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Net Neutrality
Inv3rted:
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.
D3ATH:
If one ISP would do something like that, people wold just change the ISP.
If all did, then...riot?
Wynd_Fox:
I like Net Neutrality.
NickTheSushi:
--- Quote from: Wynd_Fox on October 31, 2009, 01:30:56 PM ---I like Net Neutrality.
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cigarette.
Inv3rted:
--- Quote from: D3ATH on October 31, 2009, 01:30:11 PM ---If one ISP would do something like that, people wold just change the ISP.
If all did, then...riot?
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Time Warner monopolized Manhattan. My only other choice is DSL at the moment.