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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday July 06 2017, @09:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the let-your-voice-be-heard dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday July 07 2017, @04:25PM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday July 07 2017, @04:25PM (#536161)

    Netflix and Amazon charge ten bucks for all-you-can-eat, which makes people cancel their $50 cable bill.
    Netflix might be able to pay 3 or 5 bucks to the ISP (the cable guy) per subscriber per month to be a "channel", aka not get throttled.

    Tell me: which cable exec is gonna take the 5 bucks, rather than cap Netflix/Amazon at 100MB/mo until the disgusted customers get back on the $50 plan?

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday July 07 2017, @05:02PM (1 child)

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday July 07 2017, @05:02PM (#536177)

    I wasn't clear there because it was veering way offtopic in a thread that was still live. Netflix is destined to be a cable channel because it is shedding licensed content at an accelerating rate and adding a small amount of created content. The content industry is built around collecting $500+/yr per household passed through from the cable companies, and if that stopped there would be insufficient hookers and blow to keep celubutards and entertainment executives in the lifestyle to which they feel entitled. They were happy to license vast tranches of content to Netflix as an "over the top" addon to cable, seeing it as gravy. Once cord cutting started they started 'reevaluating' their deal with Netflix and as contracts come up for renewal they are jacking the fees to make up for losses from cord cutting. So in ten years we will either see Netflix AS a cable company charging cable company prices or a $10-$20/mo premium cable channel indistinguishable from HBO peddling their home grown content mixed with a few licensed Hollywood films. Just depends how much longer Wall Street is willing to give Netflix the "Amazon style rewards for losing ever more money" treatment.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:30PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 07 2017, @11:30PM (#536311)

      I wasn't clear there because . . .

      Let us count the ways, Soylentils, in which jmorris is not clear! And let us enumerate the causes of these! It's Showtime for jmorris, it's a Box Office at home, The Cine qua non to the Max, he sees Starz! He is Hud, at the Last Picture Show.