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The Creation of the Universe...I mean, the Internet



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Cool video about the creation of the internet and the issue of net neutrality.
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7 responses // The Creation of the Universe...I mean, the Internet

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    We must break the cycle of media-ownership that has continually prohibited ordinary people from having a voice. It happened with print, it happened with radio, it happened with television, and if we don't start making some fucking noise NOW, it will happen to the Internet. It will be a slow, invisible process, and once our power to speak out is diminished, it will be much more difficult to get it back. It's time to stop being a passive, reactive citizenry and start being proactive about our rights and freedoms.

    Please take 5 minutes to call or fax your representative in Congress and urge them to support The Internet Freedom Preservation Act of 2008 (HR 5353). Your voice really will make a difference.
    beedee
  • No doubt about it. The cycle must be broken. the sooner this happens, the better.

    JT
    http://www.Privacy-Center.net
    greenfoxone
  • If, and let me stress "if" this were to happen where AT&T and other corporations were allowed to control all the content that consumers see would it be like 1984 where the highest level officials could turn the volume down on their TV? Would the elite be able to have access to the entire Internet while the rest of us are stuck with what they give us?
    wesdenton
  • In order to solve this problem, we need to take the 2500 year old story of Lysistrata (the one where the women withhold sex to achieve their aims), and give it a modern twist.

    The major companies are screwing us and deriving great pleasure from it (i.e. money and control). We also derive pleasure from the act (i.e. use of the internet), but we are slowly losing our freedom in the process.

    It is time to deny the big companies their pleasure – in essence, we need to boycott the internet. The companies will then be willing to concede to our demands.

    Of course, we’re all so addicted to the internet and it’s become such a part of our lives, that breaking away from the internet for even a short while will be very difficult to achieve. But being “over-surfed” is another great reason why we need a break.

    It needs to be done if only for our health… and our freedom.
    HappyTime
  • I agree with this video that free speech for everyone in the internet is an important thing. However comparing internet to radio regulation is rather dumm because radio is completely different kind of technology. Radio uses radio frequensies to transmit sound and there is a finite number of these frequensies. If everyone could freely start their radio station the frequencies would be flooded.
    The internet analogy would be that the domain names could not be registered. For example I could start website using domainname google.com and everyone trying to access google close to the server with my webpage in it would be directed to my webpage instead of google.
    jargo
  • HappyTime, your rebuttal is flawed. Yes, the internet and radio are different in that the radio spectrum is comparatively much more finite than the IP (especially IPv6) space, but corporations aren't necessarily going after the IP space, they are going after the communication medium itself. There could be billions of sites or IPs available, but if your internet service provider could simply denies your access to them. What these companies are going after is your ability to connect to the internet as well as what you can and cannot do once connected, not people's ability to buy domain names or own IP addresses (though they could go after that as well).

    I'm old enough to remember when Compuserv was big. One thing I remember is that my parents had to sit by my side as I explored the "internet" under Compuserv as any sites that were within the Compuserv network were free but domains and sites outside their network cost PER PAGE VIEW and you could easily rack up a bill if you weren't careful. That's the model these companies are going after. They determine what you have access to and IF they permit access outside their network they want to charge for it.
    Temujin_12
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