The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
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Why those rotten little ingrate bastards…
As far as I’m concerned, that concept is nothing short of an open declaration of war. Phone and cable companies should feel honored and lucky that anyone chooses to stick with them at all, considering their respective sordid histories; not to mention the ability to get both types of services for nothing (or next to nothing) online.
Anyone who supports this is unquestionably moronic beyond the descriptive limits of human language, and should be rendered unable to reproduce. Preferably with much discomfort.
It sounds like members Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation are on the right side on this one.
This story was covered on the NBC Nightly News tonight (a month after I read about it here on MattGiff). It sounds like it will never happen because there are so many who are up in arms about it from free speech organizations to gun lobby groups (hopefully not literally up in arms).
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