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Parker2112
03-15-2011, 06:43 PM
austin, texas — sen. al franken (http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/alfranken) claimed monday that big corporations are "hoping to destroy" the internet and issued a call to arms to several hundred tech-savvy south by southwest attendees to preserve net neutrality.
"i came here to warn you, the party may be over," franken said. "they're coming after the internet hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important [medium] for independent artists and entrepreneurs: Its openness and freedom.”


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RandomGuy
03-16-2011, 10:56 AM
http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168247
lazerelmo
03-16-2011, 11:07 AM
Yes Al, more bandwidth cost more money. Its not an attack on freedom just the way the internet has always worked.
greyforest
03-16-2011, 07:23 PM
don't worry. the internet is world-wide. the usa doesn't have a monopoly on it, so it can't completely fuck it up.
jacobdrj
03-17-2011, 11:02 AM
don't worry. the internet is world-wide. the usa doesn't have a monopoly on it, so it can't completely fuck it up.

In some ways, it kinda does... Lots of the backbone and stuff and DNS stuff is here. With some work, and time, other countries could find a way to delineate the US's functions with respect to the internet if the US 'fuck it up', but it would lead to a fractured system...
boutons_deux
03-17-2011, 12:54 PM
"big corporations are "hoping to destroy" the internet"

bullshit. The corps are hoping to "monetize" the Internet, just like they want to monetize no-profit public water supplies into for-profit private local monopolies.
hater
03-17-2011, 12:56 PM
"big corporations are "hoping to destroy" the internet"

bullshit. The corps are hoping to "monetize" the Internet, just like they want to monetize no-profit public water supplies into for-profit private local monopolies.

thus, destroying the internet as we know it now.

Right now Internet is pretty open and free. For 6 bucks a month I have a website that can reach tons of ppl and even generate some revenue.

IMO new forms of technology-communications will one up these big corps just like what happened with newspaper, radio, tv and internet.
LnGrrrR
03-17-2011, 01:47 PM
Yes Al, more bandwidth cost more money. Its not an attack on freedom just the way the internet has always worked.

That's not really what net neutrality is about.
mouse
03-17-2011, 01:58 PM
The revenge of Dusty Garza.
lazerelmo
03-17-2011, 04:21 PM
That's not really what net neutrality is about.


Internet content has always been fairly "open and free" but internet access has never been free. Its like trying to say a newspaper, by charging more for home delivery, is "coming after" my freedom to read the news.