Guys!

Our protests last week WORKED!

After months of intense public pressure, the second largest online protest in history, and millions of emails and phone calls, President Obama just released an incredibly strong statement calling for the FCC to protect net neutrality using full Title II reclassification. [1]

Yeah, you heard us right. The President of the United States just endorsed our position.

This is game-changing. We’ve been hearing for weeks from our allies in DC that the only thing that could stop FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler from moving ahead with his sham proposal to gut net neutrality was if we could get the President to step in. So we did everything in our power to make that happen. We took the gloves off and played hard, and now we get to celebrate a sweet victory.

With your help, we organized nationwide emergency protests in 30 cities last week, and with just a few days notice we turned out more than 100 people in front of the White House for a spirited rally, capturing media headlines. [2] This is the power of the Internet! With a tiny budget and just a few staff, we are giving some of the wealthiest and most powerful corporate monopolies in the world a run for their money.

We’re closer than ever to winning the fight for REAL net neutrality once and for all, but we need to spend all of our time in the coming weeks organizing -- not fundraising.

Today’s statement from the President changes everything, but this fight isn’t over yet. FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler responded quickly, claiming he needs more time, and implying he might have to push back the FCC’s expected December 11th vote.

Those are stalling tactics. The FCC has had plenty of time to discuss the various options available to them. We need to refocus our campaign on the FCC to make sure that Wheeler – a former Cable lobbyist – doesn’t delay the vote in a last ditch attempt to sneak through rules that his buddies at Comcast and Verizon can live with. Time is of the essence.

We’re all in on this fight and we’ve proven that we can win it. We’ve got major strategic plans for this week including more protests on Thursday (info coming soon!)

We’re so close! I am so personally proud of every single person on this list. Whether you can make a donation today or not, we LOVE you and are honored to be in this fight with you.

Thanks for all you do,

-Evan, Tiffiniy, Holmes, Kevin, Jeff, and Jessica

Fight for the Future

P.S. It’s crucial that we ratchet up the pressure on Tom Wheeler and the FCC now, and this morning our friends at PopularResistance.org pulled off an amazing action that does just that. At 6:55am they blockaded Tom Wheeler’s driveway just as he was getting into his car. After a while walked down the street, presumably to take public transit to work. Talk about a slow lane.

P.P.S. If you watch the Obama statement closely, you’ll see many moments where he incorporates the memes and talking points we’ve built, together, as part of battleforthenet.com campaign, from the “buffering” joke at the beginning to the way he talks about this as cable companies vs. the public. Obama’s statement has this movement’s fingerprints all over it, and it wouldn’t have happened without our work together. We’re proud. You should be too. I can’t think of a better time to make your first donation to this movement.

    “Net Neutrality: President Obama's Plan for a Free and Open Internet” http://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality

    “Breaking: Emergency Protests” https://www.battleforthenet.com/#protest

I don't have too much to add, besides re: the P.S. - what a dick move.

And with regards to the tx pool, it seems like most of them are pretty large, like over 10-20 kb. Maybe that has something to do with it?

I've suggested the self-proclaimed MEW overlords dump their XMR, buy BBR, and become the BEW.

Spam has stopped for some time now, but there are some transactions stuck in the pool for some reason.

Looks like a script running with mixin count = 4

Stress test for the blockchain  I think we need to push per kb fees update soonish.