I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.
How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
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#13I'd like to have this done to all government agencies, at least all of the major ones.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
White house, supreme court, how about anything from the government?
Why not take it a step further and limit the lobbyists and bad telcos?
Oh I thought about that, but how are you going to target the lobbyists and bad telcos without harming actual customers on those providers who may very well be against this whole debacle.
Government branches likely have a block of IPs while lobbyists I doubt are registered like that :)
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#15Can someone ELI5 this? Why would the FCC visit your site?
If Google, FB, etc. got on the bandwagon and slowed down all requests from FCC and GOV IPs, I'm sure that would get their attention pretty quick!
Now again, why would FCC or anyone in govt. visit Google or FB? I'll let you answer that!
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#16I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.
Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
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#17I'd like to see a law that government offices can only have an internet connection as fast as the slowest constituent.
Agreed and also this should be true for the pay of elected officials and corporate executives.
Minimum wage for elected officials sounds good on paper. Michael Bloomberg would not mind. However, how does this work for corporate executives? When you say pay does this include stock grants and options or just salary?
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#18Can anyone shed some light on what the goal here is. I am all for messing with people for no good reason in subtle ways they do not understand but the author clearly has a purpose here? Is this to teach the FCC about net neutrality?
That's the general idea. Show them what life will be like if you're on the internet slow lane in the hopes they'll wake up and realize what it really means. Especially since the branding has become that they really want to create a "fast lane" which actually doesn't sound like such a bad idea until you realize the reality is the exact opposite.
But if you target someone that doesn't understand the technology, their response is going to be exactly the opposite: "Look what they did, they should not be able to do that => let's carve out a separate part on the internet for essential services". And now you accomplished exactly the opposite.
How about we collectively buy them faster lines?
Re: How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
#19If you want to throttle IIS, I think the IIS Media Pack Bit Rate Throttling module might be a good place to start:
http://blogs.iis.net/vsood/archive/2008/03/14/bit-rate-throt...
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#20Can someone ELI5 this? Why would the FCC visit your site?
They wouldn't, it looks like more pat-yourself-on-the-back then give-yourself-a-high-five internet slacktivism. Someone should make a petition!
Think bigger. What if Google implemented something like this to prove a point? This is a genius idea, it goes beyond your standard Internet activism which is usually words and no action.