If you venture over to Battle For the Net, which encourages internet users to call Congress to advocate for the preservation of net neutrality rules, you’ll find something peculiar: Several of the top sites that direct calls are Phish-related. From a report: As someone on Twitter pointed out, the traffic from phish.net — which describes itself as “a non-commercial project run by Phish fans and for Phish fans” — appears to be coming from a pop-up message that greets visitors to the site. The same pop-up, which directs to www.battleforthenet.com, appears when you visit the site’s forums and setlist pages. So, it appears that Phish fans, while in the midst of discussing their favorite extended noodling sessions, are leading the charge to save us from our impending telecom-dominated hellscape. Thanks, guys!” Phish.net sees over 400,000 unique visitors each month, according to web analytics firm SimilarWeb. In July, the website served over one million unique visitors.

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Source: Slashdot – Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality