This Wednesday, Congress is scheduled to turn control of the Internet over to...

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BS. There's no way you can "shift control" of the internet. You cannot own the internet. Maybe a few huge companies that control their own parts of the internet, but not the net as a whole.

 

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042306G.shtml
crazy

 

Mmkay now your just tryin to piss me off.

It's not funny, or real. Quit it.

 

If it were fake, I'm sure snopes would've picked up on that right?

 

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That just sucks beyond reason.

 

Gotta be PURE Bullshit. I'll be DAMNED if I give over control of MY website or Domain!
I'll delete the whole thing before I give over control!

 

*shrugs*

Does it matter? The apocalypse is coming in just a few years ... in 2012, which will be just after Bush's third term ...

 

mattinvegas, its not about giving control over to them. from what i understand what they will be doing is charging websites high rates for high speed service to their customers. so basically if you don't pay their enormously high rates (which will be something that only the major companies can afford to pay) then the connection to your website is slowed down significantly to the point where it will be bothersome to try to get on to your website and people will probably give up and go somewhere else.

this seems like one of those really important issues that is going to effect us all greatly and no one will even know anything about it until a few months after it happens and then they will start mentioning it on the news and everyone will be all outraged but it is too late to do anything now. mainstream media really pisses me off. what also pisses me off is that my new-sites will probably be slowed out of existence and i will have to rely on the mainstream media.

 

maybe a good idea would be a public intranet created by the people for the people. each pc would have wireless capability that talks to other nearby stations. no-one asks for details of who anyone else, it would be impossible for all information being transmitted to be eavesdropped on as information would be routed through many different servers and no-one would know exactly who they transmitting to or where they were receiving from. all this data would be rigorously encrypted to put the cherry on the cake. maybe people start laying their own fibre optic or uni directional antennas network? seems far fetched? not so long ago the idea of people owning computers was unrealistic, then the idea of the network in the home crazy. how about this for a crazy idea - why not simply start creating wireless/ or fibre optic fibre LANS for a community - no cost for local calls. the LANS are then hooked up to form a WAN again no cost for telephone calls or data transfer.

the connection might be slower but with encryption and anonymous nodes your right to free speech is protected. once everyone gets the idea of free WANS then everyone will buy out a tel co for a dollar each and have intercontinental comms.

this is my mad rave.

 

arghh hippyland playing up double post

 

sorry double post

 

I have heard this idea presented before. It is a good idea, but unfortunately it would not scale well. At best you could provide coverage inside a city, where you will always have a couple of neighbors. Out in the country, where your nearest neighbor is 3 miles sway, it is not going to work. Then connecting all urban networks would still require some centralized backbone to carry the signals between cities and once that backbone crossed state lines it would become a matter of interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by the federal government for the "Greater Good" of the people.

The federal government would never allow a massive country wide darknet completely outside thier control, to exist. 30 years ago, we could have done this, but not today, not in the age of warrantless wiretaps.

With all that said, I think this is not far fetched at all. Up until a few years ago there was a massive worldwide network of computers that connected people in a very similar way. Back in the 80's and 90's we communicated using our modems through BBS and the BBS's communicated through larger networks like Fidonet. Sometimes it would take days for a message to propagate through the system, but it worked. During the golden age of BBSing, it is estimated that there were more than 30,000 world wide, but my guess is, considering many were underground, invitation only boards, it could have easily been much more and there would be no way to know. It was an amazing network, literally put together by hobbyists, and I could easily see this system, using current technology, coming into existance again.

 

What about long-range frameworks, wimax being the better known but not the only one, other startups working on this too.

 

Thats a valid point. When long range wireless that does not depend on a 3rd party to provide bandwidth becomes readily available and inexpensive, things will change.