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2012: The End To Net Neutrality?

I have been interested in recent years how very few people/corporations control the power to supply the Internet. I have come across this conspiracy theory, which might be worth discussing in an ISP related forum, however far fetched:

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

It could be possible to control the Internet, if you had the agreement of the ten tier-1 carriers & the government. ISPs could then be given filtered content from the backbone level. China is able to filter out the majority of unwanted content, so it is definitely possible for other countries/states.

Regulation happend to Radio, it also happend to TV, how else could the governments control what is said/shown to the populous. Remember, the majority of all our news & entertainment is fed from the same trough of agencies, production companies and distributors.

Therefore we could have censorship across the board for the majority. Though, a select few could even access less restrictive grid networks, ideas discussed at the birth of the Internet, such as:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2001/03/42230

Interesting, in theory could work ... but who knows what the future may hold for the World Wide Web...

Regards

James
 
True, if governments all agreed and sometimes we should be thankful that they don't, although it's another question with the usual pro's and con's. The biggest one would be how effective any kind of filtering could be and what would you filter? Personally I don't think it's a technically realistic idea to do this at the tier-1 carrier level, online data is far too dynamic and changing for that.

I guess it's conceivable that you could block certain specific websites, such as the most horrific, but any kind of dynamic filter could cause serious performance problems that would affect billions of people around the globe. Not to mention that I don’t think even the fastest super computer is capable of managing such a large amount of data in real-time.

Depends what you want to do and how though, but I doubt we will see the Internet prophesised in some of that material. It's just not that easy to control.
 
China is stifling all consumer output. But the USA and Britain read EVERYONE's.

They have submarines designed to plug into optical cables and not get caught out by signal strength or modulation. Once a splice is made that cable sends all its info to data banks for inspection.

As they invented computers and encryption it is unlikely that they can't read almost all of it.

There sounds like a lot of traffic but not all earth's 60 000 000 000 people use it. Those that do don't send all that much which is new.

So bearing in mind the NSA and SI6 or whoever, have the best brains and biggest computers, massive data banks for filtering out standard headers and other form things, and overall control over how things get set up; how much is there to be looked at really?

Say each one of us represents the average user.
Say we produce 10 or 20 pages of original thought on a good day. How many pages is that earth-wide?

Bear in mind that standard internet code can be filtered as white noise. And that they might be looking only for the occasional red lettered word such as "Ossama", "Chimpanzee" or "Jihad" on most ISP lines.

And they can arrest anyone they want to for 28 or more days if they want to take their time looking at your computer. We have really lost a great deal of freedom already and it is masquerading as free speech.
 
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