2012: Free Internet Ends - unless we fight for "net neutrality"

[blueyes]

2012: Free Internet Ends - unless we fight for "net neutrality"

Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.



For more info visit:

http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/11229.php

[Ikarus]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/06/a-net-neutralit.html

[blueyes]

I hope it truly is a conspiracy theory.

[Nazarene4Life]

NOOOOOO! that would suck.... i am addicted to facebook and forums....

[Ikarus]

It's illegal in this country to restrict access to websites...except for things like child ****.

However, ISPs can slow down sites, like Comcast was doing with Bit Torrent.