Kickstarter Will Slow Down Site in Protest of Net Neutrality
Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:46 am
Read the full article here: http://recode.net/2014/09/06/etsy-kicks ... s-protest/
Happy to see that Kickstarter is participating in this! I'm a big fan of net neutrality and think that it needs to be taken very seriously in the coming years.
As a stand against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s proposal on net neutrality, a group of popular websites will stage an “Internet Slowdown” on Sept. 10.
The plan is to overlay their sites with slow-to-load spinning icons. The point is to appeal to visitors to contact policymakers and complain about the notion of so-called “slow lanes” for delivering Web pages made by companies that don’t pay for fast service, a possible result of the current proposal.
To be clear, the sites will not actually load more slowly, this is just a sort of symbolic protest in the tradition of the highly effective SOPA blackout campaign in 2012.
Happy to see that Kickstarter is participating in this! I'm a big fan of net neutrality and think that it needs to be taken very seriously in the coming years.