Read this! The internet is about to get messed up.

gigaom.com — The Internet, as we know it, is going to change (and not for the good... thinkthe really bad, worst-case remember-that-Internet-thing? bad) if the gov andVerizon, comcast, att, etc. get their way. I doubt there is any other issue thatis more important right now. Digg up. Apr 23, 2006 View in Crawl 4

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ryland Apr 23, 2006

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"1 is they want to get rid of voip, and 2 is they want google (ect, ect) to pay for the bandwidth it uses."I can see why they want to get rid of VOIP, it cuts directly into their business model. Unfortunately for them, it's not the government's job to help them remain profitable when their business plan turns out to be a dud.As far as Google, I pay my internet bill every month, and Google pays for their connectivity every month. Again, it's not the government's job to intervene to insure corporate profits. If they want to overcharge somebody, overcharge spammers. Last I heard, spam messages took up the lion's share of bandwidth.

d4nmy3rs Apr 23, 2006

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i do... i

knoton Apr 23, 2006

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Just ask yourself this: What is more likely to come to a resolution of some sort within the next 6 months to a year? Nuclear armaments? Starvation? Disease? No more oil? or Telecom charges based on the type of content and where it comes from? This particular event has the capability to cripple the development of almost innumerable companies, concepts, sites, etc. If someone else has any info on how to end world hunger in the next year believe me it would be bigger than this. But for right now, its not.

fireball74 Apr 24, 2006

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Better Google than the US Government, or AT&T, or Verizon, or any number of corporations at this point.

tmcdigg Apr 24, 2006

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Competition will keep some part of net neutrality at-bay. If I were to find out (for example) my broaband provider was slowing down my broaband bits slower than the so-called provisioned rates because they want to shake-down the supplier, and it affected me(to the point where I'd notice) I'd switch providers, so it would backfire.. and given telcos position, with 15-30megabit plans, if the difference edged into their so-called guaranteed bits, they could see churn and those $1k+ installtions will be collecting dust.

tidejwe Apr 25, 2006

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K, there are WAY TOO MANY of these type of articles on DIGG already. How has anyone missed it? It may not be a "DUPE" since it's a different link, but it's the SAME ol' story as the last 4 that hit the front page already. I think it is a BIG deal too...but why do I want to keep digging the same old DUPED story when nothing's changed yet?

rontarson Apr 28, 2006

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i like cheese

zodiacal May 27, 2006

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won't encryption solve all these packet shaping fears?

responder656 Sep 17, 2007

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Looks like it has happened now. The digg comment system is messed up.

uroptimumhealth Jun 16, 2011

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Believe it or not this is our only medium of freedom of expression http://www.reg6.com more and more people are being messed up by health care reforms too so read this and learn to make your own medicine http://www.natromed.com

uroptimumhealth Jun 16, 2011