the end of the net - Internet2 - a threat to freedom?

[thommo]

saw this elsewhere make of it what you like --


Internet V2.0 due in 2012; (trialled already in Texas USA) will use the same model as SKY does. Subscription based content. You will pay a monthly fee & receive the new faster, more efficient WEBv2. However this new web will be owned by BIG Media companies & they?ll sell ?shop fronts? to big players such as EB@y & Am@zon & the only things you will see online as a subscriber; will be those ?shops? that the owners of Web2 have allowed. The small sites ? just like this one will fall by the wayside ? why?

Because to access the rest of the internet you?ll need to pay an additional fee to do so (and people won?t) ? then you will find it slow & unreliable & one day it won?t work at all, because WebV1 won?t be maintained & will gradually die off. Interesting that the US congress has already signed away content control to the ISP?s over there ? think about that..

This means the only News & information that will be available to NET ?users? will be what the controlling companies want the masses to see. Sites like this & sites with news reports that don?t make mainstream news; simply won?t exist. Questions won?t be asked any more - as conflicting information will never see the light of day. By the way they also propose eventual access to this new hypernet will be by thumbscan device ? think about that too for a while.


Kromze Technology Blast: 2012: The Year The Internet Ends

[krazylegz]

but virgin media is future proof...............or so they say .


will that not only affect ADSL connections like sky?

[aftermath]

I am still waiting for my 4mb upgrade to 10 mb, its been on going most of this year, and still nowhere near being finished.

So VM will be about 10 years behind 2012 ,

[krazylegz]

you what???? force the config and get 20meg steve m8 lmao.