Political Bloviation

The End of the Internet?
Greed knows no bounds in our large telco oligopies. Not only do they want to charge us for the pipe, they want to charge us for the content. In the process they have to know exactly what the content is and feed it into a mamouth database. In order for this to happen telcos need to kill of the remnants of the “common carrier” concept and turn the internet into a private network. This is a very bad idea for all players involved, particularly the public, except for the ATT, Verizon, Bellsouth and Comcasts of the world. It’s tied to their wish of eliminating “network neutrality.” The privacy implications of massive data mining of the internet are staggering. It’s anti-consumer in the extreme and needs to be strongly opposed.

Also see:
The Coming Tug of War Over the Internet
Network Neutrality And Natural Monopolies
the fiction zone that DC has become
Here’s Hoping Congress Keeps the Pipes Open

Thanks to antimedia

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