new data-overage fees.
“It’s really a penalty and not anything related to an actual cost,” says Matt Wood of Free Press, a digital rights advocacy group.

Activists, companies and organizations are collaborating to push back against the FCC’s vote to begin rolling back the Net Neutrality rules. Those rules, enacted under the Obama administration, block internet service providers from slowing down some sites or charging them extra fees to reach their audiences.