Thursday, April 16, 2015

Net neutrality is now a video game


One of the past year’s greatest political victories is that net neutrality — a slightly wonky name for a set of rules governing which companies can send which traffic at which speed from which carrier — has become a hot enough political topic to draw millions of messages to the FCC, Congress, and the White House. So maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s now a video game about fighting an evil ISP intent on throttling your traffic. What’s more surprising is that it’s actually fun.


404Sight is created by Retro Yeti, a team of students from the University of Utah’s Entertainment Arts and Engineering program. It’s a running game set in a surreal pastel manifestation of cyberspace, where bandwidth is life and "fast lanes" are hidden...


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