Do you ever google an IMDb page to win an argument? Watch a how-to video on YouTube? Catch up with friends on Facebook? Read the news online?

You want net neutrality to stick around.

Effectively, net neutrality regulates internet providers so that they can't tamper with your internet connection or activity on any basis. Before these laws came into affect, companies (like AOL in 2006) were actually blocking certain emails if they didn't agree with the content. If you think "fake news" is an issue now, just wait until internet providers get more control over what you can view in the first place.

If net neutrality gets repealed, one of the first things that's likely to happen is that the internet will be split into bundles, with each set of websites costing an extra fee to view. This extra cost will affect private consumers as well as businesses, and result in even higher costs for everyone.

Smaller companies that can't afford to pay for good connection to their websites will fail, and we'll be left with monopolies. Individuals who can't afford more than a basic internet package will be cut off from a major facet of life in this day and age. The internet is used heavily for job searches and daily life as well as maintaining connections to the world around us, so this separation would result in further socioeconomic segregation.

These are just some of the basics on what net neutrality means to us as users.

On December 14, 2017, the FCC will vote on whether or not to repeal net neutrality. We have until then to sway that vote to save the internet as we know it. It's an uphill battle, but there's still a chance.

Don't know where to start? Here are some suggestions.

Here are two petitions you can sign—one international and one exclusively US. After signing, make sure to verify via email. It may take a bit of time, half an hour or so, for you to receive it.

Additionally, as of September, you can use resistbot to fax your representatives via text. Just text "resist" to the number 504-09 and resistbot will hold your hand the whole way, asking your name and mailing address so it can find your representatives, and then turning your text into a fax to the right people.

Of course, spreading the word is also important, because the more people know about this issue, the more we can do to take action.

Let's take an active part in our government and the decisions that affect all of us. Tell friends. Sign petitions. Call representatives. Text resistbot. We can win this thing yet.