Quite scary news

[curiousboy]

...if so, there are hard times approaching the horizon for our board too... 4 years isn`t even soo far...

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

Let`s hope for the best!

hugs,

cb

[bimboy]

I don't believe it - her cleavage is way too deep : )
The competition in this market is so fierce, any "provider" comming up with such a scheme would loose ALL their customers in a week.
Even if the 250 world-wide largest providers were to come to such an unholy alliance, they'd ALL be out of business in six months.

They can't even get out of their own "flat rate" inventions, which can't be good for business : )

Probably a half-truth though - as MANY people are scared of the net.
- and not just parents or people over 60.
I could see a market for a Family Values internet provider.
- but also, how hackers and spammers would piss all over it : )

[anllover]

yes. we should not lose faith in the hackers of the world.
Bimboy I like the way you are thinking on this one.

[RQUEEN]

hah that is laughable they have been talking about it for ages... one clever chap eveen wanted to stream one internet for porn one porn free.

Hackers and tech savvy will always rip that to shreds and oh oh oh just how does the great american internet plan to become a seperate internet fromt he rest of the world because you know damn well great countries like Sweden will just SAY NO

I think the US has been taking lessons from China.... a great firewall anyone ? Hackers delight indeed!

[gninori]

yes, hackers delight, but the vast majority of people, literate only enough to use a computer in the simplest way, will be cut off from the global flow of data and news or plain bullshit, the way the internet is now

p.s. if each of the speakers had had that cleavage, i would have really been in trouble to follow the talk. so i preferred to read

[anllover]

well G those people dont deserve the good porn anyway. they will just have to go to the corner porn shop and get some "legal" (see Max H thread) uptight porn.

remember recently some company started some new phone that would only allow something or something..... (please rest of story) and the day it was out the hackers/crackers had a crack on the internet.

LOL hackers

[curiousboy]

I don't believe it - her cleavage is way too deep : )
The competition in this market is so fierce, any "provider" comming up with such a scheme would loose ALL their customers in a week.
Even if the 250 world-wide largest providers were to come to such an unholy alliance, they'd ALL be out of business in six months.

They can't even get out of their own "flat rate" inventions, which can't be good for business : )

Probably a half-truth though - as MANY people are scared of the net.
- and not just parents or people over 60.
I could see a market for a Family Values internet provider.
- but also, how hackers and spammers would piss all over it : )

Thanx m8, I am a bit more optimistic after I read this...

well G those people dont deserve the good porn anyway. they will just have to go to the corner porn shop and get some "legal" (see Max H thread) uptight porn.

I don`t really like the prospective that technical skills will determine the freedom of information...
Gninori`s fears aren`t so out of place, I think.
I hope, if bad times`re coming, you gonna help me ....

Hugs, bros

cb

[Tangerine]

Of course Curiousboy, we'll never surrender ! Nude boobs gurlz and pervz unite !

(^ ^) (hmm I luv this Delacroix painting ) Edited June 10, 2008 by Tangerine

[anllover]

i will leave none of my friends behind regardless of skills. hell I even befriended tang when he was just a noob.

[Tangerine]

That's right ! But I'm still a noobish mod
And you kicked my ass too but it's an honour to be heavy bashed by you like many others members muhaha, PostmongerAnll. A big throbbing heart is liying under you warlock armour indeed (^ ^)

[anllover]

In response to MD reply in the Max Thread and what I have been thinking about this topic for a few days.

We cannot just hope for hackers and activists to fix this, we need to act our selves. Do we all remember when the TV came out? Would that not have been cool to have our own channel and broadcast our own shows?? Well the governments all around the world put a stop to that. I have only heard of a few places where pirate TV has really been done much. This incorporation of the internet access is equal to the oil company's power they have. But the real difference and actually the real danger is the internet is how we can find the truth. No really! There are lots of lies on the net but it keeps our eyes open. You can find the truth out there if you only look. We do not have really much option on where to find out what is going on in the world other than TV, Newsprint and internet. TV is so highly corpratized almost everything has a spin, even many fun shows. Much of the print is very slanted and sensationalized to an extreme. The internet is the only place to find out what people are really thinking and doing. Once our access is limited the world population will have shifted into high gear to Doomsville.

thats all folks

[bimboy]

I admit: Loosing the Internet as we know it, is .. almost physically painful to put into so many words.
And yes, We The People must be vigilant and join in The Fight for it's survival - and we will. Promise!

But don't forget there's already massive censorship going on, the civil laws of the hosting nations are seeping* into the digital realm.
that's the real danger.

or is it

or is it really, as usual, Greed, Hate, Ignorance and the Seven Heinous 'isms ?
Most of all: Religion, a brain virus. Caught more easyly by poor people and children. Highly infectious, strongly hereditary. Causing the patient to abandon his own powers of reason and submit, like a child to a parent, to some supreme creator of everything (But not too big to care) or whomever He in His Infinite Wisdom has chosen to dunk in said Wisdom.
- after that, anything's possible - as history shows to abundance

The fact that Law & Order is moving in to cyberspace SHOULD be good news.
- the real danger is that our western democracy, in the form we've come to expect it: two or three easy questions to answer per adult per decade (same questions for everybody!), may not be adequate to cope with the legislative challenges in a world where even the natural laws are effortlessly broken by everyone...

Finally, in closing: Don't fear some hairbrain scam like these WhizKidTeenCoolGeekWariors hear-say-theory of a mass conspiracy among the owners of the actual electrical hardware.. ?
it's a stunt!

I'll leave you with these nuggets:
Read those damn two last good newspapers and insist that the police are your freinds.

The level of freedom on The Internet as observed in any jurisdiction can be judged by said jurisdictions level of freedom for homosexuals and pot