Web host gives FCC a 28.8Kbps slow lane in net neutrality protest

[herding cats]

12. A bit more of his statment from The Consumerist

“The FCC isn’t doing their job of protecting American consumers, or producers like Neocities users,” writes the company’s Kyle Drake. “Perhaps they got a dump truck full of money from the cable corporation lobby, or perhaps they’re too busy surfing Neocities sites. Well either way, it looks like they need some help remembering what their job is.”

Drake says he won’t lift the throttling “until the FCC pays us for the bandwidth they’ve been wasting instead of doing their jobs protecting us from the ‘keep America’s internet slow and expensive forever’ lobby.”

To that end, NeoCities is offering Wheeler, et al, what it dubs The Ferengi Plan:

The Ferengi plan is a special FCC-only plan that costs $1000 per year, and removes the 28.8kbps modem throttle to the FCC. We will happily take Credit Cards, Bitcoin, and Dogecoin from crooked FCC executives that probably have plenty of money from bribes on our Donations page (sorry, we don’t accept Latinum yet).

http://consumerist.com/2014/05/09/web-host-protests-botched-net-neutrality-by-throttling-fcc-to-dial-up-speeds/

Perfect!