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Yes. It's been in the works for a while now - split the traffic lane in two and charge for guaranteed, priority traffic, and let the rest go free. Easy way to turn the Internet into another service which is mostly for the haves, while the have-nots will have to share the rest.

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Yeah, and I don't mind paying for the service I have now....

 

but they're talkin' about tracking EVERYTHING we do and placing charges on EVERYTHING. Which is ABSURD, and SCARY.

 

The internet is so free, right now.

I can learn anything

talk to anyone

right now.

 

Despite their greedy efforts

do you think there will always be a

"freedom channel"

like there is now?

 

I'm studying computer technology (have been since I was a kid, but I'm actually in college now) and I would like to be one of the people that keeps this portal open!!!!!!

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Despite their greedy efforts

do you think there will always be a

"freedom channel"

like there is now?

 

I think so, yes. Seeing as so many businesses are built on the fact that using the net is free (well, usually only free for students, households usually pay for their access but not actual usage) I think they will have to find other methods.

 

I think the "guaranteed traffic lane" is more directed at large publishers and websites with tons of cash (ie Google et al) so that they can make sure people get to use them, while others are harder to reach or download more slowly because they can't afford to pay to offer their content. Like Hypography, for example - we'd never be able to pay more than what we already do for servers. If we also had to PAY for people to be able to use our site, that would sort of kill the Internet as we know it. I don't think it's likely. It's possible, though.

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Like Hypography, for example - we'd never be able to pay more than what we already do for servers. If we also had to PAY for people to be able to use our site, that would sort of kill the Internet as we know it. I don't think it's likely. It's possible, though.

 

That's when we'd break out the old 286 and get a BBS going. :doh:

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Internet today is like Tea was about a century ago (in India) at that time tea companies used to distribute free tea packets to the general public. Today tea has become the "national beverage" in India, almost everyone needs to drink it, and also pay for it; minimum 1 cent (as per the current conversion rate of INR and USD). That's the same story everywhere, clever business people first get you hooked at very low charges, and once people get hooked any charge is allowed!;)

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There will always be a 'free lane' on the Internet. Think of it like a freeway. If the freeways became toll roads the government could (and would) say - well you can always walk to work. Thats free - right???

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There will always be a 'free lane' on the Internet. Think of it like a freeway. If the freeways became toll roads the government could (and would) say - well you can always walk to work. Thats free - right???

Its one thing for the government to do that. At least we know that when we're paying our toll, its for things that we get back as "the people."

 

Its an entirely different thing when the highway is *private*, its the *only* highway, and because there's more money in it, the owners of the highway want to reserve 3 of the 4 lanes exclusively for big rigs because their friends own those companies and they'll get kickbacks to boot.

 

Net Neutrality Now! GO TO Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom and tell your representatives and the FCC that you don't want to be told by AT&T that you can *only* buy from Amazon unless you're willing to wait an hour for your assigned slot to buy from your favorite smalltime book seller.

 

Use it or lose it,

Buffy

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Think its not going to happen? Here are just a few shenanigans that are already happening (read the full post at Firedoglake):

  • In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.
  • In 2005, Canada’s telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.
  • Shaw, a major Canadian cable, internet, and telephone service company, intentionally downgrades the “quality and reliability” of competing Internet-phone services that their customers might choose — driving customers to their own phone services not through better services, but by rigging the marketplace.
  • In April, Time Warner’s AOL blocked all emails that mentioned EchoDitto – an advocacy campaign opposing the company’s pay-to-send e-mail scheme.

 

Five days left! Complain now! Save The Internet!

 

Fighting monopolies is a family value,

Buffy

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hey buffy, how about something that will cheer people up?
That's me! Ms. Cheerleader! :phones:

 

I'm all cheerleady! :lol: :hyper: :magic: :fire: :hihi: :eek: :doh:

 

hate reading about more problems, its like, they are all around, and yet, here you go, some more for you.... :(
True, but when you're about to lose everything, its a good idea to warn people.

 

What if Paul Revere had thought that it might be good to warn that the British were coming, but didn't want to be all negativy?

 

The Telecom Oligarchs are coming! The Telecom Oligarchs are coming!

Net Neutrality Now!

 

Yankee Slayer,

Buffy

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