To me we’re worse off; now their actions are out of the mainstream view and we’re subject to investigation and monitoring devoid of any real pro-active control. We’re now at the complete mercy of the ISPs.
I don’t want to be filtered or have my communications monitored and subjected to the scrutiny of a private company (ISP). This doesn’t happen elsewhere – such as phones and snail mail – so why is the Internet regarded as any different?
Why in today’s society are the views and desires of the everyday consumer completely ignored when it comes to the net/web?
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Well. Who’s saying the mail or phone lines are not? (*scary fingers*)
Besides the logistics of snooping are getting so much easier with bits, and being a true disruptive technology, there are players that have STRONG interests in controlling it, limiting the potential of the Interwebs.
I am really surprised that someone hasnt taken out the RIAA yet!
jess
http://www.privacy.es.tc
Looks like it’s back to sticks and stones for us humans. This just isn’t going to work.
I think it’s high time people start moving to using filesharing tools with integrated identity protection. They can’t punish what they can’t trace…
http://www.i2p2.de/
@McLooze: but why is it so different? Why aren’t our rights actioned in the same manner that they are for other mediums?
Sadly this is already going on, Comcast has been filtering for awhile the slowdown on net speed, and selling higher speed is the end for all of us, when big companies can buy higher speed and the little guy can’t, his web site no matter how cool, or what he has, will never be equal. The goverment now works for big business, they just buy a senator and change the laws, rather than people speak out about At & T, listening to the net, everyone let it ride, I have been pissed since they went in that little room in San Francisco, and started listening, and you know what look what the buying public did, at and crappy t, is the largest company every, and is even billing for next months phone bill, and not one person complained….very sad to see people sued, for something eveyone else missed, there selling music over 30 years old, how bout something new, we had 2-3 or 4 different bands release music each week, now its 1 a year, what is going on, sellin old stuff, we all bought over 3 platforms, very sad, stand up and complain!!
America is not the world. Stop lumping all human’s in with your poor, retarded nationalist country.
Err Shaze, I’m British. This has nothing to do with America.
There is only one way to break the illegal stranglehold of the “providers”. Everyone gets a wifi router and connects to the mesh, bypassing the proposed bottlenecks of the entire for profit scheme. Fact is, it actually belongs to us anyway …… take a look into the “The $200 Billion Rip-Off” for starters.
Down side …… wild, wild, west on the ‘net folks. Pretty much an anything goes free-for-all since there would be no filter (except for any filters put in place on purpose at the node level).
“This doesn’t happen elsewhere – such as phones and snail mail – so why is Internet regarded as any different?”
You have to be kidding me …… as far as tracking goes, there is never (nor has there ever been) no way to track data (whether verbal, snail or otherwise). If there was, data requested from point A would never reach point B. The only difference is in how fast and how reliably the data gets there. The root of the problem is that someone thinks that they own it (the PROCESS of getting data from point A to point B) as “property”. Worse is that what amounts to a sub-contractor claiming that they somehow “own” any of the infrastructure at all is actually beyond insane …… especially when they defaulted on the contracts as well.
You have to realize that it’s not exactly in the ISP’s interest to limit people’s connectivity and download speed. It’s one thing for the RIAA to claim that they will start working with ISPs to cut down on illegal downloads, but we’re still a long way away from ISPs actually cutting people’s internet.
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