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spiroth10 Member Level: 13     Posts: 4/27 EXP: 10259 For next: 8 Since: 08-31-07 Since last post: 14.4 years Last activity: 14.4 years 
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| Up until recently, I hadn't even noticed net neutrality went through. It was only when I tried to post a link in a myspace bulletin (showing a cartoon advising against stupid retarded chain letters) that I even became aware that it was in use.
Hell, now I actually have a clear handle on what it is, back when people were debating on it, I only heard it was "good" or "bad" and no description thereof. sure it's good for corporations -- the big ones, and really, all it does is support monopolies. Myspace, for example, has banned anyone who uses a competing service, WHICH IS ELIMINATING COMPETITION. They don't even allow outside links. This may not seem like much now, but the free internet we all know and love is about to come to an end. It's slowly turning into a laissez fair economics styled dictatorship. Now, I want to say that there is absolutely no chance that people like us, who are against it, can do anything at all. Protesting is worthless, quite honestly. The majority of the world is unaware, uneducated, and just doesn't give a crap, so even if people like me said something, we would go ignored -- business only care for the majority, if they lose a small minority of people, screw those people, they will still get richer. I'm not gonna post a big rant like I did on board II (I was outraged when I posted that one) but I'd like to give you a little food for thought on this subject before I end this post. If companies are now allowed to exclude competition online, what about our ISPs? are they safe? I say no. I say, lets say, Newscorp (Fox, myspace) could pay my provider a large (billions) amount of dollars so I could only access "their version" of the internet. Where we couldn't visit independent sites, but only sites from them and their approved affiliates. and seeing how, in the material world, there will be alternate providers (albeit to different 'internets') there will be no monopoly, so it will stay 100% legal. And these providers could also legally get paid by companies like Microsoft to force you to use a certain OS to get any access at all. it fits the law, and it could happen at any time now I say. on our end, the end of the intelligent user who knows of his alternatives, right now there is very little difference to the world wide web, but soon, it won't be that way any more. They've opened up a legal way to start a monopoly online, and there is NOTHING stopping the beast of greed now. |
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