FreedomWorks Key Votes No on HR 5417 (Net Neutrality Bill)

Dear Representative:

On behalf of more than 800,000 FreedomWorks members nationwide, I write to urge you to VOTE NO on HR 5417 (Net Neutrality). Proposed ‘network neutrality’ legislation would give the federal government massive and unprecedented power over the Internet.

Taxes and government regulation slow down the growth of technological innovation. Government shouldn’t create rules that preemptively close off technological evolution and act as a disincentive to private investment.

The Internet is abuzz with hysterical cries from groups calling for government regulation like MoveOn.org that “Congress is now pushing a law that would end the free and open Internet as we know it.” But “the Internet as we know it” is actually one without network neutrality regulations. It’s MoveOn and its big-government allies want to end the Internet as it is by granting the federal government new expansive powers.

Concerns that anti-trust legislation is needed to ‘save’ the Internet are misguided. The FCC already has authority to regulate anticompetitive practices, and healthy competition exists in the broadband sector.

FreedomWorks will count your NO vote on HR 5417 (Net Neutrality) as a KEY VOTE when calculating the FreedomWorks Economic Scorecard. The FreedomWorks Economic Scorecard is used to determine eligibility for the Jefferson Award, which recognizes Representatives with voting records that support economic freedom.

Sincerely,

Matt Kibbe
President and CEO
FreedomWorks