Broadband Access

The Internet is the cornerstone of 21st century democracy - it's how we learn about and debate the issues of the day. It's how we organize to make change. If the FCC surrenders on the core Open Internet principles, that would allow Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to create fast lanes for the deep pocketed few and stifle our ability to connect and communicate online.

Municipal broadband is the radical idea that consumers should have choice – and big corporate ISPs will stop at nothing to kill it.

Corporate lobby ALEC is supporting proposed Comcast's plan to merge with Time Warner Cable

Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner Cable must be stopped. Allowing the nation’s largest cable operator gobble up its next largest rival would be a disaster.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the White House seeking a meeting with the president, former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and Free Press President and CEO Craig Aaron warn that rules pending before the Federal Communications Commission “undermine Net Neutrality and imperil the future of the open Internet.”

When the Federal Communications Commission’s website crashed – yet again, on Tuesday – the last day to file Net Neutrality comments, a pair of Common Cause interns crossed DC in a thunderstorm to turn in hard copies of thousands of comments from members and activists.