Pornhub, Redtube and Youporn join the general protest with a symbolic “slowdown” of the Internet

Dozens of Internet companies announced their participation in the Internet Slowdown on September 10, 2014. Participants oppose the abolition of network neutrality, when American Internet service providers get the right to set different parameters for transmitting traffic from different sites, depending on the agreements concluded.

In addition to Mozilla, Foursquare, Kickstarter, Reddit, Vimeo and many others, representatives of the porn industry - owners of the Pornhub, Redtube and Youporn sites (the most popular porn sites on the Internet) announced their participation in the “slowing down” of the Internet. On September 10, access to porn will not be slowed down, but each visitor will have to click to close the stub with information about the new initiative of American regulators from the FCC.
')
Porn sites owners expect that about 50 million people will see the social campaign!

Take part in the Battle of the Internet can be in different ways. It is best to place the form with a symbolic download icon, a call to call the senator and sign the network neutrality if people want to keep quick access to the content ( this is the form that will be placed on popular porn sites ).



Users are offered to install the same icon on avatars on social networks.



“Cable companies want to slow down (and close!) Your favorite sites for their profit. To resist, let's flood the Net with symbolic “Loading” icons. This will be a good example of what the Internet looks like without net neutrality. At the same time, we will send a record number of letters and calls to the legislators, ”the online campaign suggests.

The upload icon does not mean that sites will load slower than usual, it’s just a symbolic element, made in the spirit of a very effective campaign against SOPA and PIPA in 2012 , when sites also put stubs on their pages to protest against flawed legislation.