Net Neutrality

[hoaxer]

You guys are gonna be shocked to hear this, but by 2012 you'll be paying for your internet service the same way you will for a cable package.

$25 will get you Myspace and MSN plus 20 websites..

$30 to get your premium websites.. google and shit...

You kinda see where I'm going?

The big media man is losing his control on the people... TV simply isn't as hypnotic as it used to be... remember how after 911 everyone was sucked into watching CNN, listening to nationalistic country music, and hating on sand niggars and disrespectful anti-war hippies?

Well recently the man lost its hold on the people... they're all watchin you-tube...

so they get the idea to buy it up..

They have a plan to use their gobs of cash to take the internet w/ brute force..

but I don't think they'll be able to do it if they dont get the people by surprise..

I mean theres no way in hell im gonna let some rich fuckin douchebag ruin the fucking internet.

So please... If you love the one true haven for free speech...

If you love bombshock...

Spread the word about net neutrality!

Do your research! I have no idea where they are right now in their plan, but i know theres already groups fighting for net neutrality..

Join the fight.

[hoaxer]

Microsoft tells Congress Yahoogle will own 90% of ad market

Well.. Score for them.

[Random]

Originally Posted by hoaxer

You guys are gonna be shocked to hear this, but by 2012 you'll be paying for your internet service the same way you will for a cable package.

Post a reputable third-party reference for this claim, and for every other claim of fact you make in this thread.

Do this, or don't post again.

[General Grim]

Random, I can confirm that what he's speaking of is a possibility as I've heard of it elsewhere.

[hoaxer]

Save the Internet : Fighting for Internet Freedom
Network neutrality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Net Neutrality
YouTube - Net Neutrality

As for the 2012 part which you quoted..

I Power

Random, I'm not one to bullshit.
Don't be an asshole.

[headcase]

I'm afreaid the logistics of t'internet are beyond me. What's to stop someone making a new internet?

[General Grim]

There completely isn't, privately run (free) websites will definitely be created.

[hoaxer]

They'll be treated the same way the FCC treats Pirate Radio.

[General Grim]

Well the difference this time is that running a radio station requires a licence, making the sender have to pay. Instead the receivers have to pay for net neutrality. It's not a matter of licensing as private networks aren't illegal. This is probably going to become one of those easily exploitable things that only saps pay for.

[headcase]

The range of pirate radio is also limited by the size of the transmitter, so it's difficult to broadcast from a "safe" place (be it an abandoned oil rig or a country with lax laws), which isn't an issue with the internet?

[General Grim]

Hmm... I wouldn't know, my knowledge of computers is limited. I'm guessing that they'd just go straight to the host and tell them to cease or face court. However, thinking about it, it wouldn't matter how personal webpages are set up as ISPs would collectively moderate all internet traffic and you'd be billed accordingly.

[Darkshadow666]

If any company ever tried that on the internet, every hacker in the world would destroy them.

[General Grim]

Not really, I know two hackers (one personal, the other through another person), they are incredibly talented in what they do. They are employed by businesses to look for flaws in their own website, for every flaw they discover they make a sum of money. Knowing Google, Yahoo and Microsoft they've probably employed a whole army worth of net security officers so these silly SQL injection hackers won't be able to do much.

[Darkshadow666]

it only takes one person finding one security vulnerability to screw things up good...

[General Grim]

It only takes a few minutes to discover a security violation, shut down the site temporarily and patch up that mistake.

[Darkshadow666]

True... unless, for example, someone hacked into a freewebs site and changed the email and password of it.

[General Grim]

Haha, what relevance is a silly freewebs site to some of the largest corporations in the world?

[LizzyReikoZ]

Wow, scary. I really don't think people would allow corporate assholes to get away with that though.

[Core Entropy]

Originally Posted by headcase

I'm afreaid the logistics of t'internet are beyond me. What's to stop someone making a new internet?

The internet was originally created to supply computers in the US and Britain with the information of Nuclear devices and to control them via the internet. 10 years later they took this system and plugged in the first two computers to have internet approximately a mile apart from each other. They knew that this would e a complex system so therefor instead of having one location where all the computers meet, they would have mini broadcasting locations to send the information wireless from one station to another. This still had implications so they decided to embed the internet in the cable lines, throwing up new problems. These problems were solved by embedding all of the Internets functions into different programs that linked each other together by following proxies into certain based sections of a computer, being lead there. Welcome to Internet Explorer 1

Now that they had figured out how to connect this together, they released this to the public. Only four servers were set up at the time, but people soon found out how to hack into them. These were made more secure by adding the http and the html tags. these tags made it so the person on the internet could only go to a site using text based transfers to text based areas.

Then came more people and servers. And then image embedding was allowed. Then the CSS. Then Java. Then Php and so on.

They mix of services on the internet gave it the nickname the web. since its world wide we have the www or the world wide web.

History helps.

Oh yes and to my point. The only way i see of us making our own internet is getting a bunch of people together and designing a dish system that could transmit a signal to each other and back. This would b slow but with enough people the signal could go quite far. There are problems in this idea but its pretty standard. Its like getting an antennae tv but using this for the internet.

So its possible.


And broadcasting your own internet this way is completely legal and does not need any type of permit. I checked.

[kikthecan]

So you will use google to search through 20 websites?

[Core Entropy]

If anything it will be the Government pushing the cable company into doing this. Plus i am already rigging up a pirate internet between my friends and i using local broadcasting so by the time it does happen ill be ready. But that's me.. lol.

[Hetfield]

This will never happen, I can guarentee it, if you were subscribing to websites they would be hard pushed to allow advertisments on the site aswell

There is far too much advertising revenue to be lost. As one of the benefits for paying a subscription fee now for a website is the lack of advertising!

Also, What is to stop anyone creating their own content, it cannot be stopped, think about it, the internet is not a physical entity. There is not one place, one big hard drive where the internet is stored. If you have a server (which isn't that hard) then you are not pushing that information onto anybody or violating anybodys space, rather the people accessing the info on your server are taking that data from you, so I personally beleive that this will be uncontrollable.

This is my opinion anyway, if you disagree please discuss

-Hetfield