The Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a controversial "fast lane" proposal Thursday, and it's inspired a bunch of people to protest by slowing down their own websites.

Last week, a Web hosting company called Neocities throttled its home page, and MaxCDN gave customers the option of doing the same—but this only slowed websites down for people connecting from an FCC IP address. Now, there's an easy way to throttle your website for everyone who visits.

Venture capitalist Brad Feld announced the project Wednesday. There's a Stop The Slow Lane page and a small bit of code on GitHub that inserts the "slow lane" widget on a website.

"The FCC could soon let Internet providers charge websites to access a bogus 'fast lane' and slow down every site that doesn't pay," Feld wrote. "Do you want a slower Internet? Neither do we. Show the world what the FCC's 'slow lane' looks like by embedding the #StopTheSlowLane Widget on your site!"

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says his proposal won't actually allow slow lanes. Internet service providers would be able to charge Web services for faster access to consumers under his plan, but non-priority content would travel at the same speed as it does today, he argues.

Many network neutrality proponents aren't buying that, of course, as you can see with this snarky widget they built:

The widget was built by volunteer coders such as Jeff Lyon, who put it on his own site. After waiting through an excruciating loading screen, visitors see this:

If you're looking to protest both the FCC's proposal and the pending Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, there's a widget for that too:

There have also been some protesters camped out in front of the FCC building. We'll have plenty of coverage of proceedings at the FCC Thursday.