Get your damn hands off my Internet!
I’m talking to you government, entertainment industry, and monopoly service providers. What happened to my really cool and interesting Internet. Well I tell you one thing that unless something is done it will be gone forever. Big business and the government (trust me net neutrality laws will just make it worst) are conspiring to make it nothing more than a revenue stream. It will be back to the bulletin board systems and dark nets for those of us that don’t want to be spied upon or sued. Let me get one thing straight this has nothing to do with illegal activity on the net. Laws in many countries are begin passed that have nothing to do with copyright infringement, laws that I swear it seams are being put in place just to make the internet not even worth the bother. Hey lets turn off all those really convenient hot spots A law in the UK called the Digital Economy Bill will do just that. We all know how evil it is to see naked people good thing the smart people from down under have it all figured out tiny tits may turn us all in to sex fiends. Well this is good news US government rescinds leave internet alone policy, funny like it ever did. How great is it that lobbyist from around the world have convenience governments that it’s just fine to have a 3 strikes rule. Oh you know do something wrong 3 times and you’re cut off for good. Forget that MAC addresses can be spoofed or there is no such thing as a false positive. Why even bother with the pesky Constitution or Bill of Rights (here in the US) , those don’t really count any more now do they.
It’s sad to me to see something that has such great potential being picked downed to irrelevance. At one point it really looked like the Internet was going to level the playing field but that’s precisely why governments and big business are doing what they are doing. They won’t stop till the Internet is fully within their control.
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Lion on
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hear, hear!
Nice to see someone is awake? Will there be enough of us? Will we actually do something about it?
I find the saddest part about it that although all of us realize its happening there is not much we can do. If there is I would be glad to listen and do my part.
exactly how i feel. the internet 10 years ago was super awesome but over time all the good stuff slowly disappeared and its become full of junk, stupid memes, malware, crackers, media cartels trying to sue people for file sharing [hello the internet was to share information guys], etc.
A dialup BBS can fly under the radar. No movies to download, but freedom is better than entertainment. The public have become like zombies on this issue. Nothing can wake them from the dead.
It all started when we let the government put seat belts in our cars.
Whatever the reason for the seat belts, it showed that the public was
willing to “go along” with any somewhat plausible idea that the boys
in DC said was good for us. /sarcasm/ /or not/
Think what TV could have been? Mr. Rogers or Muppets on steroids!
Hell, Bill Nye himself could have prevented our huge science gap.
Educated consumers? Informed electorate? A BS proof society?
Ok, so we can not save the TV, but if the admins, or at least a huge bunch
of them got together (they could use the interwebs) and could decide
when enough is enough and agree when to pull the plug………
Just kidding friends, go back to watching your reality on TV.
Why not create another free Internet?
The Internet is just a network with some protocols… Create some open source communication protocols and a new network will emerge, something like a DC hub…
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