http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

Insiders have been quietly leaking information in regards of future contracts that effectively will spell the end of the Internet as we know it. Namely what will happen is a multi-tiered system which will in effect allow you to see mainstream sites for a lower fee - and access to smaller distant and private sites will have an additional charge. This deliberate lopsiding of the internet will cause a literal shutdown of alternative media as far as having an equal voice.

2012 is also the year of the alien takeover according to the X-Files

Man that's gonna be an awesome year!

Lmao. well it's only 08 Bush can destroy us all before we even have a chance to browse another website. Anythings possible.

Sounds like a good conspiracy theory.

I have actually read the government is trying to find a way to tax internet usage, especially by taxing every email that is sent (somewhat like a electronic postage stamp)

ugh, I hate greed. Can't they keep their hands off the internet? just let us have ONE thing thats free....(although its not entirely free, you still need to pay for an ISP)

from the OP link......



Oh dear....oh dear....is the internet in it's present form too good to be true????

Will the World Wide Web become the World Wide Rip Off ?? (censorship?)

And there's THAT year again.....the real possibility that the internet can be totally spoilt is DEPRESSING...

the "internet' isnt owned by a perticular government or any group for that matter. But if someone does this, i would become a terrorist aimed at the people that did it.

You guys really underestimate the millions of people who use the internet.

They would anti-goverment militas organized within minutes on facebook..

Don't tell me the Mayans invented the internet as well.

It's all true, the ETs have been trying to warn us...


2012 Internet Doomsday

lollin @ the firefox crop circle

yes, yes once upon a time the radio airwaves were something like the net in where many people were able to freely use it to communicate but the FCC was born...net neutrality is the most under recognized cause of the new millennium for all that is at stake but so few people are aware of the consequences of potential government regulation towards it. no longer will people to be able to freely release content but it will all be sponsored by the government and other media entities.

Heh, I will laugh at this if it happens; the many hackers out there that will circumvent such a system and then tell the world; and the internet will be eventually free once again!

Damn those MAYANS! They ruin EVERYTHING! First genital mutilation, then 2012, now the INTERNET! DANG-IT!

Virgin Media (a top UK internet service provider) Neil Berkett CEO of Virgin media, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of b******s” and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced to use whatever Virgin wants to push through their network.

In April 2008 Acting CEO Neil Berkett sparked controversy when he told "Television", a magazine published by the Royal Television Society, “this net neutrality thing is a load of b******s.” According to the journalist, he claimed that any video content provider that refused to pay Virgin Media a premium for faster access would have to get stuck in “bus lanes,” having their content delivered to end users at much slower speeds than that of paying content providers

http://www.youtube.com/v/AA5ZR_jxdXU

http://stopvirgin.movielol.org/

Ya, Virgin won't be well received by their peers or customers if they're going to start down throttling bandwidth for premium content like video.

Net Neutrality has some heavy hitters behind it, heavy hitters who don't like to lose and generally DON'T lose.

In support of Net Neutrality.. oh you know, little companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo!, YouTube...

Thank’s for sharing this nice link.

I don't know much about computers but if this happens couldn't we like a second internet or use service providers that are not based in places that have these regulations? Or something?

well, in OZ, we get charged to the amount of accessing all websites right now if this even happens anyway.

I guess these people haven't thought of being their own ISP

What do you mean? Do you mean download quotas? It's not exactly the same thing.

I've never heard of any I.S.P in Aus charging per website access...




Sure you can be your own ISP. If you're rich enough to have your own expensive infrastructure. Or you can buy from the major suppliers in bulk...

They have been talking about this for the last 13 years maybe longer. I say 13 because I remember people talking about it when I was in Jr High when AOL 3.0 came out.

Im saying our normal internet usage is high enough to have all the websites in the world avaliable to us if this is true.

Honestly, I think this is BS and if you look at the uploader of this footage, I think you can get the idea that it is not true.

If the government really does impose this "tax" or even try to ban p2p service, I would seriously consider joining a terrorist organization to fight against them.
VIVA LA RESISTANCE !!!

Your phone has just bin tapped lol

Lol this law won't be passed lol Militias will be formed protests will happen...Anonymous won't stand by it either they will DDoS websites clog phone lines and fax machines...Like the days when Project Chanology didn't suck...

Yeah. I totally don't see it happening. Haha. Because they can't control all the small-town ISPs that easily. Like Windstream, which is a piece of... Let's just say they are no better than their cellphone service, offered under the guise of Alltel.

thats... weird...

personally, i think this is bs, but hey...i could be wrong, and i sure hope im not

Its not the end of Internet....Its the end of DSL/CABLE internet...The beginning of 1 Terabytes Fiber Optics is under construction in japan...

You people will hear lot about FIBER OPTICS by 2011...

Who's to say that they're not going to do with the Internet what they did with cable television though? Cable television, in its infancy was NO COMMERCIALS. That's one of the biggest things that was most appealing about it. It wasn't long though before commercials were there and soon after everywhere, to the tune of seeing more commercials than the television you were paying for to not see commercials! It was only a matter of time before the government(s) saw an opportunity to make money off of the Internet too. It happens whenever they believe they're not getting their cut. We're doomed. Leopards don't change their spots. It's more than likely going to happen. Our meneal premiums we pay monthly to have Internet isn't enough and they want more. They'll get it.