Ask HN: Would an Open Source Projects Revolt Restore Net Neutrality?

2 points by Zelphyr ↗ HN
I'm wondering if as a community we couldn't stage a revolt against the Ajit Pai's, Marsha Blackburn's, and ISP's? That revolt would be in the form of stopping all development and access to Open Source projects. Sites for these projects would be taken down and replaced with text explaining that everything about the project will be offline and unavailable until Congress passes strong legislation protecting Net Neutrality. Github repos would be taken down. No bugs would be fixed. No documentation would be available. Developers of those projects would agree to not support them in any way during the revolt.

Imagine the impact this would have. So many companies rely on Open Source software these days that almost immediately CEO's would start getting reports that key projects are delayed because their developers are having to do things the Open Source community would usually handle. Or that they no longer have access to documentation. Or that they can no longer download something. Those CEO's would very quickly be on the phone with the politicians. And, interestingly, many of the companies who will be impacted will be the ISP's themselves.

Is this doable? Would it work? Is this something the community is willing to take on? Would the major Open Source projects participate?

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