'Drop Everything and Take Action': Activists Issue Clarion Call to Save the Internet

As a countdown begins, time to show "FCC largest protest it's every seen" say defenders of net neutrality

- Jon Queally, staff writer

There's no time like the present to save the future of the internet.

That's the message from the nation's largest and most active organizations focused on the issue of online freedom and net neutrality.

Following this week's news that FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is preparing a push to pass new rules that would allow the nation's internet providers to create a two-tiered, two-speed internet by allowing corporations to pay for privileged access to broadband "fast lanes," the group's opposed to the move are warning the American people that if they don't act quickly and aggressively, the open internet they know and love could be destroyed forever.