In Protests of Net Neutrality Repeal, Teenage Voices Stood Out<br />“For students that have used an internet that is open<br />and without tolls their whole life, as complicated as net neutrality is, kids can get their heads around it pretty easily,” said John Lewis, the head of Gunston School, a private high school in Centreville, Md.<br />At Southside High School in Rockville Centre, N. Y., net neutrality dominated conversation in the lunchroom last week<br />and throughout the day of the vote, last Thursday as students checked for updates.<br />The repeal of net neutrality has gotten many of these teens politically engaged for the first time, with fears<br />that the dismantling of rules could open the door for broadband providers like AT&T and Comcast to distort the experience of accessing anything online with equal ease.<br />voted on net neutrality repeal last week, children and teenagers organized protests in Sioux Falls, S. D., and Keene, N. H.<br />They wrote letters and sent tweets to F. C.C.<br />Laurie Crowe, a high school history teacher in Kyle, Tex., tried to give an exam to 11th graders at Lehman High School last Thursday<br />but couldn’t get her students off their phones and laptops.<br />The Mundelein, Ill., high school junior then passed around a link to classmates for a website<br />that automatically placed calls, web comments and emails to the Federal Communications Commission, the agency that was moving to repeal the so-called net neutrality rules.
