Comments | tehlils: Um... how about not?

tehlils

Um... how about not?

Feb 06, 2006 11:51

Just saw this on fatale's journal:
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies have a vision for the Internet's future. Verizon, AT&T (formerly SBC), Comcast, and Bell South want to create a privately run and branded "pay-as-you-go" Internet, making everything we do online a "billable," revenue-generating service. Our every cyberspace move will ( Read more... )

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prettyveela February 6 2006, 16:57:04 UTC

Damn aol can piss me off, but I want to hug them right now, da hell are they thinking?

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:04:24 UTC

Yeah. AOL does suck, fortunately I get paid to use it. LOL. But we use Comcast, and that's mentioned several times in that article. >:(

theriaulogy February 6 2006, 17:01:08 UTC

ewwww, that makes me want to die. :(

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:04:42 UTC

*hugs*

rhythmsextion February 6 2006, 17:01:31 UTC

This just makes me ask so many questions. The first one being: how? Seriously. There is SO MUCH out there that it just seems impossible to me for anyone to get a handle on it and try charging for it in that sort of way.

Plus, it seems absolutely detrimental to the future of the Internet to take it to this level. I mean, half the reason the Internet is so wonderful is because it's largely a free source of so much information.

I can't say I'm surprised that some assholes want to make money from it, I'm mostly just... confused.

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:03:06 UTC

Yeah. I don't know how they intend to make it work, but gah, the idea of them even trying to rankles me.

rhythmsextion February 6 2006, 17:05:10 UTC

I can't imagine it will work. If they try charging people like that, people will just simply stop using it. The world existed before the internet and can exist without it. It just seems stupid.

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:06:51 UTC

*nods* It does seem stupid. Especially considering I work from home and my job is completely internet based. Can you imagine the bills that would rack up?

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shezan February 6 2006, 17:02:45 UTC

BEHEAD the oligarchic b@st@rds!

*borrowing a slogan from the week-end's London demonstrations*

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:05:10 UTC

No shit. Gah.

darthrami February 6 2006, 17:07:32 UTC

Most of my friends in Australia have service like that; after a certain number of page views, downloads, etc, their service turns off for that month. It's ridiculous, and a pain in the fucking ass.

tehlils February 6 2006, 17:09:54 UTC

Yeah. It would be very unfortunate if we switched to that and in the middle of a shift for work I get cut off for the rest of the month. Bah.

dwlikeebeinlost February 6 2006, 17:29:30 UTC

:OY:

I'd use that all up in one night!!!

::gets sick feeling::

It would suck so bad Hoover would be jelluz!!