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Net Neutrality Protest Day

posted by NCommander on Wednesday July 12 2017, @09:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the bit-late-to-the-party dept.

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

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Lagg on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:10PM (3 children)

    by Lagg (105) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @11:10PM (#538421) Homepage Journal

    I used to be optimistic about this but in the past year I got the metered shit, intrusive HTML injected into my pages regularly without VPN use (which should not be a VPN usecase), etc. I am highly concerned at these pieces of garbage slowly eating away at the internet's integrity in a frog-in-boiling-water type of way. I wonder just what exactly there is going to be to preserve at a certain point. Because I don't think they're going to stop. Isn't this like version 3 of kill-net-neutrality in the last 5 years or thereabouts?

    In any case, it's not getting easier to be active about it. I no longer value phoning my rep because if there was a time they're definitely not going to listen it's now. Online petitions have been murdered by abuse several times over, donation places scam you or spam you (both happened to me with greenpeace and planned parenthood with their outsourced street recruiters, one of many lessons learned in supposedly progressive Denver). I'm pretty sure whatever street march is going to happen is several plane flights away from me.

    What do?

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:18AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:18AM (#538464) Journal

    what exactly there is going to be to preserve at a certain point.

    Only sour things, mate. The kind of kimchi, you know?

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:46AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:46AM (#538481) Journal

    HTTPS should eat away intrusive HTML injections. And packet radio etc may route around moronic ISPs. The time has come to make ISPs redundant. Maybe hackers need to set the records straight with some miscreants.

  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:29AM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:29AM (#538541)

    What do?

    nothing.

    (can we have your liver, then?)

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