The End of the Internet?

[Mrspeeker]

~snip~ The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out. ~snip~

Link: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

WOW chilling, dont know if anyone else posted this!

[liberal N proud]

1. Surprised that haven't already done it

It is the one place they don't have their greedy little paws and one place the regime doesn't have control and it is pissing them off.


GREED! That is all that drives this nation today, FUCKING GREED!

[SeattleVet]

2. Here ya go!

http://www.mythologic.net/end.html

"The end of the Internet"