We're a bit late to the party, but for those who haven't seen on the Internet, today is a protest day for Net Neutrality, where sites across the internet are disrupting their normal operations to get the word out and get people to send a message. Ars Technica already has a fairly decent summary of who's doing what, and we stand with them and the rest of the Internet.
Due to real life issues, I was late on getting this together, but for the rest of the day, this article will remain on the top of the page and we will be blacking the theme of the site in protest [Technical issues among others precluded our doing so today --martyb].
If you're a US citizen, and want to get the word out, check Battle for the Net, and get the word out. In addition, there are long discussions going on reddit and other sites throughout the internet
Let's get the word out!
~ NCommander
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:51PM (1 child)
Yes it was possible with TV but the potential audience was smaller. Heard of public-access television? Ironically public-access was the model YouTube used in the early days when it was supposed to be a video blogging platform for individuals, literally a You-Tube. Of course YouTube had to go full commercial when it became obvious people were using YouTube as a pirate platform. YouTube had to become exactly like commericial TV in order to survive lawsuits from copyright holders.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:30AM
The YouTube model is wrong. There needs to be a video platform that has no legal point of registration nor any servers.