STATE OF PLAY: Update on the ferocious battle to save Daily Kos

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Here’s the bottom line on net neutrality: Without real net neutrality built on solid legal authority, Big Telecom will carve the internet into “fast lanes” and “slow lanes.”

This doesn’t seem like a big deal to some people, but it is. Big corporations are going to be able to afford the fast lane, while start-ups and small businesses are left in the slow lane—effectively destroying the equal playing field that makes the internet such a powerful tool for innovation.

Now imagine what it will do for our politics and media: Newscorp can afford to put Fox News in the fast lane, but independent progressive sites like Daily Kos (annual budget of just $3 million) might not be able to afford that.

We’ve thrown everything we have at the FCC so far. An astonishing 260,946 Daily Kos members generated 484,096 actions—that’s emails sent directly to the FCC, emails sent to members of Congress, emails sent to the White House and more—just in the past few weeks. But with yesterday’s FCC vote to move forward and explore a proposal that could potentially end net neutrality as we know it, I can promise you that we’re only just getting started.

Can you chip in $5 to Daily Kos so that we can expand our campaign to preserve real net neutrality in the months ahead?

Can’t contribute? Please take just one minute to send an email to President Obama asking him to honor his pledge to preserve net neutrality.

Keep fighting,
Rachel Colyer, Daily Kos