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Old 07-04-2009, 12:22 PM   #2
Anchor
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Default Re: We can kiss our free internet goodbye?

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Observing recently many glitches and up-down problems on different internet sites, also our Avalon forum being down lately, I'm wondering if we are not heading straight into the "DARK AGES OF INTERNET" and we can kiss goodbye our freedom on internet we have right now. The time is short:
Depends on what you mean by free...

I have long expected an assault on freedom of expression on the internet, and there is evidence as you have pointed out that this may one day be curtailed.

The big killer is commercial factors and "cost" of bandwidth. It does cost money to build all those tubes, and the owners of them wish to feel in control of thier assets.

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