 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Beginning of the end of the Net. With at&t, one of the very biggest Telco and DSL providers filtering, and some of the biggest Cable operators forging/blocking, you've already got large chunks of the country where unfettered internet broadband simply won't be available.
This will grow. Filters will be expanded. Blocks will increase in scope. And one day, the internet as we knew it will be a distant memory, replaced instead as a commercial medium for advertising and mining of consumer wallets through various pay services.
"The fires of Isengard will spread; and the woods in Buckley will burn; and all that was once green and good in this world will be gone. There won't be a shire, Pippin."
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) |
