Al Frankin U.S. Senator Minnesota

Dear Ralph,

You’ve heard me talk about net neutrality — the idea that all online data has to be treated equally by Internet service providers (ISPs). Hopefullytomorrow, you’ll hear the President talk about it in his State of the Union address.

Net neutrality is one of the founding principles of the Internet, and it’s allowed small companies with big ideas to compete against more established firms.

All of those companies — from Google on down to the mom-and-pop store up the street — have to choose from among the same small pool of ISPs. And if net neutrality goes down, those ISPs are going to have enormous influence over what you can see and do online.

We’ve been working for a long time to preserve net neutrality — and we’ve succeeded in bringing net neutrality to national attention. Net neutrality is the foremost First Amendment issue of our time, and the FCC is expected to vote on its future soon. Join me in this last push — tell the FCC to protect net neutrality and promote a free and open Internet.

No matter where you’ll be tomorrow night, I hope you’ll be watching the President’s speech, because the opponents of net neutrality definitely will be.

Thanks for sticking with me in the fight for net neutrality.

Al