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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] This is a blog entry written by a friend about Congress's killing the Net Neutrality act: [i]Thanks to the greedy, self-important pricks in Washington, <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5063072.stm">it failed</a>....again. I watched some of the debate on C-SPAN last night...utterly disgusting. No matter what arguments were made, all you heard was MONEY, MONEY, MONEY from these politicians. At one point, some Republican hack was whining about VoIP being free of the Universal Service Charge crap we already see on our phone bills. Aww, too bad, a-hole, you have to do with less money? A two-tier internet IS coming, specifically designed to limit access to certain types of information and sites containing that information. It's the American version of Chinese content control, but packaged differently enough so that our dopey-ass public won't know what's happening...that is, until they try to access their favorite alternative media news site or other "premium" bookmark and find they have to pay more to view it. A lot of these elitist politicians HATE the fact that we are <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19025556.200">free to view</a> information from diverse sources and discuss events online, that bloggers can freely criticize without editorial filters and catch their dirty little secrets...they want to rein it in any way they can. And they are. The plug is about to be pulled on the free-for-all nature of the internet, all because we dare to explore ideas beyond what the evening news or corporate newspaper feed us. The serfs have had it too good for far too long, and the lords want their power back.[/i] Now, his post was the first I'd ever HEARD of "net neutrality" ANYthing....& then to top it off, I found this: <a href="http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=12484119">Court backs government broadband wiretap access</a> [i]WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the government's authority to force high-speed Internet service providers to give law enforcement authorities access for surveillance purposes.[/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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