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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. Take it a step further by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do this for all goverment ip adresses

  2. Pron by Tokolosh · · Score: 5, Funny

    This will only have its intended effect if adopted by all porn sites.

    So now you know what porn is good for.

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    1. Re:Pron by Yakasha · · Score: 5, Informative

      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

  3. Do it to Congress instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Maybe something will actually get done about the issue.

  4. Nice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now if google, netflix, and a few other big players would also implement this, I think we'd see some real entertainment.

  5. "Internet Terrorism" by leftism11 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I expect that The Government will brand such actions as "domestic Internet terrorism". Off to Gitmo!

  6. We all need to do the same by davecb · · Score: 5, Funny

    If ip in set(FCC) {
    ... permanently overprint "Welcome to your new, non-neutral, net"
    ... speed = slow
    }
    else {
    ... for 10 seconds overprint "We're slowing the FCC, you should too"
    ... speed = fast
    }

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  7. Re:Slashdot needs to do the same by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Naw, just make them use beta all the time.

  8. Re:NeoCities? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think the point is, they are are showing other folks how to do this, and that they should all implement this.

  9. Re:Wow, the Republicans... by Yakasha · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    Republican view? I'm confused.

    Obama, a Democrat, said, “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over”.
    Obama, a Democrat, appointed Tom Wheeler, former cable & wireless lobbyist, to chair the FCC.
    A democrat controlled Senate confirmed Tom Wheeler as the FCC chairman.
    Tom Wheeler proposes the fast lane.

    If you're going to spew partisan demagoguery, at least post it on a story it applies to.