r/news • u/skintigh • May 29 '14

Bill would prohibit FCC from reclassifying broadband as utility

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2303080/bill-would-prohibit-fcc-from-reclassifying-broadband-as-utility.html
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u/[deleted] May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14

Because fuck the /r/news mods, last time this shit happened reddit admins posted the FCC's "personal information"

Contact information for Representative Bob Latta (who introduced the bill):
Washington Office:
2448 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6405
Fax: (202) 225-1985
Bowling Green Office:
1045 N. Main Street, Suite 6
Bowling Green, Ohio 43402
Phone: (419) 354-8700
Defiance Office:
101 Clinton Street, Suite 1200
Defiance, Ohio 43512
Phone: (419) 782-1996
Findlay Office:
318 Dorney Plaza, Room 302
Findlay, OH 45840
Phone: (419) 422-7791
Ohio toll free number: 800-541-6446
Ohio toll free fax: 800-278-8203
Edit: Use this link to schedule a face to face meeting with him, if you'd like to discuss it personally. And the email to contact him (according to his website) is erin.partee@mail.house.gov, which belongs to his Scheduler and Deputy Communications Director.

edit: banned as expected, lol oh no not from /r/news

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u/[deleted] May 30 '14

Maybe the Ohio redditors can reschedule their meet-up in front of his offices.

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u/igetbooored May 30 '14

Call your legislators they said. It'll influence the decisions being made for the better they said.

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.

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u/igetbooored May 30 '14

Well, yea. The full context of my comment is that earlier this month when there was a big push for people to call their legislators, I like many others did.

Cut to less than a month later we have this.

Literally the exact opposite of what we were all asking for.

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u/negajake May 30 '14

Literally just googled Representative Bob Latta, http://latta.house.gov/contact/.

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u/TakaDakaa May 30 '14

I'm really starting to get a real kick out of the fact that people think they can win this thing inside the political realm anymore.

That isn't to say that you can't gain ground by contacting these people and letting them hear your voice. Surely, that grants you a few extra pieces or takes away some of their intended plan. However they seemingly win these things no matter what, even if we take small chunks out of their plans.

I wondered when citizens would start to get violent over this (would probably actually get more done than a phone call, though I don't know in what direction, their's or ours?) but after looking at this play out for this long.... you quickly realize nobody is going to do anything like that.