TOMPAINE.com - Stealing The Internet: "The industry coalition spoke of 'tiered' service, where consumers would be charged according to 'gold, silver and bronze' levels of bandwidth use. The days where lawmakers once spoke about eradicating the 'Digital Divide' in America has come full circle. Under the scenario presented by the lobbyists, people on fixed incomes would have to accept a stripped-down Internet, full of personally targeted advertising. Other users could get a price break if they receive bundled content -- news, music, games -- from one telecom or media company. Anybody interested in other 'non-mainstream' news, software or higher-volume usage, could pay for the privilege. The panel's response was warm, suggesting that the industry should work this out with little federal intrusion. That approach has already been embraced by the industry-friendly Federal Communications Commission. "
Nah, no conspiracy here. Just normal market economics working to control and parcel out the world you get exposed to beyond your natural sense.
That ' industry coalition' is Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, Disney and others. It really only takes about 15 or 20 people to decide on this path, then only about 100.000.000 apathetic Americans has to ignore it, and we're well on our way.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment