Battle for the Net has the details about what the September 10th Internet Slowdown is and how to participate.
You're our only hope.
This is the time to go big, visible, and strong--that's the only way we can actually win this fight. We all need to get as many people in our respective audiences motivated to do something. We can make this epic, but only if you help. We need companies to be frontrunners, leaders, and heroes on this, that's the key ingredient to raising the bar and making sure everyone goes big.
We realize it's a big ask, but this is the kind of bad internet legislation that comes along (or gets this close to passing) once a decade or so. If it passes we'll be kicking ourselves for decades--every time a favorite site gets relegated to the slow lane, and every time we have to rework or abandon a project because of the uncertain costs paid prioritization creates. Doing the most we can right now seems like the only rational step.
Several top websites -- including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare, Wordpress, Vimeo, reddit, Mozilla, Imgur, Meetup, Cheezburger, Namecheap, Bittorrent, Gandi.net, StartPage, BoingBoing, and Dwolla -- announced that they will be joining more than 35 advocacy organizations and hundreds of thousands of activists in a day of action that will give a glimpse into what the Internet might look like if the FCC's proposed rules go into effect. The protest comes just 5 days before the FCC's next comment deadline on September 15th.
(Score: 2) by meisterister on Friday September 05 2014, @10:16PM
How about instead of some useless loading graphic, all of the sites throttle themselves to 56k? The first thing to load should be a simple plaintext message that tells the user about what's going on.
(May or may not have been) Posted from my K6-2, Athlon XP, or Pentium I/II/III.
(Score: 3) by darkfeline on Saturday September 06 2014, @05:15AM
On the one hand, that would be extremely effective. On the other hand, that would be too effective. I wouldn't even be surprised if purposefully throttling important services is marginally/completely illegal due to the amount of damage/lost revenue it would cause. Of course, this would further emphasize why net neutrality is so important, but the finger pointing would most likely take priority over the rational response (of supporting net neutrality).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 06 2014, @09:18AM
I agree this is what should be done. A preview if you will.
Want to see how bad it can get? Just sit back and don't do anything and you'll find out...