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What do you all think of this alternate version of the loader that rips on Comcast?

http://rubbingalcoholic.com/#ALWAYS_SHOW_SL_WIDGET_COMCAST

If anyone wants to help out with this or give me feedback directly, please email me jeff@rubbingalcoholic.com

How about something that much more closely resembles slow page loading? Pop an explainer / action callout modal while the page slowly reveals itself, something like this:

http://jsfiddle.net/dpemmons/3zSSk/3/embedded/result/

I think this gets the point across more clearly, and I'd be much more likely to install this on my sites. The fact that you're immediately giving at least some context would make me a lot less confused as a user, and the site loading in the background makes it obvious that I'm in the right place to begin with.

While you guys obviously have a message to get out (a great message), you may want to consider adding a link someone could click to get rid of the widget and load the site immediately. Imagine that you saw four sites with the widget, then emailed your congresspeople, and now you have to keep dealing with them all throughout the day even if you already took action...it'd be annoying.

Thanks for all the work on this!

Also, let's not confuse people. The target is the FCC. We want people to contact FCC and complain about their (proposed) policies. If you're going to involve brands and logos, use theirs.

Be careful -- practically speaking, using Comcast's and TWC's names/logos is more likely to attract their attention early, and will give their lawyers a stronger argument (against Github or third-party sites) to have it taken down.

     will give their lawyers a stronger argument

No it won't. Using the name and marks of the FCC to dicuss policy and actions by the FCC is clearly fair use.

I've edited to be clearer -- I'm referring to the use of Comcast's (and Time Warner's) logos, not the FCC's.

I agree that there are fair use arguments, which is why I said "practically": hosts take down fair-use content every day. A subset of that is eventually restored, but only after the parties have argued it out (frequently through their lawyers).

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