I think it's kind of a slippery slope deal. AOL tried this (rather successfully for a while) where you paid for "net access" which only allowed you to access AOL-controlled resources. There was a lot of smoke and mirrors involved to try to keep people from finding out there was a bigger net out there.
If some of the larger media corporations got together and mutually excluded access to each others' resources, we could see a very big impact on the effective size of the net we can reach. I agree that it is not currently much of a problem, at least not in our country. but if it does become a problem, it will become such a large problem so fast, that it's important that we make very sure it never happens. -wes On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Ted Kubaska <[email protected]>wrote: > You know I did some reading about this today, and it seems to be tied > up with "net neutrality" which right now seems to me to be a solution > looking for a problem, rather than a problem. I guess, I mean, not a > big deal ... more mole hill than mountain. > > But I'm willing to be educated if I got this wrong. > -ted > On May 9, 2009, at 9:01 PM, Russell Senior wrote: > > >>>>>> "Ted" == Ted Kubaska <[email protected]> writes: > > > > Ted> Has anyone had any dealing with "Freedom to Connect"? > > Ted> http://freedom-to-connect.net/ > > > > Yes, I went to it this year, back at the end of March. > > > > Ted> Specifically the "Homes with Tails" paper by Derek Slater ... and > > Ted> the "glass roots" movement. > > > > Ted> Seems like good stuff but looking for some qualitative > > Ted> comments. Thanks. > > > > I haven't actually read that paper, but I saw it, know generally what > > it suggests, and I saw Derek Slater speak at F2C this year. > > > > > > -- > > Russell Senior, Secretary > > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
