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
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























