Is the internet getting too "Owned"

[SifuAbel]

Seems that two rivals are breaking the internet into chunks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051006/wr_nm/backbone_dc

[greensage22]

everything is owned by someone or something. It wouldn't bother me at
all if the whole internet crashed....
maybe people would go outside for a change, then we could meet other martial artists instead of typing back and forth.

[FuXnDajenariht]

shouldn't that be illegal? its companies putting their own interests above their customers. its like their each trying to bully people into siding with them because all their friends or family uses one or the other network. imagine if telephone companies didn't allow incoming service from rival companies?

[David Jamieson]

It's a primer for what has yet to come.

Could even be a cover story.

There are a lot of people who are mighty interested in controlling the internet. Particularly governments who want to control information flow.

You will begin to see more restrictive access in teh very near future.

In the next decade or so, the internet will be no more and instead will be independent networks internal to countries and only crossed over by company agreements for sharing technologies and customer bases.

It's called a firewall, but it's bigger. China has one and it's getting much more rigid.

Plus, there will be penalties for subversives, especially in the good old usa where litigousness is at the level of Red and Goofy. :p

But yeah, it would be cool if it just went away in it's current form. the internet is mostly crap anyway. I'd like to see more attention to content and sourcing from pretty much every site out there.

[Repulsive Monkey]

There's no two ways about it whenever big companies make you suck on the big one, you always gonna get totally own3d!

[paradoxbox]

There is simply no way to PREVENT ENTIRELY the access of traffic from a personal computer on such a broad scale.

Anyone that can access an anonymous or secure proxy can view the websites that are so called 'unreachable'. A little ingenuity on the part of computer savvy browsers solves the problem temporarily, and the same thing works around the world. You can browse uncensored porn in Japan or visit anti communist sites in China by using this method. It's nothing spectacular.

Governments controlling information flow, it's all just conspiracy. The fact is decent computer users are smarter than governments will ever be, information on the internet is no longer controllable except by terminating the internet access entirely.

Encryption and anonymous proxies beat any attempts to control information any day.

[David Jamieson]

you uk-ers have been paying for a television licence for some time though haven't you?

or did that go with the poll tax too?:p

[SimonM]

everything is owned by someone or something. It wouldn't bother me at
all if the whole internet crashed....
maybe people would go outside for a change, then we could meet other martial artists instead of typing back and forth.

I go out to meet other martial artists in an hour. For now I am doing internet.

[Ou Ji]

This goes against the design and intent of the Internet. It's a conglomeration of independant servers, where any section can be taken out (destroyed, shutdown, nuked) without shutting down the whole system.

Just like the big corps displacing the mom and pop shops it has the potential for disaster. Never put all your eggs in one basket.

[SPJ]

Internet is for the public 4ever.

Internet started with computer links in the defense department in the lat 50's and early 60'.

Internet was popularized with e-mail and news net among computers in universities and research labs.

The computers in the universities formed the backbone of the traffic or roads for internet.

The browser Netscape made it easy to browse text, image and links to webpages.

It is popular in universities.

Jerry San started to write pages for links for search engine in the trailor for a few summers.

Yahoo is popular for search engine amony college students.

Microsoft entered the scence since 1995.

Internet are links of computers including your home computers.

Internet service providers or ISP. AOL started and is still popular for home users.

If your home computer or ISP not working.

Then go to public libray or universities.

Their computers are still linked.

I think.

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