RayWPremium
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kudos:1 | Keep mum and see what happens Since the cable companies have their backbones and partnerships with others, I can see that they are hoping that this becomes the rule. Especially since there have been many posts on certain cable companies throttling certain types of data.
Ahhh...the commercialization of the net. Wonder what would have happened had the US government held on to the control instead of 'privatizing' it?
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| said by RayW:Ahhh...the commercialization of the net. Wonder what would have happened had the US government held on to the control instead of 'privatizing' it? We would still be using dial-up and the big internet players would be AOL and Prodigy. And the content providers would be libraries, universities, museums, and government. And the multimedia content available today would not exist.
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by fAcEtIOUs:said by RayW:Ahhh...the commercialization of the net. Wonder what would have happened had the US government held on to the control instead of 'privatizing' it? We would still be using dial-up and the big internet players would be AOL and Prodigy. And the content providers would be libraries, universities, museums, and government. And the multimedia content available today would not exist. Who knows. If it were not for the universities and government much of the net would not be there, and if they were still in full charge it would probably be more robust than now but less pervasive. However, part of the success of the net today is the getting away from the original concept of a nuclear hardened system and into one that is a money maker.
Oh well, we can always point fingers at "What May Have Been", but the reality is, today the net (in the US) is mainly a bunch of commercial concerns with commercial entities concentrating on more wealth and power for the owners/big wigs. No concept of enlightened self interest and taking care of the customer there.
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You would probably have had to fill out a three page form (in triplicate) in order to start a website. Want interactivity on your website (e.g. a forum)? No problem. Just fill out form WT-A-F3R-7, pay your $50 application fee and, once it's approved (probably a 4 week wait), you can add the feature. Of course, corporations would be able to do this with minimal fuss because their lobbyists would have structured the laws to allow them to have multiple requests rubber-stamped while individuals need to wade through bureaucracy. (All the better to keep potential web sites critical of the corporations from springing up.)
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by Jason Levine:You would probably have had to fill out a three page form (in triplicate) in order to start a website. Want interactivity on your website (e.g. a forum)? No problem. Just fill out form WT-A-F3R-7, pay your $50 application fee and, once it's approved (probably a 4 week wait), you can add the feature. Of course, corporations would be able to do this with minimal fuss because their lobbyists would have structured the laws to allow them to have multiple requests rubber-stamped while individuals need to wade through bureaucracy. (All the better to keep potential web sites critical of the corporations from springing up.) Could be coming, since the government has apparently given up much of the control. At least it looks like a few coporations have started takeing the first steps. No more robust system, just little corporate domains with different ideas of what should be priority.
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