FCC Protestors Vow to Stay Until Net Neutrality Vote

PopularResistance.org and Fight for the Future organized a protest and camp-out in front of (and to the side of) the Federal Communications Commission’s DC headquarters, demanding the FCC protect the Internet by applying common carrier regulations.

At press time they were still there and pledging to remain until the May 15 vote on the new rules.

Margaret Flowers from PopularResistance.org said she had been there since the morning of May 7 and that the group, which she said was growing, would be there until the FCC’s May 15 vote on the new rules. Flowers said Code Pink was helping out, as was Free Press, and that Occupy Wall Street planned to join the protest.

The goal is to get the FCC to classify Internet access under Title II. “We want the vote to include reclassifying the Internet as a common carrier service,” she said.