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> I'd enable that setting and I imagine lots of others would I absolutely would - I run a few sites under Cloudflare. Instead of slowing down the traffic comi
by chimeracoder 12y ago
> I'd enable that setting and I imagine lots of others would
I absolutely would - I run a few sites under Cloudflare.
Instead of slowing down the traffic coming from the FCC (which is likely to be small), I'd recommend throttling by geography. For example, Comcast is based in Philadelphia (they already own the tallest building in Philadelphia[0], and are building another even larger one[0]).
I imagine (e.g.) the denizens of Philadelphia would become a lot more vocal in their support for net neutrality with their elected officials if they started getting throttled.
You could say that it's unfair to pick on Philadelphians when they haven't done anything wrong themselves. I'd agree, but on the other hand, that's what makes this so effective - it shows people how unjust and unfair the concept of content-based throttling is.
It reminds me of Dan Savage's response to a poor woman who happened to share a last name with Rick Santorum, and wrote to him asking him to stop dragging her name through the mud[2], as she was only distantly related to him. His response was something along the lines of, "Instead of writing to me asking me to stop, write to him and ask him to stop being a bigot and tarnishing your name".
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Center_%28Philadelphia%29#Tenants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast_Center_%28Philadelphia...
[1] Which says a lot about what they expect their business to be like in the near future....
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_neologism#Reception_and_political_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_%22santorum%22_ne...
- Silhouette 12y agoHis response was something along the lines of, "Instead of writing to me asking me to stop, write to him and ask him to stop being a bigot and tarnishing your name". Perhaps he should also have suggested that she write to Google and ask them to stop supporting it. That would presumably have been similarly effective, and therefore a similarly constructive thing to suggest.