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Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane

An anonymous reader writes "Following the FCC's proposal a couple weeks ago to allow an internet fast lane, a group of activists has come up with a fun counterproposal: force the FCC itself into the slow lane and see how they like it. They write, 'Since the FCC seems to have no problem with this idea, I've (through correspondence) gotten access to the FCC's internal IP block, and throttled all connections from the FCC to 28.8kbps modem speeds on the Neocities.org front site, and I'm not removing it until the FCC pays us for the bandwidth they've been wasting instead of doing their jobs protecting us from the "keep America's internet slow and expensive forever" lobby.' The group has published the code snippet that throttles FCC IP addresses, and they encourage other web admins to implement it."

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  1. Re:Wow, the Republicans... by blue+trane · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The one that challenges the Republican views that:money is speech, and since the rich have more money they should get to decide what speech I should listen to.

  2. Re:Wow, the Republicans... by ganjadude · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    you must be watching MSNBC or CNN if you havent heard about those things....

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