In November 2007, then 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama said the following:
“I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over.”
Then 2008 Presidential Candidate Barack Obama - November 2007
This entertaining yet extremely important 13 minute video describes the issue nicely:
Americans are now faced with FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to end network neutrality and authorize cable and phone companies to discriminate among websites with so called fast and slow lanes...the fast lanes only being available to the highest bidder ie his Corporate Cable Buddies.
How is this fair or democracy?
Bottomline, we want Wheeler's extremely undemocratic and unfair proposal reversed immediately.