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Top websites join Internet Slowdown Day in symbolic protest of 'fast lanes'

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On September 10th many major companies will demonstrate what the web might be like if fast lanes are allowed as part of the Net Neutrality rules. Participating website such as Reddit, Foursquare, Vimeo, Wordpress, and Boing Boing will have a infinitely-loading site icon to show users what the web could turn into if internet service providers are allowed to charge for fast lanes and artificially slow down connections to non-paying websites. This Internet Slowdown Day was started by the group "Fight for the Future" which asks people to contact their US representatives and officially protest fast lanes

 

Here is an example from Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/stop

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wonder if other websites will join in

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Google should join in.

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You know what all the companies that run the internet backbone should do?

 

Give the bird to the government and ISPs (such as their websites) and slow down their traffic. To ungodly amounts. Worse than DSL slow. Constant timeouts.

 

I can dream.

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I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

Yeah that would have a huge effect on the entire world :P Google has sooo much power.

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as long as i dont see this ANYWHERE... because the EU made it illegal to do the fast lane thing :P

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Google should join in.

 

They could totes make a comic like they do for everything else, but it be a loading animation with the text eventually coming up as "Is this the kind internet you want?"

 

I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

 

We've already seen the effects of Facebook being down for mere minutes: stay-at-home-gossip-naggy-men-women call 911 due to Facebook being down.

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Neftlix should join in!

 

oh wait they don't need to anymore because they paid the man and took the shaft

Amen.

 

I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

Damnit I want to find a gif that fits that....

 

You know what all the companies that run the internet backbone should do?

 

Give the bird to the government and ISPs (such as their websites) and slow down their traffic. To ungodly amounts. Worse than DSL slow. Constant timeouts.

 

I can dream.

Have you ever used a government internet connection? It's already absolute shit, they'd never even notice.

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Oh man. If Google added a buffer to search results. Maybe about a 1 minute buffer. The world would come unglued.

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Damn i hope more people join in google should definitely join in imagine the impact that would make!

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Google should join in.

 

 

I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

 

 

They could totes make a comic like they do for everything else, but it be a loading animation with the text eventually coming up as "Is this the kind internet you want?"

 

 

We've already seen the effects of Facebook being down for mere minutes: stay-at-home-gossip-naggy-men-women call 911 due to Facebook being down.

 

 

Oh man. If Google added a buffer to search results. Maybe about a 1 minute buffer. The world would come unglued.

If google added a buffer we'd have to use Bing.

 

I think I would cry.

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I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

hell even an hour or so

even a minute lol
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For me every day's an internet slowdown day xD

 

 

Have you ever used a government internet connection? It's already absolute shit, they'd never even notice.

 

Are they worse than mine? If so I'd be taking hats off to the sheer engineering feat that went into creating a connection that simply wasn't yet was still connected.

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if google servers slowdown for an our i think their search would be the least of people worries, just imagine to be forced to watch youtube videos in 144p for an hour...

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I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

 

The sheer amount of software engineers that would get fired as a result ... *shudder*.

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I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

Imagine if MS paid for a fast lane and had all ISPs bring Google to a halt.

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I'd love to see the effects of shutting google down for a day lol

 

hell even an hour or so

an hour? could shut it down for five minutes and people would be calling the cops. look what happened when facebook went down. people actually called the cops about it

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For me every day's an internet slowdown day xD

 

 

 

Are they worse than mine? If so I'd be taking hats off to the sheer engineering feat that went into creating a connection that simply wasn't yet was still connected.

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When I worked at a local state run (state goverment) run liqour store, our internet was so bad that if the computer we used to clock in and out on was plugged into the internet, even with nothing running on it, the credit and debit card machines would not work. Straight up

o_O Dayyyyyyyum, That is bad.

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