If the cable and phone companies that transmit Internet data are allowed to charge higher rates to some producers for faster service the result will be “a ten pin strike against political freedom,” a prominent legal authority warns.
That’s because the change will enable the wealthy to “quickly take over the high speed transmissions (for their trash commercial content) just as they completely monopolize radio and TV, and just as their incredibly greedy profit-seeking has had a very deleterious effect on print journalism,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
Velvel’s plea for “internet neutrality” comes in his new book “An Enemy of The People,” subtitled “The Unending Battle Against Conventional Wisdom(Doukathsan).” Essentially, he writes, the proposed change is an “attempt by the wealthy to make the internet into yet another repository of their power…”
Under the new scheme sought by transmission firms, Velvel writes, “large companies would pay more, no doubt a lot more, in order to have their messages, videos, audios, and any other content transmitted rapidly. The rest of us peasants, who could not afford to have our content move fast, would pay less and have it move more slowly.”
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“One can be sure that the average guy with something he wants to say will be relegated to lower speed transmissions,” Velvel writes. “Blogdom, and the use of the internet by average people for political purposes, will likely be as good as dead.”
According to Save The Internet.com(STI), “The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies —including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner—want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.”
“What we have here,” Velvel explained, “is a bunch of unregenerate capitalists, who think that nothing else is important except trying to make as much as they can conceivably get away with. As with the oil companies and the investments banks, huge profit margins and scores of millions annually for their chairmen and CEOs isn’t enough for them. They want more. Always more. Nothing else matters to them. The pipes (transmission) companies are no different.”
Velvel pointed out, “The average guy can’t be published in a newspaper, and cannot afford the money to pay to be on radio or television. His voice is limited. The great benefit of the internet, the reason it bade fair to be the new version of the poor man’s printing press (which is what picketing and marching were once called), is that it gave everyone a chance to have his or her say in a way that was immediately available to anyone who found it or knew of it and wanted to read it.”
“That is why tens of millions of blogs sprang up,” Velvel continued, “with (at least) many thousands of them being on political subjects, and with blogdom sometimes having major political impacts.”
Others besides Velvel have also commented on efforts to destroy net neutrality. As a consequence of a 2005 decision by the Bush Federal Communications Commission, Internet Neutrality, “the foundation of the free and open internet—was put in jeopardy,” STI says. “Now cable and phone company lobbyists are pushing to block legislation that would reinstate Net Neutrality.”
“Without Net Neutrality, startups and entrepreneurs will be muscled out of the marketplace by big corporations that pay for a top spot on the Web,” STI says.
“If Congress turns the Internet over to the telephone and cable giants, everyone who uses the Internet will be affected,” STI continues. “Connecting to your office could take longer if you don’t purchase your carrier’s preferred applications. Sending family photos and videos could slow to a crawl. Web pages you always use for online banking, access to health care information, planning a trip, or communicating with friends and family could fall victim to pay-for-speed schemes.”
STI warned the consequences of abandoning Internet Neutrality would be “devastating.” “Innovation would be stifled, competition limited, and access to information restricted. Choice and the free market would be sacrificed to the interests of a few corporate executives.”
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January 26th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
JUST ANOTHER FUTILE ATTEMPT @ MORE CONTROL + RICH & POOR CLASS WAR !!!
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January 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Once internet access is in low supply it will create a high demand for internet access. When a service is in high demand the free market will have every smart business investor seizing this opportunity. Internet service will only get faster and faster and cheaper and cheaper.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
all good things must come to an end…no one can stop the new world order…the reptilian lords will soon control everything hahahaha.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
No matter what content is thrown at you on no matter what Web you’re using, you’ll still find what you’re looking for with diligence. Just because you see more commercials doesn’t mean you’ll never get to see what you logged on to see… it just means it’s going to take a longer time to wade through the bulls--- first. The Web is driven by our interest. The information we’ve gotten so far is not BECAUSE our Internet is SO CHEAP but -IN SPITE- of all the ads there currently are. Bloggers will not be affected by premium Internet; blogs are still looked at and it’s still free to set one up. Nobody trusts mainstream news, they will always be looking to what we currently call Bloggers. High speed blog hosting will be available just like everything else, maybe just with more ads.
I’m a web hosting tech support rep and I don’t see any way premium Internet will change anything… it will be just like AOL used to be. They had a community set up for their special content, but they still provided a Web browser for non-AOL sites. Similarly, premium Internet will bring premium-speed Web portals that lead to premium-speed sites and services, but you can still search for and find things on non-premium Internet connections. So I say FU to anyone who tries to scare people into thinking their voices will cease to be heard because of big corporate expansion.
Goodam Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Let me tell you a little about your AOL, Aol was one of the first to downsize the bandwidth back in the early 90s, AOL is hardly a good reference.
Yes I am an IT consultant too, and a computer programmer, don’t sit there and try to BS the rest of us that everything is ok, it’s not, they want a complete control over the internet for various reasons.
They want to monopolize the internet, they want to make more and more profits as if they are not making enough, it’s never enough for them.
And the major reason is about silencing us, the average guy has no voice and this article is spot on.
Now your advice go and shove it somewhere where the sun doesn’t shine
You guys still believe that people are idiots, are they paying to come here and BS us?
Here’s a message to these sharks, go and tell them to not even think on touching the internet otherwise they will have war on their hands.
I mean people will no longer put up with your crap anymore
now get lost
January 27th, 2009 at 12:39 am
There’s more and more evidence that the globalists are worried, they are hiring idiots to post loads of rubbish, with their propaganda, that don’t worry everything is a rumour, everything is wonderful.
We will not be silenced, we will not your crap anymore, we are the people, without us no corporation will ever exist.
Remember people we have the power, if we really want to dictate to any bastard out there.
January 27th, 2009 at 2:16 am
Someone has to take legal action to stop this.
Also, join up with a country like China or Russia or India or Brazil to fund another internet.
Let them have their rich boy’s propaganda tripe internet.
We can build another. If people can’t use the internet, they’ll just start talking to each other again. Look at Iceland and how quickly they got rid of the elite simply because they talk in a small country.
Goodam Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 5:55 am
You are absolutely right, there’s nothing that can beat them than pulling away from their crapy system, their currency, everything they control, we can move away from it and build our own.
It can be done, lots of people are IT minded, some people who have money can invest in the infrastructure, we can all make donations, and if we speak world wide, can you imagine, the potential we have?
Also another good news, I don’t know how many of you are aware but the head of the Linux OS, Ubuntu, is a billionaire who is against big corporations and against globalisation, if we can get in touch with him and many others I am sure we can pull it off.
But we must do this on every level and area of our lives not just the Internet, for example support our farmers, help them to free themselves from the grip of this Elite, the small businesses, small local shops.
Many people would welcome this, as they can at least survive, without being squeezed by the giant corporations.
What do you guys think?
Let’s do it, enough of talking, join the other on david icke’s forum we are organising meetings, even though you are over in the states it doesn’t matter.
We need our own globalisation, without any strings attached, free globalisation if I may say, we need eatch other to fight these snakes.
Come on let’s do it.
January 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Do any of you have an clue as to why they are planning on setting up this special internet lane? One simple reason. HDITV. Which in simple words is very high quality television delivered over the internet. That is the only reason they intend to set this up. It will be in addition to all other forms of internet traffic differing only in the fact they are making a special effort to make sure you can watch TV over the internet without dealing with issues we now have to deal with sometimes when the servers are overloaded and their is a break in the show.
We have plenty of other issues to deal with without worrying about what will amount to yet another fearmongering.
mythicshadow Reply:
January 27th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Oh goody, more garbage f---ing TEE VEE. Can’t wait for that sewer to start flowing like the Colorado. Who the f--- wants yet more of their UNreality s---shows and watching Brittany’s c--- or Paris rightupto the Hilt in. f--- em all.
January 27th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
I have a good job being paid to come to these boards and post propaganda. So please don’t believe anything I say. It’s all being sponsored by the NWO. I get paychecks signed “NWO” and my bonuses are paid in credits that are applied to my forehead chip, which I will be using very soon. I hope you have enough forehead credits when the s--- hits the fan. Better start posting propaganda like me. Oh, wait, you are.