Staff Blog / Join Vimeo in supporting net neutrality
In July, we asked you to help us protect an open Internet. Today, we’re joining forces with our digital brethren including Etsy, Reddit, and Kickstarter, to once again ask that you help us fight the FCC’s proposed rule — one that would bring an end to the net neutrality we know and love.
This time, we’re asking you to call your Senators and tell them you’re against the FCC’s proposal.
To refresh your memory:
The FCC proposal would allow broadband providers to charge online companies like Vimeo to deliver traffic (like video uploads and plays) to their customers in a timely manner. We think this will create a two-tiered Internet — fast tubes for those who can afford to pay a hefty toll and slow tubes for everyone else — and will ultimately harm innovation and creative expression. As a result, we’re calling on the FCC to demand "net neutrality" — rules that prevent broadband providers from discriminating against content that runs through their pipes.
Independent creators and their audiences would also suffer from this two-tiered Internet world. If you, like us, want to keep a free and open Internet, please click the button above and let your voice be heard.
+ More from the Staff Blog Archive
107 Comments
Ice Block Plus
Thank you for posting the video and the helpful link. Here's hoping we can continue to beat this monster back! As April O'Neil said to whichever turtles were left alive to diffuse the bombs on the damn, "You have my support!"
1 More TV Plus
just called them and told them about our right to have net neutrality and they said they will give the message to the senator. Thanks for informing us about this and good luck.
Adam Siegel Plus
Just called and they said they would pass message on. Thanks Andrea.. you rock!
Falguni Kishore
Thank you for supporting this movement and posting for it.
Dean Kaiser
I am sick and tired of the America that 'we" the small people created being constantly taken away from us by the "big shot pencil pushers" (the guys that only think about "their" pockets). When will someone ever stand up again in America and bring America back? This is all really getting sick. I long for the good 'ol America so badly.
Putika
You are right.
Be HoPe
I agree… But it' not only in the U.S. … because also (here) in Europe, we have to stand up against the the multi-national companies (multi-nationals) and reClaim Our Rights ! ! ! … it's a constant struggle…
We – the so-called 99 percent – need to stick together and fight back against the huge corporations who are buying up the land, and the natural resources, while not caring one bit about the local population or the state of the eco-systems, animals etc. that exist in nature… To get a better understanding of what I'm saying here, please watch... "A World Without Water" (2006), "The Corporation" (2003), "FLOW: For Love of Water" (2008), "" (2008), "The Coca-Cola Case" (200x) & others like them… For more info, contact me @Facebook.
JP Pelc Plus
I understand the fear associated with little guys being taken over by big nasty corporations, but the discussion of all this net neutrality business is backwards. For one thing, whoever built and owns the tubes has the right to use them however they please. For another, net neutrality does not mean an "open" internet, it means a regulated one. The internet has been "open" since it was invented, and ISPs have always had the opportunity to deny higher speeds to certain sites and grant them to others, yet they never did this. So what's the fear? If we beg the government for command over the internet, we will just be limiting the greatest invention that we have seen in our lifetimes
Buell Robot
I disagree that since it has never happened before it won't happen in the future.
US telcos and cable operators would like nothing more than to be able to legitimately slow down and/or set up toll gates for competitors like Netflix, YouTube, or Vimeo. Without neutrality, you may end up paying a lot more than $60/year for your Vimeo plus membership.
A few links help illustrate this point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System#Nationwide_Monopoly and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias
JP Pelc Plus
At this moment technology is more advanced than it has ever been before, and it only continues to advance. Access to high-speed internet and ability to handle heavy bandwidth burdens are better than ever. Yet we are supposed to believe that for some reason if we don't take immediate action, right now is the time when ISPs will decide to limit their customers. Why?
Danne Brexton
I support Vimeo in net neutrality.,.add me to the list ! -and If you want to be private on the internet Use this;- mullvad.net/en/
shivafricology jaiho
the only thing to fear is fear itself; long live neutrality
mauricio mastropiero
How to support from Mexico?
Danniel Qeletti
Well, good for you.
What about the people here who have nothing to do with the u.s.?
It makes me SICK, the way a fascist super-power can decide things that shall harm ALL nations - but ONLY its own citizens (not much more than 4% of the World's total human-population!!) may have ANY say about that... Just like the people of the city of Rome running the entire Mediterranean...
Mike McHale
How to trouble shoot?
Sometimes videos play with no problem, sometimes they get choppy. I run speedtest.net and it says I am around my usual 3MB. I come back later, and the video plays fine. Is there a way to tell if vimeo just could not handle the load for free members (no complaint, love the site and community) or if my ISP decided to throttle?
Antonio Cariola
tutti corrono dietro ai soldi la vera felicita'sta'dietro alle piccole cose
Vaughn Baskin
Hey We're All Gonna Need A Much Bigger Help To Take A Stand Against The Effin' FCC!
Cam Plus
I don't have a senator as we are based in New Zealand, if you have any ideas on how we could help from the other side of the world please let us know.
Ryan Murray
This video makes me laugh. Of course I support net neutrality 100%. But Vimeo is a little hypocritical here. Net neutrality is all about not letting some people pay for better, faster access while letting others suffer through slow loading times. And yet Vimeo does this exact thing! The fact that I can only upload one HD video a week, and have to wait through an extra wait time for my videos to be processed, compared to people who can pay to have unlimited access with much faster speeds? I fully support net neutrality but I think Vimeo should really think about adopting those same policies.
zhe yan
a little creepy when i saw this -_-