The End of the Internet

This is a VERY disturbing article brought to my attention by sunfell. I think it is really very chilling.

America's big phone and cable companies want to start charging exorbitant user fees for the supposedly-free internet.

The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.

Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency.

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So long to the internet being the great equalizer.