It would be far more effective to go picket in front of City Hall to keep them from throwing up stupid roadblocks to companies who want to build fiber and other competing infrastructure in their cities: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21477376-Wilmington-CityDE-... http://williamcole.net/what-are-we-chopped-liver-where-is-ba... http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20140219/TECHNOLOGY/140... http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/04/25/att_you_want_to_put....

"The mayor [of New York] recognizes this as an economic justice issue, and economic justice issues tend to be fought in the courts," said Andrew Rasiej, chairman of the NY Tech Meetup. "It's natural that [the mayor's] counsel would be engaged in that fight."

When you turn fiber deployment into an "economic justice issue" you can't be surprised that nobody wants to compete in your community.

Great for what looks like a spontaneous turnout!! Every bit helps (look at this photo/post reaching the top of hacker news) -- I've been a part of much smaller demonstrations :-)

Net neutrality needs to be protected & it's great many are getting involved and angry about this & not just because their netflix is going up $1 and they're already paying Verizon or Comcast or someone else a small fortune every year. I predicted abuses like Verizon 5+ years ago and strongly advocated to only allow what I call "Net Prejudice" or prejudicial networks (what Verizon/Cisco euphemistically call QoS) if there is no additional payment involved, otherwise such networks would strongly tend to be extortionist. Sadly only Wikipedia & the Economist of more mainstream publications picked up on it & cited the warning.

(Great coverage from Golden Frog & I love their VyprVPN though Hulu seems to have them and everyone figured out ;-)

It's disgusting that this is necessary but it's a fight we have to win.

Not to be overly obvious about this, but we're asking a pool of power (the FCC) to use their weakly held power to force another pool of power (large companies) to do things for us, the public (a highly distributed pool of power). Given the public's trust has been continuously violated by the US Government over the past years, I'm not sure why we're expecting much out of them and why we're not looking for other ways to implement a fair and equitable Internet for ourselves, by ourselves.

Looking at the blockchain for answers.

When I saw the url goldenfrog.com I thought they were playing a game of real life Frogger to represent slow lane/fast lane internet speeds.

Needless to say, I was disappointed.

Shite turnout.

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I used to be unconvinced that physical 'on location' demonstrations with signs and whatnot were useful. I no longer think that.

Now I suspect that they are actively harmful. The moment you do that, you invite easy comparisons between yourself/your cause and several heavily maligned causes/groups which use similar tactics, such as anti-abortion protesters, tea party groups, and worse of all: "Occupy [location]" groups.

If the objective is to increase public awareness, then there are more media-savvy ways of going about that. If the objective is to influence the opinions of the people who are in the immediate geographic neighborhood of your protest, then it might work but not in the way that you intended... You will likely inspire disdain where there was once apathy.