Episode 616 • • 2:52:03 - 2:53:35
616: Jihadi Disneyland
NeoCities Throttles FCC Website to Dial-Up Speeds
In a protest against the FCC's net neutrality proposals, the web hosting service NeoCities identified the FCC's internal IP range and throttled their connection speeds to 28.8kbps. This "slow lane" treatment is intended to give the agency a firsthand experience of the packet inequality that critics argue their policies will create for the general public.