Fight for the Future Turns Focus on the Hill

With the Internet Day of Action targeting the Federal Communications Commission now receding in the rearview mirror, organizer Fight for the Future (FFTF) is shifting its focus to Congress in its fight to retain Title II-based Open Internet rules. According to campaign director Evan Greer, the group will start putting up billboards targeting legislators who support the proposal by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to roll back Title II reclassification of ISPs as common carriers -- Greer calls it dismantling net-neutrality protections -- and rethink the bright-line rules against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization. Greer said the group has crowdfunded $50,000 toward the billboards, which will start going up in "the coming weeks." The group took the same outdoor advertising tack when trying, ultimately unsuccessfully, to block Republicans' rollback of the related FCC broadband privacy regulations.