Internet Neutrality may quite possibly be doomed

[ThirdMarioBro]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060702108.html

Net-Nutrality is being votedo on in congress. If it falls, the internet we know will eventually go with it and become more like Cable TV in the way it works. Here is a sample of the article

Originally Posted by Washington Post

Without net neutrality, the Internet would start to look like cable TV. A handful of massive companies would control access and distribution of content, deciding what you get to see and how much it costs. Major industries such as health care, finance, retailing and gambling would face huge tariffs for fast, secure Internet use -- all subject to discriminatory and exclusive dealmaking with telephone and cable giants.

We would lose the opportunity to vastly expand access and distribution of independent news and community information through broadband television. More than 60 percent of Web content is created by regular people, not corporations. How will this innovation and production thrive if creators must seek permission from a cartel of network owners?

Congress is deciding on the fate of the Internet. The question before it is simple: Should the Internet be handed over to the handful of cable and telephone companies that control online access for 98 percent of the broadband market? Only a Congress besieged by high-priced telecom lobbyists and stuffed with campaign contributions could possibly even consider such an absurd act.

We may all quite possibly be fu*ked. Money is all that matters to those old bastards. This came out of no where and scares me to death.

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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6081882.html

Too late. It's been killed. Internet providers now have the ability in America to dictate what sites you are, and are not allowed to see on the internet. Believe me, they will leverage this when their buisness partners pay them off. If you don't pay up, you're put on the ISP's black list. Now I want the world to take the internet from America. We're handing it to big buisness to convert into another "big boyz only" cooperate marketing hell hole such as Television. Its all downhill from here. Also, the cable companies now get to dictate alongside the govenment (ka-ching) what internet speeds American homes are allowed to have. Say goodbye to the possibilies of 1Gig per second power line internet that Japanese colleges are now enjoying. Cox and Comcast have saved themselves, and once again placed us in the technological dark age. Your ISP now gets to dictate what you can and cannot see. Welcome to the world of "liberal and conservitive internet access". Companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast now get to decide which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. Hell, IGN could pay providers to make sure all competing websites are blocked. Then CNET could get IGN blocked, and so forth and so forth. Here are more reasons why we are all condemned to a future commercialist interent society.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/=threat

The free internet is dead.