Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality

The **Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality** is an event on July 12, 2017, in which various organizations and individuals advocate for net neutrality in the United States. The event is a response to plans by Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit V. Pai to end United States government policies which establish net neutrality. Fight for the Future convened the event and many organizations are contributing by doing activism.

## Goals

The event seeks to contact members of Congress and the FCC. The protest notes that Ajit V. Pai is formerly from Verizon, a company which opposes net neutrality.

## Participants

The first participants joined at the event's announcement on June 6, 2017.

* Amazon
* Facebook
* Google
* Netflix
* Pornhub
* Twitter
* Reddit
* American Civil Liberties Union
* Greenpeace
* American Library Association
* Center for Media Justice
* Demand Progress
* MoveOn.org
* Organizing for Action
* Mozilla Foundation
* Kickstarter
* Etsy
* Vimeo
* Y Combinator
* GitHub
* Private Internet Access
* Pantheon
* Bittorrent Inc.
* Shapeways
* Nextdoor
* Patreon
* Dreamhost
* CREDO Mobile
* xHamster
* Kink.com
* RedTube

Tumblr was notably absent as a participant considering its history of advocating for net neutrality. Following Verizon's 2017 purchase of Tumblr's parent company, Yahoo!, it adopted Verizon's political positions against net neutrality.

Netflix commented at the start of the campaign that they would not participate. Soon after, Netflix changed course and decided to support the campaign.

## Reactions

*Wired* commented that the activism was a result of opposing sides of large organizations, with traditional telecom organizations as the target of protest and new media organizations as the protestors.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neff, Lisa (19 June 2017). "Worldwide web action planned to defend net neutrality". *Wisconsin Gazette*.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Rushe, Dominic (6 June 2017). "Net neutrality: Amazon among top internet firms planning day of action". *The Guardian*.
3. ↑ Roberts, Jeff John (6 June 2017). "Amazon Just Changed the Net Neutrality Debate". *Fortune*. Time Inc.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Statt, Nick (7 July 2017). "Facebook and Google will participate in next week’s big net neutrality protest". *The Verge*. Vox Media.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Breland, Ali (15 June 2017). "Netflix to join net neutrality 'day of action'". *TheHill*.
6. ↑ Cole, Samantha (14 June 2017). "Pornhub Will Show Its 75 Million Daily Visitors Why Net Neutrality Matters". *Motherboard*. Vice Media.
7. ↑ Breland, Ali (22 June 2017). "Twitter joins pro-net neutrality 'Day of Action'". *TheHill*.
8. ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 Brodkin, Jon (6 June 2017). "Amazon and Reddit try to save net neutrality rules in “day of action”". *Ars Technica*.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Cole, Samantha (22 June 2017). "Porn Companies Tell Us Why the End of Net Neutrality Will Make Porn Boring". *Motherboard*. Vice Media.
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Tiffany, Kaitlyn (21 June 2017). "Verizon is killing Tumblr’s fight for net neutrality". *The Verge*.
11. ↑ Cox, Kate (31 May 2017). "Netflix Doesn’t Care As Much About Net Neutrality Anymore Because It’s Big Enough Not To". *Consumerist*. Consumer Reports.
12. ↑ Snider, Mike (6 June 2017). "Amazon plans 'day of action' for Net neutrality — but not Netflix". *USA TODAY*.
13. ↑ Morran, Chris (15 June 2017). "Netflix Changes Its Mind, Decides Maybe It Does Care About Net Neutrality Again". *Consumerist*. Consumer Reports.
14. ↑ Ramspott, Frank (22 June 2017). "Why Net Neutrality Matters". *www.wired.com*.

## Further reading

* Greer, Evan (6 June 2017). "Major web companies and public interest groups announce Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality". *Fight for the Future*.  This is the original press release announcing the event.