Red Alert for Net Neutrality: Senate will officially discharge resolution to block FCC repeal on May 9, forcing imminent vote
It’s official. The Senate will discharge a Congressional Review Act (CRA) petition on May 9th, forcing an imminent up or down vote on the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality.
Starting on May 9th until the Senate vote, major websites, subreddits, online forums, organizations and social media profiles plan to “go red” to sound the alarm and activate Internet users to contact their lawmakers en masse.
See the announcement page for the protest here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/redalert
Etsy, Foursquare, Mozilla, Tumblr, Private Internet Access, Gandi.net, and others have already joined. The groups behind BattleForTheNet.com will provide widget code, graphics, etc. to put your site or social media account on Red Alert starting may 9th.
The CRA resolution only needs a simple majority to pass, and we need to win big in the Senate in order to build momentum for an uphill battle in the House. This is an all hands on deck moment. Let’s do this.
sm0lshit on April 30th, 2018 at 18:52 UTC »
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KingofCraigland on April 30th, 2018 at 18:28 UTC »
Layman Translation:
Senate Democrats are forcing a vote in the Senate to allow themselves to vote on and block the FCC's decision to repeal Net Neutrality.
So first they need to vote on and pass the resolution. Once the resolution is passed (requiring a simple majority to succeed), the Senate will then be allowed to vote yes/no on whether the FCC's repeal will stand.
Chance of success in the Senate is fair. Chance of success in the House is in question.
datguyariel on April 30th, 2018 at 18:17 UTC »
This is like a triple negative. Please use English.