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The Internet's about to get VERY personal

This forecast on the state of the Internet in 2025 -- based on input from thousands of Web experts -- will either thrill you or make you want to hide under your bed.

Utopian or Orwellian – here's the future you won't be able to escape ...

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From Internet to Ubernet by 2025

Forecast: 'Everything – every thing – will be available online with price tags attached'

Published: 2 hours ago
Bob Unruh



In just one decade, the Internet will be a “seamless part of how we live our everyday lives,” according to a new report from the Pew Research Internet Project.

Or it could be the means to a “very dystopian world that is also profoundly inegalitarian.”
The possible scenarios were based on the prognostications of thousands of experts on science and the Web, including Joe Touch, director of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute.
“The Internet will shift from the place we find cat videos to a background capability that will be a seamless part of how we live our everyday lives. We won’t think about ‘going online’ or ‘looking on the Internet’ for something – we’ll just be online, and just look,” he said.
But another perspective comes from John Markoff, senior writer for the Science section of the New York Times.
“What happens the first time you answer the phone and hear from your mother or a close friend, but it’s actually not, and instead, it’s a piece of malware that is designed to social engineer you?” he asked.
“What kind of a world will we have crossed over into? I basically began as an Internet utopian (think John Perry Barlow), but I have since realized that the technical and social forces that have been unleashed by the microprocessor hold out the potential of a very dystopian world that is also profoundly inegalitarian. I often find myself thinking, ‘Who said it would get better?,’” said Markoff.
The report by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie was done in conjunction with Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. It canvassed hundreds of experts about the future “of such things as privacy, cybersecurity, the ‘Internet of Things’ and net neutrality.”
“In this case we asked experts to make their own predictions about the state of digital life by the year 2025,” the authors said.
Striking patterns were found in the responses of nearly 2,600 experts and technology builders, they wrote.
“These experts foresee an ambient information environment where accessing the Internet will be effortless and most people will tap into it so easily it will flow through their lives ‘like electricity.’”
The experts predict “mobile, wearable, and embedded computing will be tied together in the Internet of Things, allowing people and their surroundings to tap into artificial intelligence-enhanced cloud-based information storage and sharing.”
The report cited Dan Lynch, founder of Interop and former director of computing facilities at SRI International, writing “the most useful impact is the ability to connect people.”
“From that, everything flows,” Lynch writes.
Business models for finance, entertainment, publishing and education will be destroyed and rebuilt, and the “physical and social realms” will be mapped, the report said.
“These experts expect existing positive and negative trends to extend and expand in the next decade, revolutionizing most human interaction, especially affecting health, education, work, politics, economics, and entertainment.”
Most experts believe “the results of that connectivity will be primarily positive.”
“However, when asked to describe the good and bad aspects of the future they foresee, many of the experts can also clearly identify areas of concern, some of them extremely threatening. Heightened concerns over interpersonal ethics, surveillance, terror, and crime, may lead societies to question how best to establish security and trust while retaining civil liberties,” the report said.
The responses grouped themselves into several categories, including eight that were “hopeful” and several that were thought to be “concerned.”
“Devices will more and more have their own patterns of communication, their own ‘social networks,’ which they use to share and aggregate information, and undertake automatic control and activation,” said David Clark, a senior research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. “More and more, humans will be in a world in which decisions are being made by an active set of cooperating devices. The Internet (and computer-mediated communication in general) will become more pervasive but less explicit and visible. It will, to some extent, blend into the background of all we do.”
Several strongly hinted at increasing globalism.
“It will be a world more integrated than ever before. We will see more planetary friendships, rivalries, romances, work teams, study groups and collaborations,” wrote Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education.
More information, including details, will be handy, and that will result in a new view on life, said Judith Donath, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
“We’ll have a picture of how someone has spent their time, the depth of their commitment to their hobbies, causes, friends, and family. This will change how we think about people, how we establish trust, how we negotiate change, failure, and success,” she said.
Data layers will be what filters a view of the world, said Daren Brabham, of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. “This will change a lot of social practices, such as dating, job interviewing and professional networking, and gaming, as well as policing and espionage.”
More uprisings, too, will develop because more people will be aware of what others have regarding health care, water, education, food and human rights, said Nicole Ellison of the School of Information at Michigan.
Borders will disappear because they simply won’t matter.
The report said more than 7 billion “humans on this planet will sooner or later be ‘connected’ to each other and fixed destinations, via the Uber (not Inter) net.”
“When every person on this planet can reach, and communicate two-way, with every other person on this planet, the power of nation-states to control every human inside its geographic boundaries may start to diminish,” said David Hughes, an Internet pioneer.
Networks will network with networks, and Hal Varian, chief economist for Google, said there will be universal access to all human knowledge.
But Llewellyn Kriel, CEO of TopEditor International Media Services, noted that access to knowledge and information isn’t always good.
“Everything – every thing – will be available online with price tags attached. Cyber-terrorism will become commonplace. Privacy and confidentiality of any and all personal will become a thing of the past. Online ‘diseases’ – mental, physical, social, addictions (psycho-cyber drugs) – will affect families and communities and spread willy-nilly across borders. The digital divide will grow and worsen beyond the control of nations or global organizations such as the U.N. This will increasingly polarize the planet between haves and have-nots. Global companies will exploit this polarization. Digital criminal networks will become realities of the new frontiers. Terrorism, both by organizations and individuals, will be daily realities. The world will become less and less safe, and only personal skills and insights will protect individuals,” he said.
Big Brother can’t be far behind then.
“Governments will become much more effective in using the Internet as an instrument of political and social control. That is, filters will be increasingly valuable and important, and effective and useful filters will be able to charge for their services. People will be more than happy to trade the free-wheeling aspect common to many Internet sites for more structured and regulated environments,” suggested Paul Babbitt, an associate professor at Southern Arkansas University.
Eventually, it will push some people beyond the boundaries of reality, said Bob Briscoe, chief researcher in networking for British Telecom.
“More people will lose their grounding in the realities of life and work, instead considering those aspects of the world amenable to expression as information as if they were the whole world,” he said. “Given there is strong evidence that people are much more willing to commit petty crimes against people and organizations when they have no face-to-face interaction, the increasing proportion of human interactions mediated by the Internet will continue the trend toward less respect and less integrity in our relations.”
Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said: “I hope there will be greater openness, more democratic participation, less centralized control, and greater freedom. But there is nothing predetermined about that outcome. Economic and political forces in the United States are pulling in the opposite direction. So, we are left with a central challenge: will the Internet of 2025 be – a network of freedom and opportunity or the infrastructure of social control?”


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FCC To Axe-Murder Net Neutrality


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President Obama has begun a week long campaign in Asia to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership. TPP will create international "internet police" that will have the power to censor content and remove websites.
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Are You Ready For A Driver’s License For The Internet?

April 27, 2014

The White House is leading efforts for a new authentication system that would have users prove their identity with a single ID across the Web. And states are starting to pilot the system.

Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of doing business, times are changing. New technologies are preventing such waste and initiating cultural change in the public sector. At the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), that transformation is being realized through the adoption of an online authentication tool the agency is using to ensure that the benefits it issues, like food assistance, are going to the right people.

Such incarnations of online authentication technology are sprouting up in state government agencies around the country, led by a White House vision of a new, central form of identification, what some are calling “a driver’s license for the Internet.”

The DCF reported that in 2013 it saved about $14.7 million through the use of an online authentication tool, with an initial investment of about $1 million and a total contract of just under $3 million. The tool and subscription service was purchased from LexisNexis and operates similarly to the systems used by financial institutions to verify the identity of loan or mortgage applicants. Now when people apply for various programs online, they are prompted with identity verification questions about their previous employers or the names of streets where they lived.

The DCF says the technology is saving so much money because it saves staff the time of verifying identities manually, and even better, there’s been a reduction in cases of identity fraud.

The agency began its move to online services in 2012, said Andrew McClenahan, director of the Office of Public Benefits Integrity at DCF. “It’s changing the way that people are looking at public assistance fraud and how to maintain the integrity of these public benefits systems,” he said. “[It’s] changing the mindset that fraud is no longer considered a cost of doing business. These modernizations, data analysis and predictive modeling and now this customer authentication tool that works with identity verification, these are all realities that we as a state and other states are having to face, and I think it’s here to stay.”

The move away from authenticating people in person began two years ago when the state started centralizing its physical offices to one per county. That move, McClenahan said, prompted more online usage, but also introduced a new problem: The state had no reliable way of verifying identity online and the result was a lot of waste – wasted time and wasted benefits issued to illegitimate applicants. So the agency began piloting the system in Orlando, and in August 2013, the system was spread throughout the state.

Are You Ready For A Driver’s License For The Internet? [continued]
Are You Ready for a Driver’s License for the Internet?

The White House is leading efforts for a new authentication system that would have users prove their identity with a single ID across the Web. And states are starting to pilot the system.

by Colin Wood / April 25, 2014 10

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A customer waits to have his driver's license photo taken. The White House has a vision for a new, central form of identification some are calling a "driver's license for the Internet." Flickr/Oregon DOT

Government is raising its expectations. While it hasn’t been uncommon in the past for governments to consider money wasted by fraud, mismanagement or inefficiency as an expense of doing business, times are changing. New technologies are preventing such waste and initiating cultural change in the public sector. At the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), that transformation is being realized through the adoption of an online authentication tool the agency is using to ensure that the benefits it issues, like food assistance, are going to the right people.

Such incarnations of online authentication technology are sprouting up in state government agencies around the country, led by a White House vision of a new, central form of identification, what some are calling “a driver’s license for the Internet.”

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The DCF reported that in 2013 it saved about $14.7 million through the use of an online authentication tool, with an initial investment of about $1 million and a total contract of just under $3 million. The tool and subscription service was purchased from LexisNexis and operates similarly to the systems used by financial institutions to verify the identity of loan or mortgage applicants. Now when people apply for various programs online, they are prompted with identity verification questions about their previous employers or the names of streets where they lived.

The DCF says the technology is saving so much money because it saves staff the time of verifying identities manually, and even better, there’s been a reduction in cases of identity fraud.

The agency began its move to online services in 2012, said Andrew McClenahan, director of the Office of Public Benefits Integrity at DCF. “It’s changing the way that people are looking at public assistance fraud and how to maintain the integrity of these public benefits systems," he said. "[It’s] changing the mindset that fraud is no longer considered a cost of doing business. These modernizations, data analysis and predictive modeling and now this customer authentication tool that works with identity verification, these are all realities that we as a state and other states are having to face, and I think it’s here to stay.”

The move away from authenticating people in person began two years ago when the state started centralizing its physical offices to one per county. That move, McClenahan said, prompted more online usage, but also introduced a new problem: The state had no reliable way of verifying identity online and the result was a lot of waste – wasted time and wasted benefits issued to illegitimate applicants. So the agency began piloting the system in Orlando, and in August 2013, the system was spread throughout the state.

It was important to get away from the old model, McClenahan said, and it’s easy to see why. Fraud and abuse of government services in general has been common for years, and especially so in Florida. In 2007, federal officials randomly visited 1,600 businesses in Miami that had billed for “durable medical equipment” and found that 481 of those businesses didn’t even exist, accounting for $237 million of fraud in just one year.

In 2012, the attorney general announced that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force had arrested more than 100 people, including doctors, nurses and other health professionals, accounting for more than $452 million in fraud across seven cities.

These instances of fraud, enabled for decades by a lack of government oversight or technological wherewithal, has cost taxpayers untold sums. In 2010, the Government Accountability Office released a report in which it identified $48 billion in “improper payments” for the previous year.

But, of course, fraud doesn’t only happen in Florida. In 2011, the White House started looking at the issue differently when it released the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The program outlines a framework for an online identity verification system that would attempt to reduce fraud, while creating a convenient way, federal officials say, for Internet users to prove their identity, without the need to remember passwords. The New York Times called it “a driver’s license for the Internet.” Even better, the White House reported that such a system would improve the Web economy by bolstering public confidence in security and authentication of online businesses and services.

In fall 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency overseeing the program, awarded $1.3 million and $1.1 million in pilot funding to Michigan and Pennsylvania, respectively. Rather than develop entirely new systems or even some form of comprehensive Internetwide identification system, the implementations in each state look at how existing systems can be used to simplify authentication across departments. These pilots are just the beginning – NIST is awarding pilot funding to 10 additional organizations, which will be announced in August.

Pennsylvania is developing an implementation that would allow users to operate a single identity across state departments, rather than requiring users to manage usernames and passwords for each department, which is the case today. In a pilot scheduled to run from this spring through September, Deloitte will bridge various departments and agencies, each of which would require varying levels of authentication on behalf of the user, according to GCN. For example, if a user only wants a fishing license, he could simply authenticate his identity at a low level, but if he later wanted to use that same online ID for welfare benefits, he would need to raise the authentication level by providing more information in order to access those services. But he would only need one set of credentials to access any state service.

In a pilot scheduled to run May to September, Michigan will use the funding to establish an online authentication system for residents who use its MI Bridges portal to access services like food and cash assistance programs, the same kinds of services for which Florida developed its authentication system.

Identity verification for MI Bridge is done manually today using several different types of identity proofing to verify each applicant. For that reason, there's little fraud in that program, according to an agency spokesperson. However, reducing the work needed to verify the identity of an online user could save the agency money.

Michigan's project is expected to operate similarly to the system that was launched in Florida’s DCF, asking the user various questions similar to what might be seen during an online application for a mortgage or loan.

The success of the NSTIC pilots will be determined by analysis conducted by nonprofit RTI International, funded with $300,000 from NIST. The organization will compare the efficacy of the new system compared to the old manual processes of identity verification. If the pilots are successful, they could end up being the first step toward a single set of standardized credentials that Internet users provide to prove who they are.

Identify Verification for the Web
A single ID that can be used across the entire Internet is an idea that has been talked about for a long time, and since the 1980s, the technology world has known that the password model is inadequate, said technology analyst Rob Enderle. A single set of credentials that could be used to verify identity would be far superior to what's used today, he said, and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace would lead the Internet toward that goal.

“Given that we don’t have that on the Web and there is a substantial amount of fraud and identity theft going to the core of it, having a validatable ID is, you would think, a very high priority,” Enderle said. “It should be a higher priority than it is.”

This isn’t just a good idea, Enderle said, it’s a necessity. “If you can’t create a method to ensure a person is who they say they are, then you really can’t secure bank accounts, identities, anything that’s done on the Web,” he said. “Moving to something else would seem to be decades overdue.”

Though the White House created the program to begin research around such a system, the government is generally not good at developing these kinds of technologies or working within a fast timeframe, Enderle said – a successful technology like this needs to come from the private sector.

“It has to be driven by the market. Remember, we were supposed to be on the metric standard decades ago and we aren’t,” he said. “There have to be some penalties involved for not doing it. I think after a couple major breaches where the liability is passed to the organization that didn’t properly assure the identities of the people that were accessing it, that motivation will probably drop into place.”

The technology for this is here, Gartner analyst Avivah Litan said, it’s just a matter of getting the market properly aligned. “People have been talking about it for years,” Litan said. “The main issue is you have to get identity providers standing behind it and backing up the identities, and you have to solve the business model. In other words, if they get the identity wrong, who’s liable? It’s a great concept, but it hasn’t taken place because no one’s willing to be the identity provider or issue the identity. It’s not a technology issue, it’s a business issue.”

Proposed legislation in the United Kingdom shows that the market is demanding better authentication online, not just to curtail fraud, but to restrict access to certain content. The proposed law would require that websites hosting adult content take better measures of authenticating age than just using the honor system. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act is the existing legislation that requires U.S. websites hosting adult content to require the user to enter an adult’s age before proceeding, a standard that websites in other countries also have adopted. But the problem is that it simply doesn’t keep young users out. A quick lie is all that’s needed to proceed. The thinking behind the proposed legislation is that the rules that apply offline should also apply online.

Privacy Concerns
Not everyone thinks a driver’s license for the Internet is a great idea. Lee Tien, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is skeptical whether the government’s main motivation with such a program would even be fraud prevention – and not tracking.

“We think it’s a terrible idea,” Tien said. “The main substantive issue is that much of what we do on the Internet is plain old speech: writing comments, posting on blogs or whatever. And one of the things about speech in the United States, especially under the First Amendment of the Constitution, is that you have a right to speak anonymously. The EFF has long believed that it’s really important to preserve and protect that right to speak anonymously on the Internet. Any mandatory type of ID online runs really directly counter to that.”

Even a voluntary online ID could be problematic, Tien said. If the ID became popular, it could still become a de facto requirement that people would need to access a variety of services, and the result, again, would be loss of privacy and anonymity. The thing that’s unclear about such a solution, he said, is how this form of authentication would prevent various types of fraud in a way that others cannot. If there is a difference, Tien said he doesn’t know what it is.

“One of the great things about modern cryptography is that if it’s implemented well, you can have highly secure transactions, and you can have cryptographic proof for verification as to whether or not a person is or isn’t who they represent themselves to be in a mathematically secure manner,” he said. “A lot of times the issue is not fraud. The issue for government is that they want to track, regardless of fraud.”
Colin Wood | Staff Writer

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Colin has been writing for Government Technology since 2010. He lives in Seattle with his wife and their dog. He can be reached at cwood@govtech.com.



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No More Net Neutrality? - #NewWorldNextWeek


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Welcome to http://NewWorldNextWeek.com -- the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

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Free Speech in Danger?


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Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, appears intent on undermining free speech.

His Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014, or S. 2219, would empower the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, or NTIA, to keep tabs on any Internet, radio and television content which allegedly advocates or encourages violent acts and so-called "hate crimes."

A number of critics, including the Boston Herald's editorial board, see the bill as a danger to free speech.

The House companion bill is H.R. 3878. The chief sponsor of the House Version is Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat. He believes the bill will target "hateful activity on the Internet that occurs outside of the zone of First Amendment protection," whatever that means.

According to the Library of Congress, on April 8th, S.2219 was referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, of which Markey is a member. As of April 27th it had zero co-sponsors.

H.R. 3878 was introduced back in mid-January and now has 29 co-sponsors. It was referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

Markey's official press release announcing this legislation, dated April 16th, noted: "The Hate Crime Reporting Act of 2014 would create an updated comprehensive report examining the role of the Internet and other telecommunications in encouraging hate crimes based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or sexual orientation and create recommendations to address such crimes."

The press release also noted that Markey has been pursuing this matter for decades. He stated: "Over 20 years have passed since I first directed the NTIA to review the role that telecommunications play in encouraging hate crimes. My legislation would require the agency to update this critical report for the 21st century."

The Boston Herald labeled the initiative a "frankly chilling proposition" and warned that this legislation will encourage the federal NTIA to "begin scouring the Internet, TV and radio for speech it finds threatening."

Quoting parts of the legislation, the Herald's editorial board noted: "The spookily-named National Telecommunications and Information Administration . . . would be required to submit a report to Congress on the use of telecommunications 'to advocate and encourage violent acts and the commission of crimes of hate.'"

Therefore, the NTIA would use its own judgment to determine what qualifies as forbidden speech. The NTIA would then recommend what the legislation calls "appropriate and necessary" steps for Congress to take, in order to address a perceived telecommunications abuse.

Furthermore, civil liberties attorney Harvey A. Silvergate was quoted as saying: "This proposed legislation is worse than merely silly. It is dangerous. It is not up to Sen. Markey, nor to the federal government, to define for a free people what [kind of] speech is . . . acceptable."

Markey's bill is surfacing not long after "Duck Dynasty" star Phil Robertson won a free-speech battle regarding his candid religious remarks against homosexuality. Those remarks had been labeled "hate speech" by many on the political left.

But from Markey's viewpoint, this legislation is more about the gunman who opened fire in a Jewish Holocaust Museum in Kansas City earlier this month.

Markey remarked: "We have recently seen in Kansas the deadly destruction and loss of life that hate speech can fuel in the United States."

However, the late author George Orwell likely framed the matter best when he said, "Freedom of speech is the freedom to tell people what they don't want to hear." And plenty of state and federal laws are already on the books to punish people if ideas evolve into tangible crimes.

So, would the best "hate crimes" legislation be no legislation? Perhaps so.

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FCC Begins Total Take Over Of The Internet
Published on May 7, 2014

Alex Jones discusses FCC's push to take over the Internet and put in place political correctness commissars and whether or not the age of Internet freedom is at an end.

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Your internet is about to get a lot slower.
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We need to save the internet.
Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon want to control what we can and cannot do online -- and they’re about to get their wish.

Their lobbyists and lawyers have taken over the FCC -- the agency meant to keep them in check. Now, the former lobbyist running the FCC is about to announce new rules that will kill Net Neutrality -- the rule that stops Comcast, AT&T, or Verizon from deciding which sites you’re allowed to visit.

There are two specific subcommittees in Congress that could stop this decision before its officially proposed on May 15th, or even overturn it.


Sign the petition to the two congressional subcommittees: Stop the FCC and save the internet.

The proposed FCC rules would change the internet from what we know now to something more like corporate television -- a place where faster internet would be reserved for the giant corporations willing to pay to cut the line.

Right now, the internet works like this: both people and websites pay money to their local (often monopolistic) Internet Service Provider (ISP) like Comcast or Verizon. In return, they’re hooked up to the internet. Information flowing through the internet is all treated equally. Under these new rules, the ISPs could hold us hostage. Verizon could refuse to let us see Youtube unless Google hands them wheelbarrows full of cash. People researching medications might not be able to find the studies showing serious side effects if Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKlein and others pay big bucks to get their sites to show up fastest. Most alarmingly, the legal basis of these rules could allow ISPs to censor any site they didn’t like.

Groups like SumOfUs only exist because of the open internet of today. Under these new rules, new innovations would find it much harder to take off, because their superior design would be behind an intentionally broken and slow connection. Sites like Wikipedia could disappear from public view or start plastering themselves in ads to pony up the cash needed to pay Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon for the privilege of allowing us to access them.

The head of the FCC is a former lobbyist and telecommunications executive, and he’s hired Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T corporate flacks into the FCC specifically to draft rules for destroying the internet. No wonder they love his proposal.


This is an all-hands on deck moment.

Sign the petition to the House and Senate committees overseeing the FCC. We can’t let Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T get away with destroying the internet.

Thanks for all that you do,
Sahar, Paul, Hanna, and the Rest Of Us

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More information:
Former Comcast and Verizon Attorneys Now Manage the FCC and Are About to Kill the Internet Lee Fang, Vice News, April 25, 2014
Wake Up, Internet -- Time to Save Yourself. Craig Aaron, Huffington Post, April 24, 2014



http://action.sumofus.org/a/save-internet-fcc/?sub=mtl

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Net Neutrality Solution is to Give Crony-Filled FCC Authority Over the Internet?

Activist Post

Below is a good video explaining net neutrality. It clearly describes the brief history of net neutrality, the danger of monopoly players controlling regulators and eliminating competition, and it even offers the solution.

The proposed solution is to reclassify Internet Service Providers (ISPs) as "Common Carriers" so that the FCC can regulate them which the FCC currently has no legal authority to do.

Yet the video readily admits that the cable companies own and run the FCC, so how is the solution is to give a crony-filled agency more power?



If the FCC is in the pocket of the monopoly men, why would you give them more power?

If we've learned anything with a free and open Internet, it's that legacy businesses lose on a level playing field of competition and everyone else wins. This little "truth" blog of ours gets more traffic and has more genuine Facebook fans than a good many dinosaur publishers -- who also want a pay-to-play system.

The FCC (government) proposal to "allow" fast lanes is a red herring designed to scare the public into giving them more power. They literally created a phony problem that doesn't yet exist for Internet users, activists get lathered in anger in response and demand a solution. Classic problem-reaction-solution manipulation.

We'd better be damn careful about the solutions what we advocate for.

Here's a better solution: Abolish the FCC and eliminate all barriers to entry for new Internet Service Providers. This would prevent monopoly men from having a strongman in the FCC, while allowing true competition to flourish.

http://www.activistpost.com/2014/05/...s-to-give.html

Anonymous: Operation Net Storm

by: WangyWagnols [7 videos »]


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http://www.veoh.com/watch/v71712309n5Q8sKte