Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality (theoutline.com)

If you venture over to Battle For the Net, which encourages internet users to call Congress to advocate for the preservation of net neutrality rules, you'll find something peculiar: Several of the top sites that direct calls are Phish-related. (Phish is an American rock band.) From a report: As someone on Twitter pointed out, the traffic from phish.net -- which describes itself as "a non-commercial project run by Phish fans and for Phish fans" -- appears to be coming from a pop-up message that greets visitors to the site. The same pop-up, which directs to www.battleforthenet.com, appears when you visit the site's forums and setlist pages. So, it appears that Phish fans, while in the midst of discussing their favorite extended noodling sessions, are leading the charge to save us from our impending telecom-dominated hellscape. Thanks, guys!" Phish.net sees over 400,000 unique visitors each month, according to web analytics firm SimilarWeb. In July, the website served over one million unique visitors.

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Re:Thanks, Phish fans

[ScentCone]

You don't seem to understand what net neutrality is. Ouch.

Yes, I do. And it is a major roadblock to smaller operators being able to provide internet access to smaller markets where the larger companies will never set foot. The "ouch" part is YOU not understanding how this Obama regulation does that, because you're comfortable in your well-wired little enclave and really don't care enough about fly-over country to worry about why it is millions of people have little better than dial-up internet in 2017. The slamming on of the brakes in that area is a symptom of things like NN. Which you'd know if you did a little homework.