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Fairpoint Pledges To Violate Net Neutrality
wytcld writes "Fairpoint Communications, which has taken over Verizon's landline business in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, has announced that on February 6, 'AOL, Yahoo! and MSN subscribers will continue to have access to content but will no longer be able to access their e-mail through the third-party Web site. Instead, Yahoo! and other third-party e-mail will be accessed directly at the MyFairPoint.net portal.' Since Verizon spun off its lines to Fairpoint in a maneuver that got debt off of Verizon's balance sheets by saddling Fairpoint with it, there was concern by the public service boards of the three states about how Fairpoint would deal with that debt. Fairpoint's profit plan: force all Webmail users through Fairpoint's portal, by blocking all direct access to Webmail portals other than its own. Will Fairpoint's own search engine portal be next? What can stop them?"
No, no, there is no secret sauce; let me have a crack at it for you:
1) Irritate your customers by reducing their connectivity
2) get into greater debt
3) ask for Govt. bailout package
4) profit
5) get bought by competition to salvage the broken pieces
6) more profit
rediculous
YOU MUST DIE NOW
allyourbasebelongtous.MyFairPoint.net
I'm pretty sure that would give you a 404. The correct url is
allyourbaseAREbelongtous.MyFairPoint.net
Maybe they don't acknowledge beta products.
Your penis is small. It's a shame there's no cure for your inadequacies.
And as soon as there support lines are ringing non-stop, and they start losing some of thier bigger customers, that will stop pretty soon.
Their and their, you stupid cunt.
Ewe mussed dye now.
He only capitalized the "ARE" to show that it was the part that was missing from the domain name in his parent. How does it feel to be so incredibly, painfully stupid? Retard.
... but cellphonscht kshcht bzsakt shchtkischt rural kschischt bzczoscht, and ...
and internet meme I just haven't heard of yet, or did you have a stroke?
this opens the door to ISP blocking of all sorts of different on-line services that these Big Players are steaking their futures on.
They're opening some kind of food website?
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"[...]but cellphonscht kshcht bzsakt shchtkischt rural kschischt bzczoscht, and[...]"
WTF!?
Why would you use a comma before the word 'and'?
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Well, the "Fair" in Fairpoint's name is a bit like the "Honest" in Honest John's Used Cars.
Blancmange
I thought Net Neutrality was a bad thing and we should just trust that big business always have our best interests at heart.
foodnetwork.com isn't working for some odd reason now...
Trye "foodpoint.com" instead.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.