Author Topic: Net Neutrality  (Read 4667 times)

I've been watching the news and apparently John McCain has proposed a bill to allow internet service providers to effectively censor content on the web that is not in their commercial interest. They do this by simply blocking access to websites, or by reducing bandwidth to them. They can even charge extra if you go to them.

Net Neutrality is the concept that this should be illegal; that the internet is a free domain and that no one can censor it (except the Chinese, lol).

Incidentally, John McCain gets the largest donations from the telecommunications industry out of everyone in congress.

Is this essentially bribery? Do ISPs have the right to monopolize the internet?

Discuss.
« Last Edit: October 31, 2009, 01:44:38 PM by Inv3rted »

If one ISP would do something like that, people wold just change the ISP.
If all did, then...riot?



If one ISP would do something like that, people wold just change the ISP.
If all did, then...riot?

Time Warner monopolized Manhattan. My only other choice is DSL at the moment.


He's a corporate tool.

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The internet is free domain, ISPs shouldn't/can't help that.

Only one thing is certain, McCain must die.

The internet is free domain, ISPs shouldn't/can't help that.

They can't right now, but this bill is supposed to allow them to.

Similar thing happened in Europe if I remember correctly. Only in Europe it was that every website was in a package that you had to purchase.

Similar thing happened in Europe if I remember correctly. Only in Europe it was that every website was in a package that you had to purchase.
What?
I never heard such nonsense. Besides, there are millions of websites, how the hell they categorize them all?

What?
I never heard such nonsense. Besides, there are millions of websites, how the hell they categorize them all?
I remember getting a link to protest it from a site from Europe that I visit often.
I dunno lol