http://www.savetheinternet.com/=faq
"Net Neutrality ensures that all users can access the content or run the applications and devices of their choice. With Net Neutrality, the network's only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires from discriminating against content based on its source or ownership."
"Who wants to get rid of Net Neutrality?
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.
They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking their competitors.
These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services — or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls — and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road. "
Sure this could all be about money.
But could there be another reason?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinarity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinary_Studies
With a lack of indepndant web sites, Big Brother could spin the news any way they want, just like on TV.
Besides that, without all the "crackpot" web sites we lose access to all the pieces to the big paranormal puzzle.
If you control the information, the media and censor the internet, you will control the minds of people.
End of the Internet as we know it?
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VermisVictus
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This is a serious issue and I am sure there is big money changing hands in Washington over this. However, we have a little more time on this as the biggest player had to agree to neutrality as part of its newest merger deal.
Besides Big Brother already exists, and the networks already control the public opinion. Instead of us being presented any balanced view of the events in Iraq, we are given the horrors of 50 mi. Baghdad while anything else goes mostly unheard. We get the special updates on a the idiocy in our court system over Anna Nicole Smith, but the media ignores the problems of illegal immigration (including the alarming number of crimes committed by them). Not to mention that we get Britney Spears' running around with no underwear and a bald head on our nightly news instead of proper information how both parties are robbing our financial future to make profit for themselves.
In the end, television is all smoke and mirrors to distract the average joe from seeing anything but the reality they present.
Besides Big Brother already exists, and the networks already control the public opinion. Instead of us being presented any balanced view of the events in Iraq, we are given the horrors of 50 mi. Baghdad while anything else goes mostly unheard. We get the special updates on a the idiocy in our court system over Anna Nicole Smith, but the media ignores the problems of illegal immigration (including the alarming number of crimes committed by them). Not to mention that we get Britney Spears' running around with no underwear and a bald head on our nightly news instead of proper information how both parties are robbing our financial future to make profit for themselves.
In the end, television is all smoke and mirrors to distract the average joe from seeing anything but the reality they present.
“Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.” - Andre Gide
