This is showing up if i access a site from outside of the US

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This is showing up if i access a site from outside of the US

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 8 comments

there is not point at all in annoying users if their ISP is not inside the US. Sending a letter to U.S. Congress will not have any affect on my local ISP.

Answer 1 · 2017-07-12T10:35:52.000Z

Agreed. I care about net neutrality, I do think it's important, and I'd sign any worldwide petition for it, but writing to the U.S. congress doesn't make any sense for me.

I find it odd that some of the most vocal proponents of a movement about the world wide web keep defaulting to one country.

Answer 2 · 2017-07-12T11:20:06.000Z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality#By_country provides other by country situational reports that may effect you and you can use today as a reminder to write to your representative about how bad things are in the US and that you are very glad they wouldn't do anything like that.

Answer 3 · 2017-07-12T11:34:49.000Z

this is actively being debated in almost every region of the world right now, and the status of rules in the US has had an influence in Europe and Latam. Also, because the US is a large market, if US ISPs get this power they will be able to drive many new sites or apps out of business regardless of where they are based, effectively deciding what the Internet looks like globally. Some sites are geofencing their messages but we decided not to build that in because it increases complexity and doesn’t just concern US users. When we helped make a similar widget for a campaign in the EU last year we set it to display to all users as well.

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Answer 4 · 2017-07-12T21:55:22.000Z

Indeed, however, this campaign (while it is) isn't neccessary a world wide campaign (Right now in this moment) , it is reflecting the FCC in the US about having a session and voting on to remove Net neutrality laws.

Answer 5 · 2017-07-13T00:11:58.000Z

the send a message box needs to be better, it assumes you are in USA

Answer 6 · 2017-10-16T20:43:29.000Z

#121 changed the widget action
to be even more US-centric, so we added a donate link with a specific callout for Not in the US? to help us continue this fight!

Answer 7 · 2017-12-13T01:26:50.000Z

im a canadian but am all for net neutrality world wide so i put the html code up on both of my canadian hosted websites because this whole FCC bs will affect my websites

Answer 8 · 2017-12-19T14:45:58.000Z

Moving this discussion to #145