Netflix and other major websites will purposefully hamper your access to them today, in a web-wide protest of the FCC's planned "Internet Fast Lane" reorganizing of the internet. Will it help? We can only hope!
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It's not just Netflix who's standing up to the proposed end of Net Neutrality, other famous sites like Reddit, Vimeo, Etsy, Upworthy and Digg are planning to make it look like your surfing speed has suddenly dropped down to "turtle stuck in a bear trap" speed.
Short recap: the FCC plans to make decent internet speed a paying thing, offering a "fast lane and a super-fast lane". The latter, of course, will be behind a paywall. This will result in only big corporations like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the like getting fast service, while struggling start-up sites are left in the dust. If you had a choice between fast-loading sites and slower ones, where would you spend your clicks?
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Said organizer and former Rhode Island state representative David Segal to CBS: "It's always hard to explain complicated topics to a lot of people, and the FCC made it harder by trying to fool the public into thinking their proposal was real net neutrality, when it was actually what the cable and phone lobbyists always asked for."
Net neutrality is the principle that internet providers should give equal service to any website, no matter the content or its owners. For a funny and incisive explanation on why Internet Slowdown Day better work, check out the embedded video:
