How to participate
On September 10th, sites across the web will display an alert with a symbolic "loading" symbol (the proverbial “spinning wheel of death”) and promote a call to action for users to push comments to the FCC, Congress, and the White House, in support of an Internet Freedom Letter circulated by Senator Angus King and others. Note: none of these tools actually slow your site down; they tell your visitors about the issue and ask them to contact lawmakers.
Be creative! Grab peoples' attention with a loading symbol, and link to tools for emailing and calling lawmakers (e.g. battleforthenet.com). Whatever you decide, tell us you're participating, announce it publicly, and commit to getting *one* person or company with a *bigger* reach than you to join in as well. Got a question? Contact us.
Apps: do a push notification
If you have a mobile app, can you send just one push notification to
your users? Tell them that ISPs are threatening to slow your app, and
link them to https://www.battleforthenet.com.
Share these images!
We need as many people as possible to see this site, write Congress and the FCC, and keep fighting until we win. Can you post these images everywhere? You can share these images too.
Say you're in.
Are you participating? Tell us so we can list you, announce it to the
world, and invite others to join. Starting on 9/2 we’ll be announcing
which sites are in. Help us spread the word about the campaign by
tweeting something like
this
or
this.
Want to show your support in real life?
Get the Team Internet shirt (then post a photo, obv.)
You're our only hope.
This is the time to go big, visible, and strong - that's the only way
we can actually win this fight. We all need to get as many people in
our respective audiences motivated to do something. We can make this
epic, but only if you help. We need companies to be frontrunners,
leaders, and heroes on this, that’s the key ingredient to raising the
bar and making sure everyone goes big.
We realize it's a big ask, but this is the kind of bad internet
legislation that comes along (or gets this close to passing) once a
decade or so. If it passes we'll be kicking ourselves for
decades—every time a favorite site gets relegated to the slow
lane, and every time we have to rework or abandon a project because of
the uncertain costs paid prioritization creates. Doing the most we can
right now seems like the only rational step.
Let us know if you're interested in principle, and if there's
something you need from us to join:
evan@fightforthefuture.org