Seaniebawn
Jedi Master
whitecoast said:that's part of it alright and I think that's why they can't just get rid of it, but with the C's and P's saying that it's not going to last for ever, and considering how crazy the environment is at the moment it's probably more likely that it's going to go regardless what the reasons are, Siberia made a good point also, maybe it will be good to learn to fly kite so you know your own :)
I know that Mark Zukerberg and other rich tech and other companies are working on a project called Internet.org. I think it's basically a slimmed down version of the Internet, containing only major content providers and site services (like Facebook, Amazon, Wikipedia, etc. Eventually I think the plan is to get ISPs to provide access only to those core services (under the pretext of it being more secure) and thereby exclude smaller and more marginal websites. That would keep the average person from rebelling too hard, but the Internet as the free and open platform we know it may be shut down.
Wiki sez:
Internet.org is a partnership between social networking services company Facebook and six companies (Samsung, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Nokia and Qualcomm) that plans to bring affordable access to selected Internet services to less developed countries by increasing efficiency, and facilitating the development of new business models around the provision of Internet access.[1][2]
It has been criticized for violating net neutrality and favoring Facebook's own services over its rivals.[3] An Indian journalist, in his reply to Mark Zuckerberg's article defending Internet.org in India, criticized Internet.org as "being just a Facebook proxy targeting India's poor" as it provides restricted Internet access to Reliance Telecom's subscribers in India.[4] Until April 2015, Internet.org users could access (for free) only a few websites, and Facebook's role as gatekeeper in determining what websites were in that list was criticised for violating net neutrality. However, in early May 2015, Facebook announced that the Internet.org Platform would be opened to websites that met its criteria.[5]
Yeah I don't disagree with you on that point, but that's assuming that everything is going to continue the way it is, there is proposal's for a two tiered Internet, but that presupposes there will be a network, just different divisions, there are way's around it either way by creating your own network, or other innovative technologies, but that all depends on the infrastructure to support it, electrical, design, manufacturing, fabrication, installation, support and maintenance, high tech and very specialized, In my view unsupportable without having such support structure in place, so getting back to what the C's and the P's no more internet, I think it would have to be something big to disrupt that sort of system or at least something that can't readily be controlled either way it's a big problem, and the majority of the people are going to be effected by it.