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On behalf of our activist community, I urge you to contact your senators and ask them to vote NO on the Restoring Internet Freedom Order CRA Resolution of Disapproval, S.J.Res. 52. This resolution would provide for congressional disapproval of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which repealed burdensome Title II Internet regulations.
[...] However, FreedomWorks, a conservative think tank, said it generated 650,000 messages to Congress on Monday to “preempt the left’s attempt to rally for heavy handed Internet regulation by the federal government,” spokesman Jon Meadows said in an email.
FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon issued the following statement on FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s speech announcing the next step in the Commission’s wireless infrastructure plan:
FreedomWorks activists took nearly 300,000 actions to pressure select members of Congress to defend Internet Freedom and uphold FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s “Restoring Internet Freedom” order.
Ahead of tomorrow's vote on the Restoring Internet Freedom Order proposed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, FreedomWorks wants to remind Congressional Republicans, including our right-of-center allies: the pro-free-market position is to support the Order. FreedomWorks Director of Policy Patrick Hedger explains:
Following House Judiciary’s approval of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), FreedomWorks Chief Economist and Vice President of Research Wayne T. Brough release the following statement:
Ahead of today’s speech by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, FreedomWorks Foundation is pleased to announce our support of the final proposed Restoring Internet Freedom Order—ending public utility regulation of Internet service providers under Title II of the Communications Act and repealing expansive and vague standards of practice that have crippled broadband investment.
FreedomWorks has joined other free market groups concerned about Title II regulations of the Internet to launch a new website to spur activism on the issue.