We at Omnimaga are for a free and open Internet. So it is natural for us to support the Net Neutrality movement fighting against the American FCC, big ISPs and their concept of fast lanes which would make big companies' websites go fast while slowing down everyone else, including our beloved Omnimaga.

We enabled the appropriate script for the day, it's a popup that lets you sign the petition and gives you more info on this. We encourage you to sign the petition, call your representative and spread the word!

Also a note for you non-Americans, you might think you are not concerned, but many of you have a website or a blog, and fast lanes would affect your American visitors... Omnimaga may be Canadian, but we still have this at heart.

Here's a few links fore more info:
https://www.battleforthenet.com/
http://tumblr.fightforthefuture.org/post/96647721693/the-internet-slowdown-is-coming-and-its-going-to-be

https://www.battleforthenet.com/sept10th/
https://www.netneutrality.com/

Thank you and may Omnimaga live forever free!

The issue is that it might not always remain just an USA and UK problem, because perhaps in the future the same thing will happen to other countries, if not already.

On the other hand, the fact this petition requires people to enter their home address and zip code is enough for people to not sign it. Some people who support this movement might still wish to keep their personal info private.

Oh, it was a script. I thought it was a virus and screenshotted it to show you guys
then I saw this

Yep this vid is epic
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Good thing I don't live in the states. I am going to check what the cable companies here in the Netherlands are up to though.

Yup, this is pretty epic

This script is actually pretty damn annoying. I thought I had some addware on my PC. Nice to know that isn't the case.

It's supposed to be annyoing

I don't think the contents of the petition are public.

Also seems they accepted my Canadian postcode o.o

Dangit, big companies are at it again.

I am against ISP's throttling data for unfair reasons, but I think that they should have the ability to route, create fast lanes and even throttle data. Many times this is necessary to provide good service to all customers. Personally I also think that people who pay more have right on more bandwidth.

But as always, any tool can be used for evil. ISP's can use it for evil, there have been cases where it has been done, but mainly they need it to provide a good service. Just as a knife can be used to kill someone, it can be used to chop food.

My personal opinion is that net neutrality is not the solution to the problem.

They should perhaps only throttle people who have no bandwidth cap but are abusing it, just so that other customers have good service no matter if someone else abuses it. They could probably also throttle websites that contains mostly torrent files or ones that have a poor safety record, but then you risk throttling a legit site with absolutely zero copyrighted material.


It shouldn't be used to restrict one's freedom of information or at the advantage of big coprporate companies that want more exposure. Besides, most big companies use horrible quality servers that are down 10% of the time so even if they had a fast lane it wouldn't help people accessing their site any more than others anyway.