February 07, 2006
The End of the Internet?
Major cable and phone companies like Verizon, Comcast and Bell South are proposing strategies that could force citizen users to pay fees for virtually everything they do on the Internet.
If these companies get their way, the US Government will have extremely limited control over their implementations. Besides tracking and storing our information in a manner not unlike the National Security Agency, these corporations are devising plans that would force us all to pay more for individual services. From surfing the Net to sending e-mails to streaming videos, these companies want us all to pay a much higher price. Is this a violation of ethics or just business at work?
For more information, see Jeff Chester's article entitled The End of the Internet, published in The Nation on February 1, 2006.
Posted by Buzz Webster at February 7, 2006 04:36 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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