https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/13/16771626/new-york-public-library-net-neutrality-brooklyn-queens

This Thursday, the FCC is set to vote on a measure that would repeal net neutrality and transform the openness of the internet. The effort to repeal the Obama-era initiative has been mired with protests, a deeply flawed commenting period, and calls to halt the vote even from within the commission. A poll released just this week found that 83 percent of Americans do not approve of the move to kill net neutrality. Even Republican lawmakers are breaking from their party to call for legislation that keeps net neutrality in place.

Regardless, Ajit Pai’s FCC is expected to move forward with the vote tomorrow, and that has almost everyone who uses the internet concerned. Below is a letter from Anthony Marx, president and CEO of the New York Public Library; Linda Johnson, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Public Library; and Dennis Walcott, president and CEO of the Queens Library outlining how they feel the move to strip net neutrality could negatively impact the New York-area public library systems.