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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: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:22AM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:22AM (#538466) Journal

    Disrupt Comcast on all levels?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:37AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 13 2017, @12:37AM (#538475) Journal

    Yeah - except - disrupt them badly enough, and you've effectively DDOS'd millions of people.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:01AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday July 13 2017, @01:01AM (#538489) Journal

      Keeping things like they are will have people experience DDoS by corporate policy down the line. Better to make it clear right now that such corporate behavior will be shunned by most peers and be unworkable financially in the end. It might be the time to make passive financial support of assholes a painful experience.

      Maybe internet could benefit from the Athenian Greek democracy procedure in which any citizen could be expelled from the city-state for ten years if they were deemed to be a threat to the state or potential tyrant. So the internet community could exert a Usenet death penalty (UDP) to the entity that it deemed to be the most damaging to a functioning internet in the last year. This could range from legal procedures, public relations, technical disconnect and refusal, campaigns to erode customer base etc all at the same time to make sure it pays to not be the entity deemed the worst and largest asshole. Other assholes entities could watch and know that they might be next should they continue to screw people.