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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 CloudFlare and some of the other big CDN's would need to add this as an optional feature before it got big enough to matter. I just don't see Google adopting this.
Wikipedia OTOH....
Is there anything better than clicking through Microsoft ads on Slashdot?
Maybe something will actually get done about the issue.
Remember the SOPA/PIPA protests - Google actually participated in that one.
I could see someone like NYtimes, Washington Post, CNN.com or other media sites briefly doing this kind of stunt. Grandpa wouldn't be affected, unless he visited their sites from FCC HQ.
How about doing it to all campaign sites for anyone who supports it?
The FCC appears to have quite a large allocation there. One of those blocks give them 2^16 addresses.
You do realize that the FCC has thousands of employees. And that you just called them all dipshits, over the rules created by the FCC leadership, which was appointed and installed by various politicians...
Did you choose where you currently work, or did someone pull you out of your home at gunpoint and command you to do job X?
When someone choses to work for incompetent dipshits, it doesn't really reflect well on their own level of genius.
Why just government ip addresses? I think it'd be much more effective to throttle all of Comcast's address space and add a banner making it clear that Comcast is trying to double dip and get paid twice for internet they have already sold you and to be extra nice and helpful Comcast's 1-800 # for support.