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This is the current signature count for the petition to restore Net Neutrality. As you can see it has a very long way to go.

Come on people I know there are at least 64,000 of you on tumblr who haven’t signed this yet. Click here to do so

If you have already signed be sure to share the link so that the word will spread.

hey real talk for a second

the deadline for this petition is in THREE WEEKS

and it’s not even halfway to meeting the goal.

If it doesn’t meet the goal, IT’S OVER. THE PETITION IS REMOVED. THE END.

I know it might be a little annoying to take a whole two minutes out of your life to make an account and sign this, but that little annoyance pales in comparison to the fact that right now, MASSIVE CORPORATIONS NOW HAVE THE POWER TO CONTROL HOW THE INTERNET IS RUN

Please, DON’T sit back and think, “Oh, everyone else will sign it. I’ll just reblog.” No. There are literally THOUSANDS of people thinking the exact same thing. There’s a reason this post has almost 20,000 notes more than the number of signatures: It’s because people are liking and reblogging without signing it.

Don’t fall victim to the bystander effect. DO take this very, very seriously. The only requirement for signing is that you are 13 years or older. You don’t have to be a U.S. citizen to sign. So please, take the two minutes. Sign the petition. It’s the only hope we have to fix this.

Signal boost because this is the first I’ve heard of one that can be signed outside of the U.S. pleasepleaseplease do the thing.

Honestly I’ve been watching this petition since I signed it (around 80k sigs to go) and have been astonished at how slowly people have moved to sign it. 

If you value your internet experience at all, it would do you well to make your voice heard and do something about it.  Signing this petition isn’t the only thing, but it’s one step you could take. 

Okay so someone asked me, last time this went around, what exactly all of this means.  As I understand it, net neutrality means that service providers cannot charge for access to particular websites, but must allow neutral access to everything on the web.  If this is removed, they may be able to charge you specifically for accessing facebook, or tumblr, or twitter… or, worse, for stuff like markreads.net or any other non-corporate-affiliated website that doesn’t run off a platform like wordpress.  What this could mean is that the Internet would become something like an interactive version of cable TV, where you can pay for the basic websites, or for a hundred or a thousand websites, and those would be the only ones you’d be able to access.

Now, when you turn on your TV, you’ll notice that almost all the content comes from big companies with the money to run their own channel.  This is not how it is on the Internet, where anyone can build and run a website if they can afford the domain and the web hosting, and whether or not anyone has ever heard of it has no effect on whether or not it exists.  This allows you to have websites that are only viewed by a few, such as friends or family or people with your rare common interest, and also allows for the possibility that you may someday go viral and gain a larger audience.

However, if net neutrality were to be compromised, even your friends and family would have to pay for the privilege of viewing your website, and chances are that no one else would ever find it.  Everything we currently love about the Internet — the independent nature of it, the innovation, the ability to go wandering and stumble across stuff you hadn’t heard of before — might be ruined.  This is why net neutrality is important, and why you should definitely go sign that petition right now.