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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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Net neutrality advocates plan slow-lane protest

2014-09-08 14:03:59| InfoWorld: Top News

Several high-profile websites -- including Kickstarter, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla, and Meetup -- will display spinning-wheel icons on Wednesday in an attempt to show visitors the Internet slow lanes they say will appear if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission doesn't pass strong Net neutrality regulations.

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Net neutrality advocates plan slow-lane protest

2014-09-05 22:32:30| IT Services - Topix.net

A group of Internet companies will display spinning wheel, slow-loading icons Wednesday in an effort to show what might happen if the FCC does not pass net neutrality rules. Several high-profile websites -- including Kickstarter, Etsy, Reddit, Mozilla and Meetup -- will display spinning-wheel icons next Wednesday in an attempt to show visitors the Internet slow lanes they say will appear if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission doesn't pass strong net neutrality regulations.

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U.N. envoy seeks climate neutrality

2014-09-05 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

United Press International: Climate neutrality, a notion where greenhouse gas output is equal to natural sinks, is not "nirvana" but a goal that needs backing, top climate leaders said. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Mario Molina, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, wrote in the Thursday edition of British newspaper The Guardian "bold initiatives" are needed to slow global greenhouse emissions. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosts a climate summit in New...

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