FCC Protests Over Net Neutrality Rule Planned

Civil disobedience Web site popularresistance.org was calling for picketers to meet at the Federal Communications Commission from noon to 5 p.m. to protest what they said was FCC Chairman Wheeler's effort to end network neutrality, with a rally at 5 p.m.

Appearing in a YouTube video, Sen Al Franken (D-MN) said that net neutrality is "under threat as it never has been" because he says Chairman Wheeler's new rule proposal would "permit a fast lane for content providers who are willing and able to pay for it."

He said that would mean big corporations would be even more dominant over mom and pop stores and that "big media companies will be able to get their version of the news to consumers faster." Sen Franken said it was time to rise up and save net neutrality so that it would not be taken away.