Fight for the Future reports via Common Dreams
Urban Dictionary, Bandcamp, Automattic (who run WordPress), and Discord are among latest major web platforms to join the Internet-Wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality scheduled for July 12th to oppose the FCC's plan to slash Title II, the legal foundation for net neutrality rules that protect online free speech and innovation.
[...] More than 50,000 people, sites, and organizations have signed on to the effort overall, and more announcements from major companies are expected in the coming days. Participants will display prominent messages on their homepages on July 12 or encourage users to take action in other ways, using push notifications, videos, social media, and emails.
See the announcement for the day of action here: https://battleforthenet.com/july12
See examples of what sites are doing on July 12 here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12#join
The effort is led by many of the grassroots groups behind the largest online protests in history including the SOPA blackout and the Internet Slowdown. The day of action will focus on grassroots mobilization, with public interest groups activating their members and major web platforms providing their visitors with tools to contact Congress and the FCC.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @12:01AM (8 children)
Net Neutrality==All packets are equal
This is typically referenced when the subject comes up:
The Internet Without Net Neutrality [imgur.com]
How does what you said align with that?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Troll) by jmorris on Friday July 07 2017, @12:27AM (5 children)
All packets are equal is even dumber than saying all people are equal.
Some packets ARE more important than others. Once you accept that truth, everything else follows.
If you object to a couple of quasi government monopoly ISPs owned by near monopoly media conglomerates deciding which packets are more important than we can have that discussion. If your proposed solution to a government created problem is more government control though, count me out.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Friday July 07 2017, @12:40AM (2 children)
Thanks for confirming you have no clue what this is about. It's not about more government regulation, it's about making sure your ISP, in its non-competing glory, doesn't force you to go through their affiliates.
People who actually learn about net neutrality (as opposed to dismissing Evil Lefties) overwhelmingly end up supporting it.
Do you dream of "Your Internet By HuffPo(TM) - Now With Free MSNBC, CNN, and 100MB per month cap on right-wing sites"?
Without Net Neutrality, that could be the only option you have unless you move.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @01:00AM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 08 2017, @01:17PM
And sometimes if you have more than one, their terms are copy/paste of each other...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @01:44AM
I don't know who pissed in your cornflakes this morning but after reading your posts in this thread I really wish it was me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:16PM
jmorris is, "special". More "special" than you, bro! He's awake! Sheeple no more, is jmorris! He wants rich people to throttle him!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @01:06AM (1 child)
And then you accept reality, which is this:
https://www.linode.com/pricing [linode.com]
You install a VPN and make all packets equal.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @01:47AM
Until any ISP or network provider marks your VPN traffic as unimportant and capped.