User blog comment:AlexKawa/Let's Save The Internet!/@comment-32173189-20180719051442

While I'm glad you made this post and are passionate about NN (like myself and most Americans), it might be pointless. Mainly because we are dealing with a president and an FCC chairman who just doesn't care. When Obama's floated the idea of net neutrality, his FCC chairman Tom Wheeler held open hearings and allowed input from the public to help draft this proposal. While the current FCC chairman Ajit Pai held no open hearings on the matter of repealing NN, which drew the ire of the only two democrats on the committee. And while he did allow the public the give their input on the matter on the FCC's website he was quick to blame comments supporting NN as being submitted from outside sources (even going so far as claiming they were from other countries). When others wanted to investigate his claim he blocked any attempt at every opportunity. It appears he doesn't really care about his current job, based on the fact that any claim made by customers about potential throttling or blocking will now be handled by the FTC, rather than FCC, and is doing this to gain favor with his former employers AT&T so he can get a cushy lobbying job after his time at the FCC comes to an end.

As for getting congress, the senate, or the president involved, well that's where more trouble comes in. Both the house and the senate are controlled by republicans who generally like to champion less regulations when it comes to businesses and several have either voiced support for repealing NN seeing it as burdensome regulation on other businesses. So getting them to support this will be difficult even if constituents want it to happen, as they seem to be more preoccupied with keeping Trump happy rather than listening to the needs of the people. And lastly we have Trump, even if a measure where to pass the house and the senate, there is no guarantee that he would sign it, as it appears he mostly fixated on destroying Obama's legacy (such as gutting the Affordable Care Act, pulling out the Paris Climate Agreement and the Iran Deal) or being Putin's dog and apologist. Another option would be telling your congressmen or senators to pass NN laws for your own state or try to set up a municipal broadband. I'm sorry if what I said sounds bleak, but this is the current state of affairs facing NN right now and looks to be a very up hill battle.