Comments | lazerus101: Spread the Word, Make a Difference!

lazerus101

Spread the Word, Make a Difference!

Apr 23, 2009 01:25

Yes this is a repost, but an important one. Please if you do one thing today, read and act on this.

The Internet as we know it is at risk because of proposed new EU rules going through end of April. Under the proposed new rules, broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of websites you can look at ( Read more... )

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sisterelwood April 23 2009, 02:15:18 UTC

Likewise over here but here's hoping that our EU friends manage to keep this from going through.

tktiger April 23 2009, 00:57:44 UTC

This is important shit...

If we lost access to the UKFur Forums, where would we get all our drama from? ;)

lazerus101 April 23 2009, 01:04:54 UTC

This is bigger than just UKFur forums TK and you know it. Stop making light of what could, if passed, be pretty serious.
What if your they deemed Picasa and similar services to be part of the "Premium Package" and you had to pay extra for them. What if small sites like the ones where you find out about Steam Train scheduling fell under the radar of approved sites so you lost access to them altogether.
I think I am right to say we cant trust the government to be able to competantly police something as huge as the internet.

tktiger April 23 2009, 22:39:00 UTC

I'll worry about it when it gets passed. We (the people) get completely ignored when it comes to things like this anyway, unless we go around smashing up shit in London.

Besides, we got on okay before the Internet - we can get along okay if it dies (as we know it).

snowfields April 23 2009, 01:24:44 UTC

Welcome to last week. Your e-mails & phonecalls & everything had to be in by the 21st April. It's a whole load of crap anyway. This kind of tiered system would require /every/ ISP in the world to work together and provide exactly the same strata of services. This is patently not going to happen. The fundamental rule here is supply and demand. If an ISP restricts services in a tiered, packaged way then people will just /leave/ it. At the end of the day, the ISPs are there to make money and they won't do that by limiting what people can do.

sirius_moonshdw April 23 2009, 09:25:49 UTC

Seconded - simple competition will rule the day on this one. Also: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/04/eu-parliament-raises-hurdles-with-three-strikes-rule.ars

It's on hold anyway.

I can't imagine who a two-tier internet would benefit. Nobody would ever pay for it, so I doubt that anyone would supply it.