Things look grim for net neutrality
 

Found these article on Lloyd Kaufman's Twitter account:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/technology/07net.html

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010...neutrality-fcc

Thanks, John.

The rich and powerful shall always try to decide what the lower and middle class shall see and hear.

Basically it boils down to Obama. If he stands up, this can be fixed through reclassification. If he chickens out, then we can look forward to paying $60 a month access for our "top 50 favs" list of websites and content filtering based on region. Foxnews.com for the Midwest, and msnbc.com for the big cities. Imagine conservatives being able to block access to liberal blogs in the south. Imagine Google and Ebay being able to pay a service provider to block access to the other's site in a certain region, or at least pay for preferential access speeds. Imagine Apple & AT&T being able to legally block access to what sites you can and can't see on the iPhone based on what suits their best interests. That's what the door is open to now.

The internet would become Cable TV 2.0. Pay to play, or get the hell out of the way. Comcast has already sent the plans for such a tiered internet to their investors. Now they just have to find a way to market it to make it sound to the people's benefit. My guess is that the telecoms will raise prices for what we have now to insane numbers, then provide a stripped down/filtered experience for a lower price to get the uneducated and poorer communities on board.

The last realm of true equality and free speech is about to become railroaded into corporate interests if Obama doesn't stand up and demand reclassification.

New info:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-s..._b_671617.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/te...cret.html?_r=2

I urge as many people as possible to join http://www.savetheinternet.com/