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DEL.ICIO.USFiltering is fine for water, bad for the Net
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a move afoot by the big Internet providers to ‘filter’ the Internet.
That’s a polite way of saying that they want to check to see what you’re doing online. The reason - searching out people who download pirated material. But, to do that, they have to monitor what you’re doing.
Here’s a Web link so you can check out the growing possibility that Big Brother wants to keep an eye on you.
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By Prootwadl
January 16, 2008 5:49 PM | Link to this
Filtering means that ISPs risk losing their common carrier status, and that means potential legal issues for Internet Providers.
They really need to think this through a bit more. Seriously.
By Bill
January 16, 2008 9:36 PM | Link to this
Agree Prootwadl - and long time since we’ve talked, good to see you back.
It bothers me, as an old guy who enjoyed the days when the Net was fairly useless and a lot of fun, to see it get so controlled, so commmercial.
All that had to happen - it just the way of the world - but I don’t have to like it.
By Prootwadl
January 17, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this
So many forums, so little time. :-)
Commercialization by itself isn’t an issue until it starts interfering with various noncommercial services.
Thankfully, the services in question are very similar to the internet itself; attempts to control it will simply be viewed as damage, and those services will simply route around the bad areas.
We live in interesting times. :-)