By Detector | 04 June 2008

Every significant Internet provider around the world is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you’ll have to pay for separate subscriptions for every site that’s not in the package.

This is not a rumor; this is just clear fact for violation the principles of net neutrality and freedom of any internet user.

If “they” (ISP’s companies) succeed with their plans every smaller websites/services/blogs will disappear and multinationals with big budgets will finally success with their secret plans.

Debate for net neutrality has several years history. There have been many lawsuits in cases where an ISP’s blocked access to a certain competitor’s site (small or big). Other example is that ISP’s in several occasion crippled download speeds on services that they felt were using up too much of their bandwidth. Insider contacts of some major ISP’s confirmed that informations. All of this happened because Internet users are very active and focused: they only go to the sites and services they want, users simply switch to something else if one service becomes too commercialized with annoying advertisements. With that users go around classical mayor medium industries which offer psychological chew informations and advertisement. With this users freedom, it’s no surprise that the past 6 years the industries have secretly been planning a ‘take-over’ to secure the Internet as a purely commercial playground.

Major Internet providers are currently making agreements and planning to switch simultaneously, somewhere in the year 2012. This is currently all going on under very strict Non-Disclosure Agreements because the last thing they want is the masses speaking out against it. The guys from the video are well-known net neutrality activists, and they have contacts with many big internet industry insiders. They a part of I Power website which is platform for joining forces, sharing ideas and spreading awareness (http://ipower.ning.com).

What we can do about this conspiracy?

The answer is simple: Spread the word and use any political or media contacts you may know. Together let’s make sure that by 2012, ISP’s will not dare to think about anything that goes against the principles of net neutrality.

People are becoming aware of the conspiracy of those internet industries. Free people can pressure those ISP’s. People must keep pushing for net neutrality laws and must start spreading awareness on a massive scale to make sure that ISP’s think twice before signing anything that’ll go against the freedom of Internet as open medium like it is today.

And, on the end: ask yourself a questions: Why ISP’s constantly growing their bandwidths for internet mass users? Is that just for reading emails or writing blogs for those masses? Or, there is something else behind that?

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