Erstellt am: 10. 9. 2014 - 11:51 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Internet Slowdown
The attack on net-neutrality just won't stop. In country after country, legislation or changes keeps getting made, and then shut down, only to have the same subject show up again somewhere else with another name.
The attempt to make internet access more like pay-tv packaging is far from over. And that is why some major internet content providers are banding together to show the public what a world after the end of net-neutrality might look like.
That's just an artists representation of the future we could be faced with. the actually protest action is called the Internet Slowdown Day. It was organized by fightforthefuture.org and is being supported by sites like Reddit, Etsy, Kickstarter and Vimeo.
The goal is to influence the FCC in the U.S. to take out a fastlane provision that they proposed for new net-neutrality rules. A provision that would basically kill the idea of net-neutrality as part of a ruleset supposedly designed to maintain it.
Yahoo has a fairly decent overview of the subject or, for those who like it more condensed, Reddit has a simple explanation as part of its "Explain Like I'm 5" subreddit. This is one of those issues where regional decisions end up having a global effect, even if we are already seeing similar solutions popping up here in Austria.