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I want free press and open access to the internet. I have no faith in the government and the corporate institutions involved.
I'll keep the discourse open between the elected officials (read fools) and me so my opinion is relayed.
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Originally Posted by iroquoispliskin
Oh believe me i've heard this for about 2 years now.
This is one of the worst ideas they've ever came up with.
You can't just say no internet. The internet is an infrastructure of many different computer servers.
The WWW is the software that enables you to use that. And if the government was retarded enough(don't get me wrong this one is) to charge the richest of people would be broke by going from their server to say yahoo.com because for me to get to here it takes about 30 hops. and they want to charge per hop. and lets say they charge 5 dollars 30 x 5 = 150 dollars just to get to city-data.com. That's stupid. The government has no concept of the evolved Infrastructure of the Internet. It's no longer just the DOD it's the world.
The government may have the idea of what started, but they don't OWN the Internet. You take away yahoo, who does offer the internet there goes so many people it's not funny. Then you just keep taking away until you have Verizon, Sprint, Bell South, and the others. They would have no money. Because it would literally have to be free to connect to the server to make it almost worth while, but once you take that third hop, you're pretty much screwed.
I want free press and open access to the internet. I have no faith in the government and the corporate institutions involved.
I'll keep the discourse open between the elected officials (read fools) and me so my opinion is relayed.
Oh I don't blame you, it's bad enough that they want to charge us more for everything else. This is basically the only way I get to see the state I want to move to (CA) for free.
And now they want to charge for that.
I'll take a drive around the U.S before I let them charge me more than it already costs for the crappy access I get. I don't have 56K, but it's bad enough.
I'd help, but my representative couldn't careless for anyone, but himself. Which is why I never bother anymore. He's told people it's not my problem. I didn't vote for the jerk. So I refuse to deal with the incompetent jerk.
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