What do I need to do to have a concrete affect on the outcome of this instead of just commenting here or in some other thread?
What you can do now to impact political processes in the near future (no policy is immutable, after all) is to work in your community to build consensus around policies you believe in, so that those policies are reflected in future decisions.
I don't know when, but at some point we as a country of citizens got really bad at understanding this, it seems like!
If anyone has ideas here I'd love to hear them.
- congress can preclude future congresses from revisiting issues
- policies can become so entrenched as 'precedent' that they're seen as the 'right way' to do things
our entire system is built against changing. That's why you don't see successful article V reform
The petition.org thing is useless.
Like the other poster said, though, these are the consequences of last novembers election. You won't undo what is happening now. You can just participate to stop it from happening again and reverse the course to the best of your ability in the future.
Right now, people have to vote for the least of two shitty candidates. Instead, we could vote for the ones who represent us the most without worrying about who will actually win.
This won't fix corporate corruption, which is the underlying cause of the attack on net neutrality, but it will certainly make representatives more beholden to their voters.