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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."
I think the point is, they are are showing other folks how to do this, and that they should all implement this.
over the rules created by the FCC leadership, which was appointed and installed by various politicians...
No. They were all appointed by Obama.
Tom Wheeler, Chairman, appointed by: Obama; November 2013
Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner, appointed by: Obama; May 2013 and June 2009
Jessica Rosenworcel, Commissioner, appointed by: Obama; May 2012
Ajit Pai, Commissioner, appointed by: Obama; May 2012
Michael O'Reilly, Commissioner, appointed by: Obama; August 2013