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September 10th is "Internet Slowdown" Day

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not tech sites (Score: 3, Insightful)

by ticho@pipedot.org on 2014-09-05 06:38 (#2S2X)

I think it would be useless on tech sites, because the campaign is focused on increasing awareness, while visitors on such sites are usually well aware of the net neutrality issue.Plus, a spinning widget like that would probably be lost among other similar widgets on an average nerd's noscript- adblock- requestpolicy- toting browser. :-)

Re: not tech sites (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-09-05 09:52 (#2S31)

... or their CLI browser (lynx, links, w3m, etc.) :) No, I kind of agree with you. More useful is talking about this stuff on tech sites so the technically-oriented people who read those sites but work at more consumer-oriented sites get the idea and push for authorization to implement it on places like vogue or facebook or victoriassecret or whatever. That would be a real huge success.

I'm optimistic. The last time the world rallied to do this - stop SOPA, I think it was - it made a pretty big splash.

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