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Originally Posted by Martin
I've been following this. The big companies want to scrap Web 1.0 and bring in Web 2.0 and that will mean you pay for your Internet the same way you do for your cable. You'll only be offered packages. You'll pay a certain amount for certain channels. So say you want the myspace, msn, hotmail. Then you'll only have access to those sites. Say you want Face Book, You Tube, Google then you pay for those. That's the way it heading. No more free access to anywhere you want to visit. Also for guys who make websites you're going to have to pay for a permit to publish a website and you'll be put on a sub domain that they own. Crazy shit.
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It sounds crazy, and I am not sure it will ever head that far down that road (well anytime soon) - but generally speaking without net neutrality and non-censorship by Government I've no doubt the internet will head down a terrible path. Ironically perhaps, the only thing really saving it at this point is business as well; Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and every small to large internet business in between that actually understands what the internet is about. We can be thankful that many Governments have learnt a lot about free economics over the last 100 years, and that today they can somewhat relate that back to having a free and open internet without ridiculous taxes, charges or regulation. I really hope that doesn't change.