The End of the Internet
Yesterday, I came across a story on Digg.com. When I read it, the story had a few hundred diggs (a digg is a positive vote, which signifies how popular a story is).The story now has over 10,000 diggs.
Why such urgency?
Because the Internet itself is on the verge of changing dramatically. In a bad way.
2012: The Year The Internet Ends
From the article:
Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.Can you imagine? It goes on to explain a very grim outlook that will naturally and inevitably emerge:
Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.And now today, Time Warner announces a load of garbage, covered on GigaOm and TechCrunch.
[Time Warner Cable] has set up a pricing plan that ranges from $29.95 a month for something I’d call “barely broadband” at 768 kilobits per second with a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap. Overage fees will be $1 per gigabyte, and customers will be able to monitor their bandwidth consumption via the company’s web site.This is just terrible. I agree with Michael Arrington--I usually dislike government intervention, but monopolies are the exception. This CANNOT go down.
Another reason I'm voting for Obama. Leave a comment
7 Comments:
Obviously you're free to vote for who you want, but why does this make you more likely to vote Obama? What is his policy on this topic as it compares to McCain's policy?
The only reason I watched the video was because of the girl with the cleavage. That was a cheap move on their part, but what can I say? It worked.
Similarly, I am voting for Obama because he's sexier than McCain.
P.B. thanks for the comment. To answer your question, Obama is staunchly FOR Net Neutrality, while McCain leans more towards "letting the market decide."
Like I said in my post--normally I think it's best when markets decide for themselves, but in the case of monopolies, government intervention is best, in my opinion.
To me, McCain appears to be completely out of the loop.
Here's a good quote. :-)
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Chuck Fish, an attorney for the McCain campaign and former Time Warner executive, reassured [ars technica] that McCain 'does know how to use e-mail... and a few other modern conveniences.'
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Quote from:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080527-mccain-and-obama-tech-policy-at-cfp.html
For more information on Obama vs McCain regarding technology issues, see:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/29/the-techcrunch-tech-president-endorsements-barack-obama-and-john-mccain/
These stories leave me with a combination of anger and dread. Its essentially trying to drag life back to the 'dark ages' of 10 years ago. Sadly alot of people wouldn't even notice.
Hopefully none of this will ever truly come to pass. I can see it eventually coming to government interaction, but to an extent the market will also decide.
In the end you can't but the genie back in the bottle, no matter how much the telecoms want to. People have had an uncapped pipe for long enough now that going back to the days AOL minute plans won't fly. Someone will offer unlimited service and break down the plan. In an era where wireless networks are becoming more and more unlimited and slowly cheaper, I remain hopeful that we can't move back in the wired world.
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...And you think Obama will prevent this? You have been drinking the Kool-Aid, by the drum.
Neither of the people running have the technical understanding to handle the internet.
Neither.
However, the basic premise of allowing the buyer to dictate what they will and won't pay for, thus guiding what (those businesses who want the buyer's money) choose to offer is NOT consistent with Obama.
His philosophy is for government to tell business what it is to (and can) offer for sale. Not good. Not good at all.
Vote as you wish, but take great care in what you wish fo.
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