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Originally posted by Skyfloating
Some really grim paranoia around here
Its much too late to control "the" internet much less restrict access to "it", unless electricity is turned off. Wondering who is more delusional...those who desire to restrict the Internet or those who are afraid its actually going to happen...
There is no such thing as "the" internet in the sense of one monopolized entity that can be restricted or controlled.
Originally posted by quackers
The Telecoms Reform Package has sod all to do with net neutrality or free speech or restricting the internet. If anything it's about controlling monopolies and providing a basic level of quality of service to the average consumer. The problem here is that people are all to quick to believe some moron bloggers personal interpritation rather than read it for themselves. That would require effort and people are lazy so instead opt for the FUD/bandwagon approach.
What people fail to realize is that the internet has never been free, it has never belonged to the people and the only reason they can view sites like this is becuase the "facsists" they like to whine about have invested heavily in the broadband infrastructure that they have the misguided opinion somehow belongs to them. I'm pretty sure that there is some sort of underlying irony in there somewhere. The internet isn't yours, it isn't mine and as with any other service you pay for, if you don't feel you're getting value for your money, stop paying for it.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Some really grim paranoia around here
Its much too late to control "the" internet much less restrict access to "it", unless electricity is turned off. Wondering who is more delusional...those who desire to restrict the Internet or those who are afraid its actually going to happen...
There is no such thing as "the" internet in the sense of one monopolized entity that can be restricted or controlled.
Alex Jones August 4th 2008 - the 'powers-that-be' plan to turn the Internet into nothing more than a glorified cable TV system where access to anything other than mainstream sites will be highly restricted
blackouteurope - It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to access and to put up content could be severely restricted.
blackouteurope - Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options' which people can choose from. People will be offered TV-like packages - with a limited number of options for you to access.
Originally posted by tempest501
Its funny you know because, I think, I was prob one of the biggest skeptics out there to all this NWO stuff. In fact i got so sick of it I started to look into things for myself. Now, sure enough there is alot of rubbish and disinfo out there but i am starting to see that alot of you guys are right. Im not ashamed to admit i was wrong.
We must not let them take the internet away from us. The internet is literally waking ppl up and giving ppl like myslef the tools to research things for them selfs so they can see the truth.
I dont know how we can do it but we must figure it out one way or the other.
Peace
[edit on 4-5-2009 by tempest501]
The internet as we know it is at risk because of proposed new EU rules going through end of April. Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look at, and to tell you whether or not you are allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as ‘new consumer options' which people can choose from. People will be offered TV-like packages - with a limited number of options for you to access......
*It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to access and to put up content could be severely restricted.
Source:
Optus says 'yes' to internet filter plan Phillip Hudson April 23, 2009
OPTUS customers in Sydney and Newcastle will be asked to take part in the Federal Government's controversial test of internet filters. In a boost for the Government, the nation's second-largest internet service provider said yesterday it would take part in a six-week trial.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Some really grim paranoia around here
Its much too late to control "the" internet much less restrict access to "it", unless electricity is turned off. Wondering who is more delusional...those who desire to restrict the Internet or those who are afraid its actually going to happen...
There is no such thing as "the" internet in the sense of one monopolized entity that can be restricted or controlled.
STRASBOURG, France — The United States has too much control over the Internet and needs to give it up, a European Union bureaucrat declared Monday. EU Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding, a Luxembourgian, called for "full privatization" of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), demanding that it be removed from the supervision of the U.S. Department of Commerce when its operating agreement expires on Sept. 30.
"In the long run, it is not defendable that the government department of only one country has oversight of an Internet function which is used by hundreds of millions of people in countries all over the world," said Reding in a statement.
She purports to be calling for less, not more, government involvement in the Internet, using a free-market argument against the Commerce Department's control of ICANN.
Like the 2005 plan, Yet Reding may have undermined her own free-market argument by simultaneously proposing a new international body, a "G12 for Internet Governance" that would oversee ICANN and be made up of voting representatives from around the world.
Like the 2005 plan, that would essentially be handing over Internet control not to the free market, but to the same creaky collection of international bureaucrats who control the EU and the U.N. — which might mean a lot more government involvement in day-to-day Internet operations.
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Originally posted by Skyfloating
reply to post by Donkey_Dean
I dont mind google restricting crime. But if they start restricting too much, people will simply remember that google is only ONE of many Billions of websites and choose to go elsewhere. Google is not the Internet. Some like to believe so, but they are not.