This is the most ingenious way to protest the FCC’s net neutrality plans

[Brad Reed]

Here's an absolutely brilliant way to get people to flood the Federal Communications Commission's phone lines with angry complaints. Ars Technica reports that venture capitalist Brad Feld has created a new campaign called Stop The Slow Lane that will let you add a "slow lane" widget to your website that will intentionally slow your pages' load times and then tell users to complain to the FCC about it while they wait. You can find code for embedding the widget over at GitHub, although you'd better act quickly to get it up since the FCC is actually scheduled to vote on its net neutrality plan later on Thursday.

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Via BRG - Boy Genius Report