To the Editor:

Thank you Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., for your public service, and thank you for your response to my letter requesting your support. I differ with your response, and ask you again to please co-sponsor, sign the discharge petition for, and vote for the resolution of disapproval, under the Congressional Review Act, against the FCC action of December 2017 “Restoring Internet Freedom.”

“… unnecessary control over an entity …” is not what I seek. I’m asking for a level playing field. If so-called “Restoring Internet Freedom” is not reversed by our members of Congress, the big telecom spenders are free to crush their smaller competitors and impose whatever charges they can get away with, with no recourse for any average customer.

Competition should provide success to the best quality effort, not the size of the purse. So-called “Restoring Internet Freedom” takes away the rules of the competition and paves the way for abuse. That would be a disservice to the vast majority of your constituents.

You might argue that it’s a disservice to people who are able to pay more, that they not be allowed to drink the cleanest water, breathe the cleanest air, use the fastest internet. I would not buy that argument. Where will we be in a few years — further along the road to equity, or taking this massive reversal to inequity?

Bil Aylor

Bryson City