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Shunting the FCC To the Slow Lane

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-buffering dept.

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:Wake up and smell the ducats, peons.... by CanHasDIY · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Outward racism seems to be the bailiwick of the Repubs, but that's not to say the Dems are innocent in that regard - Al Sharpton being a prime example, and I seem to recall a certain former Presidential candidate who was caught making disparaging remarks about Midwestern white folks, and how we 'cling to [our] guns and religion.'

    Same deal with the poor - rhetoric-wise, it appears that Repubs don't care about uplifting people out of poverty, but one has to wonder; if the ultra-wealthy Democrats really cared about helping the poor, why don't they ever reach into their own deep pockets? Claiming to donate to some organization that spends 80% on 'administrative costs' might be good election year politics, but it achieves fuck-all in regards to helping America's impoverished.

    --
    An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
  2. Tom = multiple /. sockpuppet using scum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Let's let TOM speak shall we:

    "I'm having great conversations on this site with one of my alias accounts" - by Tom (822) on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:29PM (#46686259) Homepage

    FROM -> http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    APK

    P.S.=> Tom *tried* to libel me & failed after I destroyed him in a technical debate on hosts files... result?

    Tom ended up "eating his words" here http://slashdot.org/comments.p... spiced with "the bitter taste of SELF-defeat" + HIS FOOT IN HIS MOUTH

    ... apk