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posted by azrael on Friday September 05 2014, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the read-this-slowly dept.

Battle for the Net has the details about what the September 10th Internet Slowdown is and how to participate.

You're our only hope.

This is the time to go big, visible, and strong--that's the only way we can actually win this fight. We all need to get as many people in our respective audiences motivated to do something. We can make this epic, but only if you help. We need companies to be frontrunners, leaders, and heroes on this, that's the key ingredient to raising the bar and making sure everyone goes big.

We realize it's a big ask, but this is the kind of bad internet legislation that comes along (or gets this close to passing) once a decade or so. If it passes we'll be kicking ourselves for decades--every time a favorite site gets relegated to the slow lane, and every time we have to rework or abandon a project because of the uncertain costs paid prioritization creates. Doing the most we can right now seems like the only rational step.

Ars notes

Several top websites -- including Etsy, Kickstarter, Foursquare, Wordpress, Vimeo, reddit, Mozilla, Imgur, Meetup, Cheezburger, Namecheap, Bittorrent, Gandi.net, StartPage, BoingBoing, and Dwolla -- announced that they will be joining more than 35 advocacy organizations and hundreds of thousands of activists in a day of action that will give a glimpse into what the Internet might look like if the FCC's proposed rules go into effect. The protest comes just 5 days before the FCC's next comment deadline on September 15th.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by FuzzyTheBear on Friday September 05 2014, @06:15PM

    by FuzzyTheBear (974) on Friday September 05 2014, @06:15PM (#89912)

    So basically it's a case of blackmail to the content providers by carriers who want to milk the cow another notch without regard about what's right and what's wrong. This is typical of US businesses. Nothing to see here. Message to customers ? Shut up and pay , big boys need to upgrade their yatchs.