Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Internet two

Hello everyone

Couple of days back I stumbled upon this news in a local newspaper, which claims that some people out there are trying to make internet much like a cable tv subscription, where we pay to view websites of our choice. We get access to a handful of regular sites like our email and others for free and pay for the rest. Our choice as a netizen gets limited by the ISP's choice of service providing. These ISP can decide which website they want us to take to and which not to. Obviously those ones who have paid them and they want to endorce gets maximum exposure and others just seems not to exist. Here in this post I am just trying to share some of my findings and its consequences.
The internet has become a part and parcel of our everyday existence now, its decade long of existance has bought many a wonder into our society and our communication system. For a long time we, the net users had the choice of which website we want to navigate, to whose service we want and whom to avoid. If this new statute comes in as a law, the existing ways of we using the internet can be challenged and give rise to a situation of what media people say as the 'death of internet'. May be just another way of commercialization of Internet, but at the end of the day it costs a fortune into our very hands. The internet has always acted as the largest information system and its death can result in moving back to those ages of slow progression rather than advancing it to the next level. In this way the consequences of this can lead to immense devastation and what I have referred to is just touching the tip of the ice berg.

Readers, if you have more information or would like to add a comment, feel free to do so and thanks for reading the post.
Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5RQrxkGgCM

1 comment:

RedRooster said...

Wow!, Your right, it would be total chaos. People would be forced to go back to hand carring messages and the passage of information would be slow and grueling. The folks that are probably suffering from the result of the internet, and the fast pace of business it brings, would in turn be back on top of the food chain prospering while others collapsed.
Nice Post!
Jefferson