Sept. 10th is the Internet Slowdown: Big Cable wants to slow down the Internet? Fine. Lets show the world what a web without net neutrality would be like. Join our open, international call for action to protect Internet Freedom. Cable companies are spending billions to gut net neutrality and create fast lanes and slow lanes on the Internet. We can’t let this happen, but they’re so powerful. To win, we need a response that pulls out all the stops and drives the maximum number of people to voice their support for net neutrality. 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. Major websites and services are lined up to push hard on this — it affects literally everyone who uses the Internet for work or pleasure. This is the moment to win this battle for the net. We need all hands on deck for this. Think about how best to get your audiences attention and join the Internet Slowdown with your site or mobile app. The spirit of the slowdown is that everyone can join in their own way, but we’re providing tools to make it easy. If youre going to participate, tell the world ASAP. Announce it on your blog and twitter. Help get others to join. Got a question? Contact us. Oh its on. September 10th. The Internet Slowdown starts at midnight eastern time on September 10th, and runs through midnight on September 11th. Whatever awesome stuff youve got planned, do it then! And remember: the goal is to drive as many emails and calls to Congress, the White House, and the FCC as possible. Youre our only hope. This is the time to go big, visible, and strong - thats the only way we can actually win this fight. We all need to get as many people in our respective audiences motivated to do something. We can make this epic, but only if you help. We need companies to be frontrunners, leaders, and heroes on this, that’s the key ingredient to raising the bar and making sure everyone goes big. We realize its a big ask, but this is the kind of bad internet legislation that comes along (or gets this close to passing) once a decade or so. If it passes well be kicking ourselves for decades—every time a favorite site gets relegated to the slow lane, and every time we have to rework or abandon a project because of the uncertain costs paid prioritization creates. Doing the most we can right now seems like the only rational step. Get code and join us: https://battleforthenet/sept10th/
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 15:40:18 +0000
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