From: Nextgov
Some website operators are slowing down Federal Communications Commission employees’ access to their sites in protest of potential paid Internet fast lane regulations. On Thursday, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is expected to release a proposal that would let broadband providers charge sites for bandwidth-heavy content.
The hacktivist collective Anonymous is circulating through Twitter a file — dubbed “How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds on your site” — that makes a specific site load at a turtle’s pace for anyone using an IP address belonging to the FCC.
For example, if Nextgov.com used the configuration, then readers of Nextgov at the FCC would have trouble accessing our stories. The instructions provide actual FCC IP ranges. (Note to FCC readers: We don’t plan to do this.)
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