by Paul
Bloggers Unite
July 23, 2008 in Technology by Paul
As Homer Simpson once remarked “The internet? Is that still around?”
Is the death of the free internet imminent? Kevin Parkinson suggests so in his article (following). As he makes clear, Canada is a good start point for this sort of nonsense as it has been a major testing lab for our would-be masters as they seek to restructure their world system along feudalistic lines.
Some of the large blog providers such as blogger, wordpress and typepad may take umbrage at this move. More than 1% of all websites (including this one) now run on wordpress, a not inconsiderable number of reasonably smart people who know how the net works and what is at stake. So, a few million bloggers pounding at the doors of the Canadian ISP’s in question may bring them up short. In fact, this could become one of those cause celebres that helps spur freedom lovers to unite and immolate a common enemy. A better title for the piece could therefore be “Death of Canadian ISP’s Imminent”. Now there’s a thought.
As Mr Parkinson points out, the inevitable appeals to “security” and “protection” will yet again be wheeled out as part of the psychological war of attrition to be waged on a pliable public mind. Yet another outing for the old Problem-Reaction-Solution mechanism. It’s because ever more people are becoming clued in to this scam that the charging model is being instigated, a control pipe with which to limit free speech and thereby continue the process of pacifying the individual.
Net neutrality is another aspect to this control culture. The CEO of Virgin Broadband in the UK, Neil Berkett, dismissed net neutrality with a very rude word which we wouldn’t print here. But you can read it here.
Mr Berkett admits that Virgin are already in negotiation with certain suppliers who will effectively pay Virgin to be on the fast lane, whilst “other” sites will be relegated to the internet bus lane. The beginnings of a two (or more) tier system and the seizing of the net by visionless corporations and the visionless people who pretend to lead them. Of course that’s not strictly true. They do have a vision, it just happens to be one that excludes the community spirit (unless it is the bogus community spirit of so-called social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook etc) that built the net in the first place and that is its greatest treasure.
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