On Wednesday, nearly 200 technology companies, internet activist groups, media outlets and other organizations will participate in the Internet-Wide Day of Action To Save Net Neutrality.
The protest, on July 12, is aiming to bring awareness to the actions the Federal Communications Commission plans to take to dismantle net neutrality, a founding principle of the internet that requires all internet service providers (ISPs) to treat all data delivered to customers equally.
In 2015, the FCC enacted the Open Internet Order, which solidified net neutrality and made it against federal policy for ISPs to slow down one site in favor of another or to block content entirely.
The new leadership of the FCC, under President Donald Trump’s administration, aims to rescind the Open Internet Order—which opponents believe could allow ISPs to take advantage of the lax rules.
Websites across taking part in the Day of Action will display alerts to people visiting them that will alert them of what might happen without net neutrality. Some of the examples include, “Sorry, we’re stuck in the slow lane,” “This is the web without net neutrality,” “This site has been blocked by your ISP,” and “Please upgrade your plan to proceed.”
Several major companies you’ll recognize have agreed to join the protest including Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Vimeo, PornHub, Reddit, Imgur, and more.
Recently, a group of more than 130 YouTube personalities and online video creators sent a letter to the FCC that said ending net neutrality would have an “outsized impact on our field and jeopardize our livelihood.”
Here is a list of many of the companies and activism organizations participating in the protest. To learn more about the Internet-Wide Day of Action To Save Net Neutrality click here.
- Fight for the Future
- The Center for Media Justice
- Free Press Action Fund
- Demand Progress
- Amazon
- Etsy
- Kickstarter
- Netflix
- Vimeo
- GitHub
- Internet Association
- Private Internet Access
- Y Combinator
- Mozilla
- Pornhub
- OkCupid
- 18MR.Org
- ACLU
- The Action Network
- Acquia
- Adafruit
- AdBlock
- ABP
- American Library Association
- Anchor Free
- American Sustainable Business Council
- The Authors Guild
- Bandcamp
- Best VPN
- BigChain DB
- BitTorrent
- Bitbucket
- Bloody Disgusting
- Boing Boing
- Burlington Telecom
- CC Mixer
- Center For Democracy & Technology
- Change.org
- Checkout.com
- Chess.com
- CiviCrm
- Codecademy
- Color of Change
- Common Cause
- Consumer Reports
- Consequences of Sound
- Coworker.org
- Creative Commons
- Credo
- Daily Kos
- Deviant Art
- Discourse
- Discord
- Digital Ocean
- Digital West
- Democracy For America
- Dread Central
- Dream Host
- Dribble
- Dropbox
- DuckDuckGo
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Engine
- Exaptive
- Experts Exchange
- Fark.com
- Funny or Die
- Golden Frog
- Global Network Systems
- Greenpeace
- Heart Mob
- Internet Creator’s Guild
- IFixIt
- Imgur
- Internet Archive
- Interplanetary Database
- IPFS
- IP Vanish VPN
- Kink.com
- LookFar
- Linode
- Liberty VPS
- Mag-Net
- Magentic
- March for Net Neutrality
- Mitu
- Many Vids
- Media Alliance
- Media Mobilizing Project
- Medium
- Metal Sucks
- The Michael Trimm Show
- Minds
- MoveOn.org
- MPower Change
- The Main Street Alliance
- Name Cheap
- The Nation
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- NDIA
- NewGrounds.com
- The National Hispanic Media Coalition
- Noise Aware
- Nextdoor
- OFA
- Open Democracy
- Open Media
- Open Technology Institute
- Our Revolution
- Optimizely
- O’Reilly
- Open Source Initiative
- Plantir.net
- Pantheon
- Patook
- Patreon
- Public Resistance.org
- PornMD
- Progressive Change Campaign Committee
- ProtonMail
- Plays.tv
- Priceeonomics
- Plos
- Public Knowledge
- Race Forward
- Rainforest Action Network
- Redfin
- Red Tube
- Rock the Vote
- Shapeways
- Simple In/Out
- Slashdot
- Slickdeals
- Sonic
- SongMeanings.com
- SourceForge
- Soundcloud
- Sovrn
- Spoitify
- Stack Over Flow
- Start Mail
- Start Page
- Tastemade
- Tanaza
- Think Geek
- Ting
- Team Snap
- Tech Age
- Top 10 VPN
- Tunnel Bear
- Twilio
- Urban Dictonary
- Union Square Ventures
- Venture Beat
- Vice Impact
- Vivaldi
- Voqal
- Vypr VPN
- Wanderu
- Witness
- Women’s March
- World Wide Web Foundation
- Working Narratives
- Writers Guild of America – East
- Writers Guild of America – West
- YouPorn
- Zapier
- ZenMate
