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Best idea I've heard so far is to intentionally slow traffic only for known government IP blocks. If we can convince Google, Wikipedia, and other big sites to do this, Washington would definitely notice. I'm thinking of writing a script that site owners could use to do just this.


See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7712345

You may want to get in touch with rubbingalcoholic/FFTF and see if you can help out!

I've demoed the widget they're working on and it's painfully awesome.


Thanks! I sent them an email. If anyone else is reading this later, my code is here: https://gist.github.com/matthewdfuller/69f990f58f1e0850443e

It's pure JS and simulates the old dial-up-style loading of pages.




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