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The Death Of The Open Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looking-into-the-crystal-ball dept.

Crackerman111 writes "There's an article up on Economy.com's The Dismal Scientist that's sort of a follow up to the /. post a few days ago that talked about how businesses want a new profitable internet."

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  1. Minor editing change... by Robber+Baron · · Score: 3, Funny
    Thus, the Internet is evolving into a smarter network, which will allow easy access by dumber terminals.

    Uhhh...shouldn't that be dumber users (hopefully with shiny new visa cards)?

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  2. Re:Subsidies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Meanwhile, learn to close your tags.

  3. The answer isn't smarter networks by Fatal0E · · Score: 3, Funny

    What the net needs are smarter users. It's not the amount of information that traverses it that is important, it's the ability to sift through it with an educated, objective mind. Joe Sixpack needs to be elevated and then you'll really start seeing some happenin things being done with the net (not on it). The way I see it, our kids are gonna lead the revolution that changes the way /.'ers see the net, not us.

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  4. And it worked, too. by IPFreely · · Score: 2, Funny
    its more like the Airlines getting together and asking for more business friendly laws of physics.

    "please mr newton, it would be sooo much easier if we didn't have to deal with these silly wings and engines"

    Ask and ye shall receive. A nice fellow named Albert gave them a new physics that allowed for time dialation and distance shrinking if they flew fast enough, and under a suitable gravity they also get warped space for free. Great!

    (Of cource it was an inside job; he was someones relativity).

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  5. Network Guy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Worst. Internet. Ever.

  6. Re:They did by einhverfr · · Score: 3, Funny
    What do you think those blue signs next to the interstate with corporate logos on them are? Normal countries have little symbols to indicate road related services, such as gasoline and hotel, at exits. Here we plaster all that ugly stuff up and let people erect huge billboards that blot out the sky. Thank you Bill Clinton, you sellout.

    So, if Microsoft's vision becomes reality, will we see, by the side of the Information Superhighway, blue screens with corporate logos? ;)

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  7. Re:Death? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > Look at the power of the site you're reading - created entirely with flat HTML

    I thought it was created by a thousand monkeys wearing bicyles, or something like that...