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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 05 2014, @10:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 05 2014, @10:01PM (#89989)

    basically this is a good thing!
    however it is inevitable : (
    most users don't get the internet.
    they think the internet connection is like the electricity plug.
    it's where the internet "stuff" comes from, just like the wall-plug is where the electricity comes from.
    those that jumped on the internet bandwagon after 2000 don't know that you can send stuff directly from your home
    harddisk to your mobile phone "directly" without having to use dropbox or such.
    most don't get that you can put ANY PACKET in at some point and tell the internet to route it to another "outlet".
    they think the internet is like a "place", like walmart, where you go for your shopping (this not a jab at amazon!).
    they don't get the internet, just like they don't get the electrical wall plug, where you can also put electricity IN.
    if 90% think the internet is a PLACE then it will turn into that idea and thus "put in a packet here and it will come out over there" paradigm will die (net neutrality) and everything will come from google, facebook, amazon,youtube, netflix and some more (and they will be squeezed) : )

    question: when is the last time you made a direct connection to/with a friend or relative over the internet?
    as direct connection counts (even if using some dynamic ip tracker like dyndns):
    own VPN, own ftp, own webserver, own irc, etc.

    probably the answer will be "last year" and thus why lament the death of "net neutrality" if you are not really using it anyways?
    you get all your stuff from dropbox and email from google and video from youtube anyways. there's no need for "net neutrality" if your internet connection is only SUCKING!