--- title: Net Neutrality: President Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Vote description: "I wish I could upvote every one of you," the President wrote, after the FCC approved strict net neutrality rules canonical: https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-27T00:11:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:46:06.810Z article:section: Politics og:title: Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules og:description: "I wish I could upvote every one of you" og:url: https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules twitter:description: "I wish I could upvote every one of you" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 27, 2015 12:11 AM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Feb 27, 2015 12:11 AM UTC President Barack Obama knows his Reddit slang. In a handwritten note, the Commander-in-Chief said he wished he could “upvote” every one of the Redditors who commented on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s net neutrality rules amid the hard-fought battle. > [](https://twitter.com/Alex44/status/571066745768710145) On Thursday, the agency [approved](http://time.com/3723722/fcc-net-neutrality-2/) the strongest rules yet in a vote split along party lines. “This would not have happened without the activism and engagement of millions of Americans like you. And that was a direct result of communities like reddit,” Obama said in a longer note posted in a Reddit [blog post](http://www.redditblog.com/2015/02/thank-you-reddit-your-efforts-led-to.html). Learn more about the FCC’s rules [here](http://time.com/3723722/fcc-net-neutrality-2/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/"},"headline":"Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules","datePublished":"2015-02-27T00:11:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:46:06.810Z","description":"\"I wish I could upvote every one of you\"","url":"https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3725106/obama-reddit-net-neutrality/","name":"Obama Thanks Redditors After FCC Approves Strict Net Neutrality Rules"}}]}] ```