Death of Free Internet is Imminent
Posted July 22nd, 2008 by zoi
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Death of Free Internet is Imminent
Canada Will Become Test Case
By Kevin Parkinson
Global Research, July 20, 2008
In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because of the Internet. There are approximately 1 billion Internet users in the world B and any one of these users can theoretically communicate in real time with any other on the planet. The Internet has been the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century by far, and has been recognized as such by the global community.
The free transfer of information, uncensored, unlimited and untainted, still seems to be a dream when you think about it. Whatever field that is mentioned- education, commerce, government, news, entertainment, politics and countless other areas- have been radically affected by the introduction of the Internet. And mostly, it's good news, except when poor judgements are made and people are taken advantage of. Scrutiny and oversight are needed, especially where children are involved.
However, when there are potential profits open to a corporation, the needs of society don't count. Take the recent case in Canada with the behemoths, Telus and Rogers rolling out a charge for text messaging without any warning to the public. It was an arrogant and risky move for the telecommunications giants because it backfired. People actually used Internet technology to deliver a loud and clear message to these companies and that was to scrap the extra charge. The people used the power of the Internet against the big boys and the little guys won.
However, the issue of text messaging is just a tiny blip on the radar screens of Telus and another company, Bell Canada, the two largest Internet Service Providers (ISP'S) in Canada. Our country is being used as a test case to drastically change the delivery of Internet service forever. The change will be so radical that it has the potential to send us back to the horse and buggy days of information sharing and access.
In the upcoming weeks watch for a report in Time Magazine that will attempt to smooth over the rough edges of a diabolical plot by Bell Canada and Telus, to begin ...
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The only way to stop them is
The only way to stop them is not support the big media companies. Don't buy any of the DVDs/Cds/books from the big six and sell the ones you do have.
Read this thread about it
http://www.dailypaul.com/...
Consumers still have a little power
A simple choice can become very powerful especially if millions of others chose likewise. The bottom line IS the bottom line and corporations understand that premise completely.
On the same subject but a different company, will the public stop buying Bud because they sold out to the Euro? If China buys GM, will sales of Buick, Satern and Chevy slow even more? Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
No Sources
There are no sources or links provided to support the assertion, and it sounds far too much like other similar threats of the past. Without any evidence to show that this is indeed happening, I am not going to allow myself to get worked up on this.
bump from Canada
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Stupid article
So how do you propose to stop internet capitalism? Big government?
I see a shining new opportunity here
for some enterprising people to set up a new telco and ISP service that goes around the bastards that try to do this.
I think these companies don't really grasp how much anger that something like they plan will create in the public.
This is something much larger than just a political candidacy where the voters are balkanized. This is a situation where there are a couple of hundred million users that will all be very united to stop this, or find some way around it.
These companies are going to cut their own throats with this greedy activity.
Right. The Internet is
Right. The Internet is worldwide and cannot be corporate-censored.
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