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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 love it. :D
are going to end their lives violently. That is what their kind always does. Their kind is stupid and unable to solve problems intelligently so they always resort to violence. This will end in blood.
Do this for all goverment ip adresses
This will only have its intended effect if adopted by all porn sites.
So now you know what porn is good for.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Who the heck is that?
IOW: Some group nobody has heard of, throttled the FCCs connection speed to a site they'll never visit.
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Slashdot needs to do the same!
Make them use those old telegraph wires for calls too!!!
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.
I love this idea. It's a great demonstration. Unfortunately, I can see the police getting involved but what are they going to do, pull a gun on you and tell you to change it?
I never knew nginx had a "limit_rate" config command. Finally learned something useful on Slashdot! :-)
Now if google, netflix, and a few other big players would also implement this, I think we'd see some real entertainment.
"Holy crap" comment from me.
Jeebus.
That's amazing.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
I expect that The Government will brand such actions as "domestic Internet terrorism". Off to Gitmo!
If ip in set(FCC) {
... speed = slow
... permanently overprint "Welcome to your new, non-neutral, net"
}
else {
... for 10 seconds overprint "We're slowing the FCC, you should too"
... speed = fast
}
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As pointless as a pencil after stabbing a belt sander.
The only thing that's going to make these bastards stop is hitting them in the money, or hitting them. Period.
Outside of that, they don't give a fuck.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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.
This is absolutely brilliant! It would be even cooler if this could be done surreptitiously to FCC public servers.
I don't think the goal is to only throttle the one site, but to start a movement where websites all over the internet, including ones that those on the FCC do frequent, all do this.. so that they feel the effect.
Really? Dealing with some geniuses here.
The FCC appears to have quite a large allocation there. One of those blocks give them 2^16 addresses.
This proposal is to act like dicks until there is a law against acting like dicks? Do you really want Congress or the FCC mulling what you do with your bandwidth? Whether it is spammers, port scanners, spiders, scrapers, more assholes you don't like, do you think that TPTB are going to pass a law that only affects the big ISPs who will be having no part of these effing antics?
Seriously?! Assuming this protest is noticed, it could only have the affect of stiffling everybody. Everybody but the big players with layers of lawyers to protect themselves.
Start up another ribbon campaign if it means that much. Maybe it can speed-test info graphic of sorts, like a radiation badge, that shows whether or not the users' connects are good and fast.
Eh. I have to say, yes, the Ds are just as bought as the Rs. But lets get back on track here... There's a perception that the media is biased towards liberals. Ok, and I stretch to call the Ds liberals. But really. Benghazi. Over and Over and Over. Four people lost their lives, it was a tragedy, and it was a mistake... but it's NOT the story it's made out to be. The media is all in when we're talking about Benghazi though, and where's the real reporting instead of just parroting talking points?
Where were the congressional hearings when we started a war in Iraq on faulty intelligence? Four people lost their lives? Try thousands of our troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians. Where's the outcry in the media?
Our media is NOT liberal. They are corporate conglomerates, who parrot what they are told.
Snowden? Benghazi? Troops coming home in caskets? Oil spills? mines collapsing? Our media are tools, and they say what they're told to say. Liberal bias my ass. They have a corporate bias.
Look, this is /. I know a few of you work at ISPs that work on Tier1/2 networks. I say take this to the hole.
put these rules where they belong, on routers in the center of the internet. make some for Time Warner too, because its their idiot lacky who made them(tom wheeler).
At least a few of you have to work for the internet in some capacity.
I'm going to use your simile as my #2 rule on posting to /.
throttle the family of fcc top dogs. that'll get them to change their tune real fast.
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The whole Red vs Blue thing is missing the boat completely. You can bitch about Republicans all you want, but the problem is the Rich vs. Poor and both deomocons and republicrats are pandering to the wealthy. The only real difference I see is that Republicans are a touch racist on top of everything else. Doesn't matter what side of the ticket you punch in November, we are living in a plutocracy.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
...waiting for the 'Good Germans' line so we can just Goodwin this tread and all go home...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
Now I have to figure out a way to do this in IPTables. :-D
This smells of an advertising campaign. I've never heard of the site and I bet FCC hasn't either.
Free advertising.
Pure brilliance I love it. Never occurred to me .. even if it only has sentimental effect.
exactly how many websites do you believe the FCC needs to access to do their job (not for leisure) that would implement this?
or make lo0d noises
My son just said there is a regulation that LEFs have to watch ALL of any file with a title suggesting it is child porn, and that he has seen discussions of what kind of movies we could force the FBI, etc. to watch. If you include some heavy breathing on the sound track, they would have to listen to it also, no way to speed that up very much, and the music could be something they hate.
Exactly one, as long as it's the one that someone important over there surfs.
This assumes that those in the FCC know how to use the internet.
and just force the FCC to beta.slashdot.org. Do it for an open internet.
Please, PLEASE do the same to the EPA. If you read the recent news, one of the staff who just got a bonus was spending most of his taxpayer-funded work hours downloading p0rn. This is a wonderful solution to that problem.
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I am a bit confused. Didn't net neutrality get shot down in the courts? Isn't this the FCC reacting to that decision? Shouldn't the pressure be on lawmakers?
Don't hate the fact that we are capitalists! The point of which is to take every last dollar you have while giving as little in return as possible! Now that government is also more involved in playing the for profit game than ever, just makes us more capitalist. It's a good thing to have laws and people with guns force you to do business with them; or else! Vehicle and health insurance government rent ( property TAX ) are only the beginning. Big-Data (spy corp), Big-Oil, Big-Agra, Big-MegaCorp, Too-Big-To-Fail-Bank, Big-GOVT and so on... All great things! We are blessed to have such an insanely doomed future in store! Figting it only slows the eventual end game; global revolution via 7 thousand million really pissed-off people will be the outcome though... That will be a fairly bad day to be an elite member of the planet, but like I said there's no explaining it to the powers that be, their much too smart and prepared for that, history is an MFer...
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
Please let me know if I'm wrong, as it's certainly possible. What the proposal allows for is that say Netflix, or Youtube, or any other content provider that would utilize a lot of bandwidth, would be allowed to purchase direct physical lines to individual large ISPs for that ISP's customers instead of sending data over the Internet backbone. The end result would be a faster connection for that provider and those end users, for ultimately less cost.
So what we're dealing with here is a content provider that adds extra bandwidth to the Internet (albeit for a specific purpose), and pays for it, for the intended purpose of saving money for all parties involved while improving the end customer experience. Can someone please tell me why this is a problem? Or am I reading it incorrectly?
I do agree that from a technical point of view, the provider is purchasing a higher tier connection from the ISP for an improvement in throughput, but this in no way impacts any other service. I can envision the standard net neutrality argument that would allow an ISP to possibly extort a content provider, although I can't imagine why they would ever want to do so, considering peering agreements favor the consumer of data. Even so, tweaking the rules to disallow the restriction of data would make more sense than forbidding a willing provider to selectively choose to improve the experience for a specific group of customers above and beyond what is currently possible through the Internet for the same cost.
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Government bureaucracies already run about the same speed as a 300 baud dot matrix printer. They won't notice.
This is fundamentally the same as the web sites (there are many) where free access is throttled (or at least the downloads are) but if you buy a "Premier" (or equivalent term) membership you get unlimited download speed and volume. Of course, most of the ones I've seen charge much less than "Ferengi" prices, but then you're talking about real people vs. FCC staff (especially executives). Throttle on!
While we're at it. A couple things you can do to help is sign the petition (yeah I know). https://petitions.whitehouse.g... And contract the FCC by calling 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322) voice or 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322) TTY; faxing 1-866-413-0232; or writing to: Federal Communications Commission Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division 445 12th Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20554 Let them know you want ISPs to be classified under Title II and that true Net Neutrality is important to you as a citizen.
Great idea, but I can't see it making much impact by single websites.
Who would be an entity sympathetic to this to do this for large scale effect? ISPs? A hosting company of significant size? Actual infrastructure?
Would bringing this forward really help?
-or just speed up the effect of net neutrality erosion?
Perhaps it's already in effect. Certainly you could become a millionaire off this by throttling a hedge funds connection. After you do that, the legal precedence response should hep fix the situation. If it doesn't, just enjoy your sangria in the sun... and send me some btc as an afterthought eh?
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Are they arguing that they should be prohibited by law from doing this? If not, what's their point? If so, they are incredible douches.