<story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &amp;#x27;don&amp;#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;#x27;raise awareness&amp;#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.&lt;p&gt;This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&amp;#x27;t worry we won&amp;#x27;t risk clicks to show you).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s even if you see it. I&amp;#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&amp;#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.&lt;p&gt;When your solution to a problem is &amp;#x27;don&amp;#x27;t really do anything about it&amp;#x27; don&amp;#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>epi16</author><text>I say the same thing every time I read a &amp;quot;slacktivism&amp;quot; post, but here we go again: if this is useless, what do I actually do to help? Seriously, I&amp;#x27;m not posing this as rhetoric.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve already filed a fairly long, unique comment to the FCC, but I&amp;#x27;ve heard that the FCC ignores most comments unless they come from well-known players.&lt;p&gt;I donate money monthly to the EFF.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve signed the letter to the lawmakers on Battle for the Net.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have a personal website, so I can&amp;#x27;t put up a banner ad.&lt;p&gt;So, given that I&amp;#x27;ve heard comments on this site and in person that all of the above counts as slacktivism, just makes me feel better, and doesn&amp;#x27;t contribute to an actual solution, what do I do to influence this issue? Ignoring the possibility of coming into large sums of money and buying myself a congressman of my very own?</text></comment>
<story><title>Participate in the “Internet Slowdown” with one click</title><url>https://blog.cloudflare.com/participate-in-the-internet-slowdown-with-one-click</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mhurron</author><text>This has to be one of the most useless campaigns. Yet another slactivist &amp;#x27;don&amp;#x27;t really do anything but damnit feel like you did.&amp;#x27;&lt;p&gt;It doesn&amp;#x27;t &amp;#x27;raise awareness&amp;#x27; (more slactivism). People have heard of Net Neutrality.&lt;p&gt;This does nothing to educate about it. There is no information here, just Oggie Boogie scary shit might happen (but don&amp;#x27;t worry we won&amp;#x27;t risk clicks to show you).&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s even if you see it. I&amp;#x27;ve been to reddit off and on all morning, I happened to finally notice the very small black box in the corner with the stupid vague message. No idea when it showed up. I was starting to think reddit wasn&amp;#x27;t even going to bother with a banner. I&amp;#x27;m willing to bet most people will be the same way since, again, no one is willing to risk some ad impressions to actually put anyone out.&lt;p&gt;When your solution to a problem is &amp;#x27;don&amp;#x27;t really do anything about it&amp;#x27; don&amp;#x27;t be surprised when shit happens.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>untog</author><text>&amp;quot;People have heard of Net Neutrality.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;People&amp;quot; have, but most of the internet-using population haven&amp;#x27;t. Not saying this is the best method, but don&amp;#x27;t be fooled into thinking that everyone is aware of what&amp;#x27;s going on.</text></comment>