> Go wild and Tweet every 10 minutes until the FCC vote, change your job on LinkedIn to “Defending Net Neutrality” or say you’re “Married to the Open Internet” on Facebook. Do whatever you can to get everyone’s attention
Sigh. I don't know who made that page but if they thing tweeting every 10 minutes or changing your job desc on LinkedIn will get anyone's attention, yet more everyone's, it's not even wrong. It's just sad.
Moreover, everyone's attention would be completely useless, as everyone, especially everyone who reads random twitter feeds of people that have time for such shenanigans, have absolutely zero input to FCC decisions.
Of course, you can do all this and feel you contributed to a great struggle. Or you might spend this time doing something useful. That's always an option.
> Or you might spend this time doing something useful. That's always an option.
Genuine question: what are some ways in which we can usefully contribute? Seems like there's not a whole lot of options there... Especially for non-US people (because right or wrong, a lot of countries tend to follow in the footsteps of the US. If Net Neutrality officially dies there, it won't be long before it dies in many other places in the world.)
I agree tweetstorms will probably result in a few articles and that'd be that...
I’m switching my cellphone from Verizon to Credo. (Due to Verizon’s successful lobbying campaign for this and other, related moves by the FCC).
Credo uses Verizon as its underlying network, for better, or worse. I know exactly what coverage to expect, and I’ll be feeding less money to the beast.
(Credo is a politically-active progressive company, with a good privacy policy and warrant transparency. Verizon has historically been none of these things, other than “politically active”).
Also, I don’t have decent sonic.net or unwired ltd coverage at the house, but if you are in the SF Bay Area, it’s worth taking a look at them (instead of comcast/at&t).
I used sonic.net. They advertised (and still do) $40/mo internet, but turned out it's $40 plus phone taxes (they sell only internet+phone, no option to decouple) + equipment rental + other stuff, so first it was $55/mo and then they raised it to $65/mo - 2/3 higher than their advertised price. I switched to other provider as soon as my contract lock-in expired. Oh yes, and they dinged me for another month as a parting gesture, because apparently you can't just cancel with them as with other providers, you have to wait a month to be able to cancel. Nope, thanks, never again. I've heard a lot of horror stories about comcast/at&t, but neither of them tried pull such tricks on me.
Yeah i don't get these passive-aggressive suggestions at all.
I have in the past seen people switch their twitter "avatar" to highlight certain causes, and i guess that for the most part it basically acts like a pacifier for the user as they get to feel they have done something.
If you can do something better to protect Net Neutrality, do that, but it's not like bringing attention to an issue isn't going to make any difference. They'll think twice about enacting something like this when half the country knows that they're actively working against them. Revolutions are unlikely, but they probably don't want to risk it too much either.
It's a nice sentiment but somewhere around 80% if the country wants to maintain NN. And it's not as if the FCC doesn't know this -- their position has been for a while that they know better and that mass support of NN doesn't rest on technical merit but the influence of tech companies that have a financial interest in NN.
Shouting louder probably isn't good to do anything.
I accept the premise of your comment, though it would be a shame not to harness any passion for the topic with some suggestions of what might be the 'something useful' you are suggesting ?
Sigh. I don't know who made that page but if they thing tweeting every 10 minutes or changing your job desc on LinkedIn will get anyone's attention, yet more everyone's, it's not even wrong. It's just sad.
Moreover, everyone's attention would be completely useless, as everyone, especially everyone who reads random twitter feeds of people that have time for such shenanigans, have absolutely zero input to FCC decisions.
Of course, you can do all this and feel you contributed to a great struggle. Or you might spend this time doing something useful. That's always an option.