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Omar Nawaz puts up a flag on Page Mill Road." title="netneutrality24" alt="Nancy Mancias of Code Pink watches as Omar Nawaz puts up a flag on Page Mill Road." credit="James Tensuan / The Chronicle"> </a> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function () { Galleria.run('#galleria_25329101', { debug: false, gallery_id: "galleria_25329101", galleryTitle: "Net neutrality protest", //dataSource: nggallery_data_25329, width: "832", height: "0.5625", imageCrop: false, thumbCrop: false, thumbnails: true, autoplay: false, showSharing: true, clicknext: true, showCounter: true, imagePan: false, _toggleInfo: false, showImagenav: true, lightbox: false, showInfo: true, _showFullscreen: false, _showPopout: false, _showProgress: true, _showTooltip: false, transition: "fade", transitionSpeed: "400", thumbEventType: "click", swipe: is_mobile || false } );}); Galleria.ready(function() { this.bind('thumbnail', function(e) { e.thumbTarget.alt = e.galleriaData.description; }); 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of his commitment to preserving net neutrality.</p> <div class="ndn_embed" style="width:600px;height:338px;"></div> <p>But Obama’s appointments to the Federal Communications Commission don’t back up that commitment. In May, three Democrats he appointed to the agency voted to allow broadband carriers to provide an online “fast lane” for those who want to pay for the privilege — thus creating a two-tiered Internet.</p> <p>As former FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140727224300/http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Michael-Copps-former-FCC-commissioner-on-net-5626535.php">another Democrat, told us</a>, Obama “seems to be in the back seat now. He may be in the rumble seat of the old Model-T. I don’t know where he is.”</p> <div style="width:310px;" class="wp-caption alignleft"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140727224300/http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/Copps18_LKM_03.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-32825" alt="Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps derides President Obama's weak effort to preserve net neutrality during a visit to the San Francisco Chronicle" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20140727224300im_/http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/files/2014/07/Copps18_LKM_03-300x207.jpg" width="300" height="207"></a> <p class="wp-caption-text">Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps derides President Obama’s weak effort to preserve net neutrality during a visit to the San Francisco Chronicle</p> </div> <p>Near the intersection of Page Mill and Arastradero Roads in Los Altos, more than 100 protesters agreed. They waved signs saying, “Don’t kill the Internet” and held a brief rally where<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140727224300/http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2014/07/03/fight-over-net-neutrality-gets-racial/"> Color of Change</a> founder James Rucker, Common Cause’s Ellen Grieco and Electronic Frontier Foundation intellectual property director Corynne McSherry spoke.</p> <p>Obama “has abdicated his responsibility on this issue, sitting on the sidelines,” said MoveOn.org organizer Victoria Kaplan. 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