The Death of the Internet.

[Raydawg1234]

The article on the DU homepage scared me:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/06/03/01_blogosphere.html


How can we stop this from happening?

[Poll_Blind]

1. Then wireless meganetworks, which can be easily grassrooted will...

...spring up and take their place. And then none of the greedy bastards will be getting anyone's money. Oh you won't be able to play Quake 4 with someone on the otherside of the world as easily but you can still get out the truth.

PB

[Minnesota Libra]

5. How easy would it be to do this and........

.......how quickly do you think these "meganetworks could be up and running?? More info please, just in case. :hug:

[dusmcj]

2. if business wants to deliver utilities, it can learn to be a steward.

America is an existence proof that the market sucks at delivering needs as opposed to wants. Medical care and the "medical industry" stand out in this regard. Other utilities, i.e. services which are ubiquitous and essentially needed, are heavily regulated and price-controlled, so that essentially private industry is forced to act as a steward of a public resource by virtue of legislation. Time to do the same with bandwidth - you want to make money off a public trust, you deliver service which prioritizes the public interest over your private profit. Don't like it, fuck off. Have a nice day.

Since industry whines that anything out of the public sector which demonstrates how inefficient the market is is "unfair competition" (justification for the drastic reduction in federal R&D dollars post-Raygun) it's time for it to put up or shut up - deliver comparable results or, as I said, fuck off.

[glitch]

4. Well said. nt

[gordianot]

3. Think you have seen angry people, let them try it.

They can lie, steal, send our children to wars based on lies, torture, tear up the Constitution, spy on us, but don't you dare downgrade the internet. The telephone company that reviled detested entity no one loves. Something we can agree on even with freepers.

Even with election fraud I can feel the winds changing.