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The great Internet Slowdown: Join tomorrows protest against the FCCs new net neutrality rules

2014-09-09 16:28:16| Extremetech

Tomorrow, September 10, will mark the first great Internet Slowdown -- a protest by some of the web's largest companies over the FCC and US government's handling of net neutrality. All across the web, on sites such as Reddit, Netflix, and Wordpress, a spinning "loading..." icon will appear, reminding everyone that internet slow lanes -- where some websites load more slowly than others if you don't pay your ISP some extra money -- are a real possibility unless we write to our country's lawmakers now.

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