ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends'

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jarasan — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:24:53 GMT

Reminds me of a South Park episode.

Comment #11

pumpi76 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:36:07 GMT

the internet is not free...we got to pay to get internet...

Comment #10

Coin Toss — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:19:04 GMT

I'd hate to see the "bad apples" - scammers, ID thieves, hackers, etc...ruin it for everyone else. That's the first thing I thought of when I saw the article. <br

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justxploring — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:41:30 GMT

I love it! The Lottery Post Underground. Members living in subway tunnels, using morse code to send predictions. Running past enemy lines to place bets.

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Todd — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:50:05 GMT

"They'll have to rip this site from my cold, dead hands!"<br

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time*treat — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:20:56 GMT

If the net becomes just an extension of the MSM, may as well pull the plug.

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justxploring — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:13:47 GMT

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html

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spy153 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:11:16 GMT

pumpi, it doesn't mean the end of the world. We functioned just fine without the internet for thousands of years. I think we can do it some more.

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pumpi76 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:22:41 GMT

so the end of the world wasn't in december 31st of 1999 with the advent of the 2000 computer crash but instead it was 12 years later...

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pumpi76 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:21:03 GMT

thanks good information to know....

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pumpi76 — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:20:35 GMT

does that mean we will not be able to use email and visit LP? and if this is so how come google, yahoo and MSN shares are not plomitting or we don't hear anything from this search engines about the subject at hand..

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Coin Toss — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:17:27 GMT

I've read similar stuff in the past year or so, but more like a very tightly controlled internet, kind of like the Red Chinese have right now. People in Red China can get on the net, but they aren't going to see anything that doesn't have government approval.

Original Blog Entry: ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends'

Coin Toss — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:15:37 GMT

ISP's confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends'

Update:Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officiallyconfirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internetaccess to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a smallstandard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for everyother site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all theirexposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen asthe end of the Internet.

Dylan Pattyn, who is currentlywriting an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has officialconfirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing amarketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and statesthat TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in thesubscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirmwhether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actuallyhappen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, moreconfirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on theissue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.

What can we do?

Thereason why we're releasing this information is because we believe wecan stop it. More awareness means more mainstream media shedding lighton it, more political interest and more pressure on the ISP's to keepthe Internet an open free space. We started this social network as aplatform for Internet activism where we can join forces, share ideasand organize any form of protest that may have an impact. If we want tomake a difference in this, we have to join together and stand united asone powerful voice against it.

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2

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