Save The Internet

[MetalWarrior]

As we each know, the internet is a way to get and give information worldwide. It is the most used ressource of information. Internet is what each of you who are reading this uses each day. The uses range from watching a video on youtube to posting in a forum about anything you want to.

Ok... So this is the internet as we know it. But it might change. In fact, the Network Neutrality is in peril.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won't load at all.

They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking their competitors.

These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services — or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls — and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.

The big phone and cable companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars lobbying Congress and the Federal Communications Commission to gut Net Neutrality, putting the future of the Internet at risk.

Well, for more information on this subject you can visit
www.savetheinternet.com
And sign the petition for the Net Neutrality if you want the internet to be free.

 

[atropos007]

poor americans :> thats what you get for your freaking fast connections!

btw no one cares about internet petitions

 

[Dr00d]

People wll still find a way to do whatever they want online. I'm not worried. =/

 

[Horn]

First oil, now data.

 

[Horror.Man]

It appears to me, the world is becoming what a man by the name George Orwell feared the most. Big Brother will swallow our world whole, and when he's done, he'll make sure places like the internet become a highway where tyranny and individual disappearance are common place. Yes folks, the world is truly on a path where the end truly justifies the means...

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother" (George Orwell, 1984)

 

[brad.dude03]

poor americans :> thats what you get for your freaking fast connections!

btw no one cares about internet petitions

America has one of the least-developed ISP industries out there. Compared to Europe, America is still in the stone ages, as most people still have either dial-up, cheap DSL or 'broadband' which is just a fancy term for 256K.

 

[Killer_Girl1]

The internet will never stop flowing cause everybody needs it too high of demand for it to stop.

 

[Horn]

The beer will never stop flowing cause everybody needs it too high of demand for it to stop.

My view of the world!

 

[Captain Griffen]

So long as it is ISPs it's not too bad.

Once the backbones start getting in on the action we're screwed.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

i think this debate is quite old....like 2 years old. and since then i think some new legislation has been put in place which stops this from happening as much, or new laws are going to be passed soon. its the same idea as market monopolisation when a company legally cannot control more than 33% of the market to help compotition and the economy. basically the internet has already been saved; im not 100% sure tho coz i only saw a brief article on the net about it. anyways my connection is fine so i dont care.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Currently, no company in the US is actually doing this kind of stuff, but there are no laws against it, so the possibility for some type of biased web is very open.

 

[Killer_Girl1]

The internet is needed by everyone it will never die!

 

[brad.dude03]

Gas is needed by everyone too, but here in Canada the corporations are charging over a dollar a litre for it, when onlh 5 years ago it was roughly 70-80 cents.

These people, if they win, will certainly keep the internet open, but the way it will work is: the more important the site (aka the bigger the megacorporation your trying to find on the internet) the faster the page will load. So that way, www.cingular.com would load normally, where www.mctwisted.net would load very, very, slowly.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

This is physically impossible. 4chan would stop it, or at least talk about it a lot. They'd probably be the very first site to die.

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Well if it was possible, I'd hope Gaia Online is the one of the first sites companies decide to kill. Aside from the fact that Gaia is killing the best part of 4chan, it's just such a large collection of enormous idiots and furries in one place... Furries on their own is bad enough, enormous idiots on their own is bad enough... *shudder* Gaia gets them all on one website...

About gas, in the US it's more or less USD 3.00 a gallon, and the oil companies are making record profit. I think Canada has it easy in regard to evil corporations.

 

[brad.dude03]

Not really. If you do the conversion, i'm pretty sure the prices are still higher here. And the Chans will get hit just as hard as GaiaOnline will. They're both equally useless in the eyes of the corporations.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Hmm, you're actually right. At least we don't have it as bad as Europe does.

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Yeah, 4Chan is not only useless but a breeding ground for uselessness that almost rivals GaiaOnline. At least 4Chan uselessness is fun(ny).

 

[brad.dude03]

4Chan is quite funny. Tis true, but it still is completely useless in every sense except for personal entertainment, which means jackall to a megacoporation.

 

[Killer_Girl1]

Is what you guys talking about even on topic im just wondering cause it doesn't seem like it cause i don't understand what you are starting to say now .

 

[brad.dude03]

If you don't know what we're discussing then don't bother posting in the thread, as you don't understand what it's about.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

The internet is for porn.

So we must save the Internet. O_O

 

[iristle]

One person or a few cannot save millions of people from losing their internet...
Internet ownz, no pr0n!
Pr0n for nubs. Nuff.

 

[brad.dude03]

The internet is for porn.

So we must save the Internet. O_O

Indeed it is.

If anything, do it for the porn, children, do it for the porn.

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

If it wasn't for porn I would never have gotten the internet.

 

[lorothrigs]

People wll still find a way to do whatever they want online. I'm not worried. =/

Way to have the "It doesn't affect me, fuck that." attitude.

By the way, George Orwell was a genius. I was going to mention him but since someone else did, there isn't much of a point anymore.

 

[brad.dude03]

If it wasn't for porn I would never have gotten the internet.

I think i'm in the same boat as you

 

[Teh_Ephy]

I got the internet for e-mail, I'm still using it because of things in this order: porn, THW, 4Chan, online gaming.

 

[brad.dude03]

4chan= porn.

For the most part anyway.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

4Chan = win.
If the internet was under attack, they'd either stop it or be behind it.

 

[brad.dude03]

Or they'd flame the hell out of whoever tried to raise awareness about it, like typical 4chan users.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Flame the hell out of people for not being aware of it, not for raising awareness of it. I mean, God, it's 4Chan, freaking anonymous posting, and Anonymous: knows everything, can hack everything, could raid any site, has porn of it, etc. Even though it's an image board. Also, thank God for the board that shall not be discussed, it lets people get their daily jackass out. And it also utterly destroys minds, but that's part of the fun.