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Grassroots effort to tap into cash from the sale of public airwaves will continue through the summer and into 2018 if need be, Free Press Action Fund organizers say.

Make no mistake: Net Neutrality is one of the defining workers’ rights and civil rights issue of our time. We all know the internet is driving changes in culture, politics and the economy. It is also one of the key spaces where workers can organize.

If you like being able to access any website you choose and have it load at the same speed as any other site, then guess what? You are a fan of Net Neutrality.

Remember the old days of dial-up, when it could take hours, sometimes days, to load a video clip online? Well, get used it — that could once again be the reality of surfing the web if Net Neutrality regulations are abolished.

If there's anything lawmakers should have learned from activists over the past few years it's this: Do not make the internet angry.

Open-internet activists hailed Wednesday's massive online demonstration of support for Net Neutrality as a major success, but warned that the fight to stop the Trump administration's plan to dismantle the Net Neutrality rules is only just beginning.

There is no question that the American people favor Net Neutrality. They are literally flooding the Federal Communications Commission with pleas for preservation of “the First Amendment of the internet.”

"The existing Net Neutrality protections put internet users in the driver's seat and keep big cable and phone companies from controlling what you see and do online," said Free Press Action Fund Campaign Director Candace Clement.

There's one issue that Americans agree on. Regardless of income and education levels, race, gender or even whether they're Democrats or Republicans, Americans want strong Net Neutrality. Unfortunately, President Trump's picked man at the head of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, is well on his way to destroying Net Neutrality

Today's digital protest is an important effort to help preserve the Net Neutrality rules that help uphold a free and open internet. It's also not enough. Keeping the current rules on the books — or replacing them with new, enforceable rules from Congress — requires steady pressure, ongoing on public officials. Here's what you can do today and in the weeks, months and even years to come.