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ISPs Race to Create Two-Tiered Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The ISP race toward a two-tiered Internet is picking up speed. This
article from Michael Geist
points to a wide range of examples involving packet preferencing,
content blocking, traffic shaping, and public musings about premium
charges for faster content downloads. ISPs are now reducing
access to peer-to-peer applications, blocking Skype, and, scariest of
all, lobbying Congress to let them do it."
Its all the people clicking to it who read it on Digg a couple hours ago.
/. story just before this one.
Just like the
For that matter, it's starting to make sense why so many libertarians/Libertarians are also Christian. It takes a mind capable of swallowing "God loves humanity, but he'll send most humans to Hell" to swallow the idea of "to make the market more open to little players, we'll let the big players do whatever they want".
This is complete Orwellian doublethink, and utter nonsense to boot.
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
Mankind is inherently good, but oppression and his upbringing quickly teach even the smallest child that the best way to make yourself happy is to hurt and control others.
So now you've traded a somewhat decent house for a SHACK. You've also done this during a period of historically high petroleum costs. People are starting to burn popcorn to heat their homes because of the high price of propane and you want to do something stupid like live in a rinky dink trailer.
Besides, it's the LAND that's expensive. Living in a trailer won't change that.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.