Reddit, Kickstarter, and others plan net neutrality 'day of action' on September 10th

[TargeT]

I think this is worth some effort & support.


Reddit, Kickstarter, and others plan net neutrality 'day of action' on September 10th
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As the FCC prepares to close public comments on its net neutrality proposal, major internet companies are organizing a protest to raise awareness. Reddit, Etsy, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Mozilla, Namecheap, Vimeo, and others will observe next Wednesday — September 10th — as a day of action, during which they'll showcase net neutrality issues on their sites and drive visitors to contact the FCC, Congress, and the White House. The protest, like many previous, smaller ones, warns of a potential "internet fast lane," in which ISPs and online services could reach deals for better service and leave the rest of the web behind. Among other things, sites will post banners that mimic a loading wheel to dramatize what a slowed-down internet could look like.

Several banners and widgets have been posted ahead of time by Battle for the Net, a project backed by Fight for the Future, Demand Progress (founded by the late internet activist Aaron Swartz), and other nonprofit organizations. While there's not much information on the banners themselves, Battle for the Net backs one of the most popular options for preserving net neutrality: reclassifying broadband under the Title II common carrier laws that regulate phone service. The original Open Internet rules, set in place under the watch of former FCC chair Julius Genachowski, were struck down earlier this year after a judge ruled that the core principles, like stopping ISPs from blocking or degrading the quality of services, treated companies like Verizon too much like common carriers.Current chair Tom Wheeler has promised to keep net neutrality alive, but his proposal was received relatively poorly when he unveiled it this spring, particularly because it leaves open the possibility of speeding up specific services within "commercially reasonable" bounds. This has prompted a major backlash and a number of angry public comments, but if you support the idea of net neutrality, it's less clear how it will be fixed. Wheeler has largely steered clear of Title II reclassification, suggesting that he can use language from this year's court decision to justify it under rules on promoting broadband competition. And critics of Title II argue that it's an overly restrictive solution that gives the FCC too much power over the internet and might still not support net neutrality rules. A "forked" version of Battle for the Net, backed by libertarian-leaning group TechFreedom, has dubbed itself "Don't Break the Internet" and come out in favor of "vigilant restraint" and against Title II.

But among net neutrality advocates, Title II is often considered the best way to create Open Internet rules that will stand up in court. No matter what rules Wheeler puts forward, there's a good chance he'll face more lawsuits from ISPs, like the one that killed the last framework. Section 706, the option Wheeler has pursued most strongly, offers a shaky foundation for lasting policy. A third option is to ask Congress to pass a law codifying standard Open Internet rules; although the idea has been floated by lawmakers, some members of Congress have also pushed for a bill explicitly banning net neutrality. The EFF, Public Knowledge, and other groups that are prominent in the net neutrality fight have signed onto the mission of Battle for the Net.

The day of action will run through midnight of September 11th, a few days ahead of the FCC comment deadline of September 15th. While it's modeled somewhat on the strategy of the 2012 SOPA blackout, the loading wheel widgets won't actually slow down sites, making it less extreme than that protest — though one company has actually slowed down its site for visitors using FCC IP addresses as part of an earlier protest. Individual companies may do more than the banners; Reddit manager Erik Martin says the site will be gathering comments from members, among other things. The FCC will be using comments to formulate a final proposal for net neutrality, which it previously said it hoped to have in place by the end of 2014.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/4/6104505/reddit-kickstarter-and-others-plan-net-neutrality-day-of-action

[TargeT]

Pornhub, Redtube and Youporn will be joining the net neutrality protest Sept 10th.... if you know anything about the Porn industry it DRIVES technology, they were the deciders between BetaMax and VHS, they decided on Blue ray over the alternative (which I don't even remember... haha) so this is actually a great thing.



How to participate

On September 10th, sites across the web will display an alert with a symbolic "loading" symbol (the proverbial “spinning wheel of death”) and promote a call to action for users to push comments to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. Note: none of these tools actually slow your site down; they tell your visitors about the issue and ask them to contact lawmakers.

Do you have a website or blog? Get the code, and run it all day on September 10th.
Know anyone with a popular iPhone or Android app? Ask them to send a push notification.
Is social media your biggest audience? Change your avatar to a spinning wheel of death. Or share these images on Facebook.

Be creative! Grab peoples' attention with a loading symbol, and link to tools for emailing and calling lawmakers (e.g. battleforthenet.com). Whatever you decide, tell us you're participating, announce it publicly, and commit to getting *one* person or company with a *bigger* reach than you to join in as well. Got a question? Contact us.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/

[TargeT]

Etsy CEO to Businesses: If Net Neutrality Perishes, We Will Too
As the CEO of a young company, I spend most of my time thinking about serving our community of one million sellers, leading 600 employees, building web and mobile products, and managing growth. The last thing I want to think about is an arcane legal proposal at the Federal Communications Commission.
But the FCC has proposed an end to the open Internet. This proposal has alarmed the Etsy community and employees. One seller, Beth in Oregon, said “If internet users find it too difficult to load our websites and see our products, it will be impossible for us to grow or succeed.” The FCC proposal threatens any business that relies on the Internet to reach consumers, stream video, process payments, advertise services or products, speak their minds, or do just about anything else. It therefore demands my time, as it should yours.
This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for the business world, because the future of the Internet is the future of American business.

It’s time for the business community to take a public stand in support of the open Internet. Digital rights organizations are calling for a day of action on Wednesday, September 10, when businesses across the Internet will mobilize their communities to contact DC policymakers directly. Etsy will proudly take part. I call upon all my fellow CEOs, small business owners, employees, and Internet users to join the action on September 10 — and encourage their bosses to do so — for three simple reasons.
1. The Future of Our Businesses Is at Stake

If you missed this late-night explanation, we’re fighting for the basic principle that cable and phone companies should treat all websites and applications equally and without new tolls. For years, cable and phone providers have lobbied for the right to charge companies a fee to reach users, creating fast lanes for those willing and able to pay, and slow lanes for the rest of us.

Earlier this year, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler put out a proposal that would give these companies everything they asked for. And it would kill permissionless innovation and free expression. Companies would succeed because of deals struck with cable companies, not because of superior products. That’s why we filed comments and met with the FCC chairman to explain the potential harm to our business and our one million sellers, 88 percent of whom are women and 18 percent of whom make their entire living selling on Etsy.
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The current proposal doesn’t just threaten tech or media companies. It threatens any business that relies on the Internet to reach consumers.

Research from Google and Microsoft shows that delays of milliseconds result in fewer page views and fewer sales in both the short and long term. This is true not just for high-bandwidth services like video, but for any content delivered over the Internet. That means businesses in every industry will suffer under the chairman’s proposal. This is a fight for all of us.
2. Policymakers Need to Hear From Businesses

Average citizens and digital rights organizers have spent the last six months sounding the alarm to save the Internet as we know it. At first, these folks were received like an early stage startup — they faced apparently impossible odds and almost everyone wrote them off for taking on a noble but doomed fight. But then something clicked. Three million Americans filed comments in favor of an open Internet. Hundreds of companies, investors, and civil rights groups joined the movement. Fourteen Senators, nearly 40 members of Congress, and the New York City and San Francisco mayors called on the FCC to establish a clear, bright-line rule banning paid prioritization under any circumstances.

Even President Obama spoke out to oppose Internet fast lanes, which the FCC chairman’s proposed rule would plainly authorize. Policymakers have heard from the public and civil libertarians. Different messengers click for different policymakers. Some are waiting to hear directly from the businesses that will be harmed by the FCC’s dangerous proposal. That’s us and the micro-businesses we represent.
3. Now Is the Moment

The action is on September 10 for several good reasons. It is just a few days before the end of the FCC comment period, on the 15th. Plus, Congress is only in town for two weeks before recessing to campaign for reelection. We want our communities to reach out to DC while members of Congress are there and thinking about their reelection. Activists from Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press, working with Engine Board Member and lawyer Marvin Ammori, have created tools available at BattlefortheNet.com/sept10th/ that empower people to send comments and call their representatives directly, so most companies should have enough time to implement them.

To be sure, the cable and phone companies are counting on our apathy. After all, businesses are often more conservative than activists and tend to not want to jump alone. But not this time. Our employees care, our communities are invested, and after months of progress, we now have a real shot at victory.

This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for the business world, because the future of the Internet is the future of American business. I ask my friends in the business community to join us on September 10. Let’s get this done, so that we can all go back to serving our customers and building our businesses without spending the rest of our lives petitioning the FCC and cable companies for permission to innovate and grow.

http://www.wired.com/2014/09/etsy-ceo-to-businesses-if-net-neutrality-perishes-we-will-too/

[Carmody]

This is the sort of thing that Rupert Murdoch spoke about a few years back when he stated that the methods, tactics and solutions for maintaining control were waiting and in the wings. That the elites, so to speak, had a strike back plan, waiting in the wings, in order to maintain their control and extend it.

This is part of the move toward the regaining of total control of humanity by the extant elite.

This situation can look a bit innocent, but it is as fundamental is it gets. This is as important as it is possible to label a thing being in and of importance -to the individual and the sum total of humanity.

The inter-connectivity of humanity is just in the genesis of being established, and those who have driven us to nightmarish levels are doing their damnest to be the ones who inform and create all future humanity, in group and individual intelligence, life and genesis/flow, in all ways.

No net neutrality means an overall slavery and ownership that will be outside of the average person's ability to understand.

To be dumbed down and not ever know it or understand it.

This is, in every way possible, in how our future can unfold, ultra-critical.

[TargeT]

This is the sort of thing that Rupert Murdoch spoke about a few years back when he stated that the methods, tactics and solutions for maintaining control were waiting and in the wings. That the elites, so to speak, had a strike back plan, waiting in the wings, in order to maintain their control and extend it.

This is part of the move toward the regaining of total control of humanity by the extant elite.

yes, and I fear this issue is not getting the attention it's due.

[Carmody]

The move to non-neutrality is a move back toward humanity being an ox towing a cart.

It's about 'informing the senses', and if you inform all the senses of the ox, then you can make it do what you want.

This is the core issue that is at hand here, with this net non-neutrality proposal.

[Carmody]

This is similar to the Rothschild quote on money creation and control:

"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes it's laws" — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild ...

change the word 'control of a nation's money' for 'internet', and you will arrive at the correct understanding of what is going on here.

"Give me control of a nation's internet and I care not who makes it's laws"

This is because the internet is becoming THE core information and communication system (bi-directional data flow in all ways - individual and the collective) for all of humanity and how it will unfold and is unfolding.


So keep the bastards down with a stick and realize where you have to hit to keep them down, and the action point....it is at this exact spot that is happening right now. Attack the disease where it enters the system and attempts total takeover.

This is what is going on here.

[TargeT]

the way we are going now, its very possible that we will look on the internet as Television 2.0 in all the BAD ways. Facebook alone is proving this via the massive data gathering & psychological profiling that is OPENLY happening (and not many people care much about it), I see the noose closing tight and fast, especially with the Fascist moves that are happening like the appointment of the new CTO of the US strait from Google (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?74607-Blantant-facism...-US-names-Google--s-Megan-Smith-the-next-Chief-Technology-Officer).....



only until people are motivated to ACT (aka, DO something...) will this change, and we are not "there" yet it seems, or maybe it is just meant to seem that way..

the internet is a double edged sword, and we don't have the pommel in our hands....

[Carmody]

bump ... ..

[DeDukshyn]

the way we are going now, its very possible that we will look on the internet as Television 2.0 in all the BAD ways ...

Actually, in light of Carmody's post above, the internet looks a lot more like "Currency 2.0" -- the same formulas that control the energy proxy of money, can control the energy proxy of our current informational transfers - which have succeeded the currency of money in terms of the influence of control and power for the elite -- the scale has just become a lot larger ... They are redefining and moving up a level the same systems that enslaved nations previously, now they want to enslave the individual minds that make up those nations ...

[Carmody]

When you add in the internet being used for mind to mind transfer (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2742486/Groundbreaking-experiment-allows-brain-brain-communication-internet-people-5-000-miles-apart.html) and the Oculus rift (http://www.oculusvr.com/), you get to the unfolding of the new currency, the new lifeblood, the new shaper of things.

They want control NOW, so when the time comes, there will not be the ability to understand the scope or the meaning of these coming things.

[TargeT]

participating websites will display a "loading" icon animation on their pages to protest the idea of internet fast lanes, directing people to contact their local lawmakers in protest. While the name "internet slowdown day" would seem to imply websites will be slowing down loading speeds, apparently that isn't the case.

This page has more information; http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/07/internet-slowdown-coming-warn-groups

Sending a letter (paper or electronic) is best if you write it yourself. Don't bother with a form letter; if that's all you have, just call. (Sending the same letter — with minor changes, at least — to both of your Senators and your Representative is acceptable, though).

Your letter should follow business formatting guidelines (if you're using email, of course, you can skip the addresses and date, but do include "Dear Sen./Rep. Smith").

Keep the length reasonable: you don't want a bunch of whitespace ending your first page, so keep a minimum length of two-third to three-fourths of a page (the address and date eat into that); nor do you want to waste your Congressman's time, so try not to go over about a page and a half. If you're using paper, going just over a page (leaving most of your second page as whitespace) looks silly; trim it down to one page. If you're using email, the same amount of content is around 150-350 words.

Your opening paragraph should be one sentence: "I support/oppose [bill number], (the) [bill name]." You can, of course, play around with that: "As your constituent, I…"; "I urge you to…"; switch the bill name and number; whatever. The important part is that you quickly make your point.

The remainder of your letter should include (space permitting) a summary of the bill, your reasons for supporting/opposing the bill, polite and simple clarifications of common misconceptions (if possible), notes on local opinion (if known and supporting your case), and legislative history (if it exists and supports your case).

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2fvjbp/eli5_what_will_happen_on_the_internet_slowdown/

[TargeT]

Hey guys, Eric from Netflix, letting you know we're joining reddit and others for ‘Internet Slowdown’ Day Sept. 10th to protect Net Neutrality.

Consumers, not broadband gatekeepers, should pick the winners and losers on the Internet. While we won't actually slow down your streams during Internet Slowdown day, look for the symbolic buffering symbol on the Netflix site on Wednesday and join the day of action. Announcement here: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/509052057429372929

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2fui0k/hey_guys_eric_from_netflix_letting_you_know_were/

[TargeT]

Supporting net neutrality and the Internet Slowdown

On 10th September 2014, Canonical are joining in with Internet Slowdown day to support the fight for net neutrality.

Along with Reddit, Tumblr, Boing Boing, Kickstarter and many more sites, we will be sporting banners on our main sites, www.ubuntu.com and www.canonical.com.
https://www.battleforthenet.com/?from=banner
Net neutrality

From Wikipedia:

Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of communication.

Internet Slowdown day

#InternetSlowdown day is in protest to the FCC’s plans to allow ISPs in America to offer “paid prioritization” of their traffic to certain companies.

If large companies were allowed to pay ISPs to prioritise their traffic, it would be much harder for competing companies to enter the market, effectively giving large corporations a greater monopoly.

I believe that internet service providers should conform to common carrier laws where the carrier is required to provide service to the general public without discrimination.

If you too support net neutrality, please consider signing the Battle for the net petition.
http://blog.canonical.com/2014/09/09/supporting-net-neutrality-and-the-internet-slowdown/


https://www.battleforthenet.com/

[TargeT]

Own a website and want to join in?

Here's a quick easy add on to your page that will make it appear to low slow (as slow as you want).

Here's the instructions:
http://netneutralityslowday.com/

we need to make a wave tomorrow & let it be known that the Internets internal functioning is not the realm of government or large corporations.

[panopticon]

Viva Net Neutrality!

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-- Pan

[TargeT]

Great creative support for this issue, here's some great infotainment:

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[TargeT]

For those of you that participated, Great job!


http://www.freepress.net/sites/default/files/styles/781wide_nocrop/public/field/image/seriously_nn_blog.jpg?itok=nfuu6PPr
A Thousand Calls Per Minute: The #InternetSlowdown Takes Off
The spinning wheel of death could become an all-too familiar sight if FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler ignores the major opposition to his plan to allow discrimination online. That’s why hundreds of businesses and thousands of public interest organizations are participating in today’s 24-hour Internet Slowdown: to show what a world without Net Neutrality would look like.

Participants are displaying a symbolic still-loading icon on their sites to express their support for strong open Internet protections. The icon links to actions pushing the White House and members of Congress to speak out — and urging Wheeler to drop his plan. And already the slowdown is generating 1,000 calls per minute to Congress.

The Free Press Action Fund teamed up with Demand Progress, Engine Advocacy and Fight for the Future to organize the protest — and the ACLU, Greenpeace USA, MoveOn and SumOfUs are among the many organizations signed on for today’s event.

Among the companies and websites on board are big names like Netflix, Tumblr, Etsy, Kickstarter, Mozilla, reddit, Dropbox and Upworthy.

We’re more than halfway through the slowdown — and already it’s making big waves:

News outlets like the BBC, CNN, Democracy Now!, NPR, Politico, Salon, the Washington Post and USA Today are all covering the slowdown.

Politicians like Sens. Angus King, Ed Markey, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden — plus the Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee — are getting in on the act.

Buzzfeed’s got the ultimate listicle: 18 reasons everything on the Net should be treated equally.

Vimeo has a great video featuring buffering and pixelated images — the kind of fare that could become standard in a post-Net Neutrality world.

Tumblr has an awesome video too.

Clickhole has activist koalas who are refusing to load.

Etsy has an embroidered spinning wheel.

Tons of people are tweeting, sharing images and blogging, and thousands are taking action.
http://www.freepress.net/blog/2014/09/10/the-internet-slowdown-takes-off




'Nipplegate' dethroned by net neutrality at top of FCC's comments list
Janet Jackson ‘wardrobe malfunction’ unseated as FCC receives record number of public comments on internet issue
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Move over, Janet Jackson: America is officially more concerned with the future of the internet than with your nipple.

After a day of protest against Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposals for regulating the internet that was coordinated by some of the world’s largest tech companies, the agency announced on Wednesday it had received a record 1,477,301 public comments about the proposals since July.

The previous record of 1.4 million was set in 2004 when an alleged “wardrobe malfunction” during the halftime show at the Super Bowl led to Jackson’s breast (plus nipple shield) being flashed to an audience of 111 million.

The record was broken as tech companies including Twitter, Reddit, Google and others called on their users to contact the FCC and Congress and express their disapproval over new rules now being considered that they claim would impact “net neutrality”.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/10/nipplegate-dethroned-net-neutrality-fcc-public-comments

[TargeT]

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https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/#infographic