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Opposition to AOL's 'Email Tax' Growing

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-still-undecided dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register is reporting that opposition to AOL's proposed 'Email Tax' that would create a two tier email filtering system is growing. DearAOL.com, representing such organisations as the EFF and Craigslist, has written an open letter to AOL asking them to reconsider. "

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  1. You know there is a business plan in there... by Noryungi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... Somewhere ...

    Based on the antics of megacorps like AOL and Bell South. It goes like this:

    1. Invest large amounts of $$$ into dark fiber to create independent network.
    2. Advertise your service as: the last truly free (as in speech) Internet.
    (no DRM, no censorship, no [bittorrent|skype|other] filtering, no stupid ideas... EVER!)
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

    I believe step 3 has something to do with advertising on Slashdot, but I am not sure.

    Step 2 could also be named: "We have common carrier status and we want to keep it, bobdammit!".

    It's either that or we all run back to fidonet, really. And fidonet seems more and more appealing every day. :-(

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