Friday, April 07, 2006
Dvorak Uncensored - The telcos win: Republicans vote to close the internet
What this means is that your ISP will be able to block any competing website and hold up any website for ransom. For example, your DSL provider will legally be able to slow down Vonage to make it unworkable, leaving their own VoIP service as the only option. And all ISPs will be able to force Google or Amazon to pay for access to you. Heck, isn’t that what we’re paying our monthly fee for?! To access the internet? Not any more! We’ll be paying for bandwidth but won’t be able to use it.