I sure hope so, however, America runs a majority of the world's servers.

cry:

September 11th, 2001.

this concept started as what blase mentioned but its now basically moved to internet providers giving bias to websites to connect to them via a fast connect. Machette gave a good analogy where cable companies choose what channels you have in a package. you cant just watch anything you want unless you pay more for it.

Lets say that suckbay throws a million bucks to comcast. You can now get to suckbay quickly and browse at your normal net speed.

however ebay didnt pay a million bucks. so if you are trying to access that site to sell something it would travel at 56k speeds.

also from that wiki document
Net neutrality has been instantiated into law in many countries, including the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Japan.

so our UK breathren already are under this type of law. I don't see them flipping shit.

Net neutrality is a good thing

http://www.itsournet.org/

i sent an email to both my senators and my congresswoman about this and i got a reply from one senator. its prolly a script, but i still think its cool that someone emailed me...

----- Original Message -----
From: <senator@feinstein.senate.gov>
To: <me@internet.net>
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:01 AM
Subject: U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message





June 23, 2006


Mr. Robert Singrin
XXX Any Street
Anaheim, California 99999

Dear Mr. Singrin:

Thank you for writing to me about open access to the
Internet and network neutrality. I appreciate hearing from you.

I agree with the general principles of network neutrality
that owners of the networks that provide access to the Internet
should not control how consumers lawfully use that network and
should not be able to discriminate against content provider access
to that network.

As Congress debates changes to our telecommunications
laws this year, many different proposals have been offered
regarding network neutrality. The question arises whether or not
action is needed to ensure unfettered access to the Internet. I
believe any workable solution must balance the needs of the
network, service and information providers. Please know that
when legislation regarding network neutrality comes before the
Senate I will be sure to keep your specific views in mind.

Again, thank you for writing. If you should have any
comments or questions, I hope you will feel free to contact my
Washington, DC staff at (202) 224-3841.





Sincerely yours,

Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

http://feinstein.senate.gov

Further information about my position on issues of concern to California and the Nation are available at my website
http://feinstein.senate.gov. You can also receive electronic e-mail updates by subscribing to my e-mail list at
http://feinstein.senate.gov/issue.html.


dance:

Gurantee that within 5-10 years the internet will be regulated and controlled by either corporations or the government.

i gurantee you that that'll majorly suck ass

I gurantee you seeing this happen will make many people kill themselves.

What does this mean for pron? cry: cry: cry:

heh wow. if this happens, it will mark the beginning of a series of unfortunate events. no lemony snicket jokes plzkthx.

Ive signed up 92bengals.com as part of the the coalition to save the internet


http://www.savetheinternet.com/

I contacted my senator (Dick Durbin). Lets see what he has to say about this issue.

hhahahah dick

[quote="Short Hand":f425b]It is all money in these greedy fuckers pockets. [/quote:f425b]
greedy fuckers = conservatives and their constituents