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[QUOTE]Originally posted by WizArtist II: [QB] What's also being overlooked is the ISP devilry. The perfect example is AOL. When you sign up for AOL, they provide you with internet access but they also provide you with THEIR content. IIRC in the beginning, AOL didn't even access the true internet, it was its own separate net community. When you search on AOL, they prioritize their functions, their partner companies products first ( as does most search engines today ) and other content last. What the absence of net neutrality will allow them to do is to throttle information you receive. Say you find something you want to access on a site that hasn't paid the premium to be high on that ISP's list. Instead of opening that site and getting 300KB/s download they can downgrade you to 5KB/s simply because that site isn't on its high end "Priority" list. Your options will be to find another source for the information (an APPROVED provider) or suffer the slow loading speeds. This is a form of economic censure AND blackmail. As I mentioned above, search engines have been discriminating their data for years and making a killing, now the ISP's want to do the very same thing. And, of course, this doesn't EVEN scratch the potential abuse by governments. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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