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Andy Rooney (via wordsnquotes)

THIS EVERY DAY.

Ajit Pai’s Net Neutrality-killing order is scheduled to go into effect on April 23, and when that happens, it’ll be open season on the free, fair and open internet.

But it’s difficult to distinguish network discrimination from transient network congestion, overloaded servers and other facts of life; difficult, that is, unless you gather data from all over the internet and detect patterns over time.

That’s why you should participate in Northwestern University’s Wehe project, which uses Ios and Android apps to monitor your internet connection for sneaky throttling, pooling data with other users to document the ways in which ISPs are dirty-tricking your internet connection.

This data will be vital to overturning Trump’s FCC orders in the next administration and restoring and strengthening the US’s Net Neutrality rules; the FCC is only allowed to act in the face of evidence, so we need to gather that evidence.