Thousands Braved The Cold Outside Verizon Stores Yesterday [telecom]

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By Janet Burns

Around the country yesterday, supporters of net neutrality rules took to the streets--specifically, those areas around Verizon stores--to re-emphasize the fact that voters from across the political spectrum want the rules kept intact for major financial, privacy, and free speech reasons.

Ahead of the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC) expected vote to ditch the Obama-era policies next Thursday, then (Dec. 14, 2017), thousands of Americans of all stripes turned out in the cold to spread the word, which the FCC has tried to suppress, while they still can.