{"id":4754,"date":"2014-05-17T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:01:11","slug":"three-efforts-for-defending-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/three-efforts-for-defending-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Efforts for Defending Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Internet Citizens: Defend Net Neutrality\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wtt2aSV8wdw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4764\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4764\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/net-neutrality-is-under-attack.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Net Neutrality is Under Attack!&quot; illustration by Free Press. Used under creative commons.\" width=\"320\" height=\"367\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4764\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/net-neutrality-is-under-attack.jpg 320w, https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/net-neutrality-is-under-attack-279x320.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4764\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Net Neutrality is Under Attack!&#8221; illustration by <a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/net-neutrality-is-under-attack-tn.jpg\">Free Press<\/a>. Used under creative commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s protest &#8212; both in Washington and all over our newsfeeds this week &#8212; over the imposing possibility of favored treatment to companies that pay for a new &#8220;fast lane&#8221; on the Internet. In an ongoing back-and-forth at the Federal Communications Commission, there&#8217;s currently &#8220;proposed rules, drafted by Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and his staff, [that] would allow Internet service providers to charge companies different rates for faster connection speeds,&#8221; says the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/04\/24\/technology\/fcc-new-net-neutrality-rules.html\">The New York Times.<\/a> Here are three efforts of defending so-called net neutrality, which affects filmmakers and audiences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;We keep taking steps backwards. Why it&#8217;s important we fight the impending legislation again,&#8221; notes artist\/designer Aaron Koblin alongside his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronkoblin\/status\/466712567986286592\">recently share<\/a> of CGP Grey&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wtt2aSV8wdw\">explainer video on defending net neutrality<\/a>, which is embedded above.<\/li>\n<li>If the FCC has its way, it would be slower to visit certain services, and cost more to have a faster connection per site, regardless of your ISP connection. To demo this effect just for the FCC, a software developer in Portland named Kyle Drake recently wrote some code that <a href=\"https:\/\/neocities.org\/blog\/the-fcc-is-now-rate-limited\">slows your site down only &#8212; if you work from the FCC headquarters.<\/a> Hosted on Github, other developers have re-written it for different servers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/05\/fcc-throttling\/\">Wired<\/a> picked up the story. (via director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/checkwowski\/status\/467376080500711425\">Matt Checkowski<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Dan Aronson, the CTO at Fandor, which is a streaming film service that competes with Netflix and iTunes, wrote an informed article called <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.fandor.com\/2014\/04\/24\/why-net-neutrality-matters-to-independent-filmmakers-and-viewers\/\">&#8220;Why Net Neutrality Matters to Independent Filmmakers and Viewers.&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/article\/why-indie-filmmakers-should-care-about-net-neutrality\">Indiewire<\/a> also republished the article. Aronson points to next steps which include the goal of reaching 100,000 signatures on the <a href=\"https:\/\/petitions.whitehouse.gov\/petition\/maintain-true-net-neutrality-protect-freedom-information-united-states\/9sxxdBgy\">WhiteHouse.gov Petitions microsite by May 24th<\/a>, and it&#8217;s 75% there.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> Re-published today on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indiewire.com\/thompsononhollywood\/net-neutrality-indie-filmmakers\">Thompson on Hollywood<\/a> today, there&#8217;s another great piece by Chris Dorr called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaldorr.com\/2014\/05\/19\/indie-film-needs-an-open-internet\/\">&#8220;Indie Film needs an Open Internet.&#8221;<\/a> The author cites many film festivals backing the need, but asks an open-ended question: which organization will lead the effort?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s protest &#8212; both in Washington and all over our newsfeeds this week &#8212; over the imposing possibility of favored treatment to companies that pay for a new &#8220;fast lane&#8221; on the Internet. In an ongoing back-and-forth at the Federal Communications Commission, there&#8217;s currently &#8220;proposed rules, drafted by Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}