Jun 02, 2008 04:32PM GMT
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Technology - General Computers & Electronics
Will the internet end in 2012?
Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for separate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.
Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.
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Answered No. Even if this is true, there are many IT experts who will build up an "alternative" of the internet.
Maybe it will end, as we know it. But there will always be an internet, just like there will always be a galaxy and a universe.! But there are several things that might happen that year, even in technology. The idea spoken in the video is preposterious. -
Answered No. Even if this is true, there are many IT experts who will build up an "alternative" of the internet.
I'm laughing at this one... I hear too many of this stuff, like the world is ending, and stuff... If the internet was going to die, it will be dead already, and if the world was going to end, it might have ended already.
Many IT experts can make the internet still alive. -
Answered No. Even if this is true, there are many IT experts who will build up an "alternative" of the internet.
The internet is already considered a failed concept for many businesses and didnt die out then, net neutrality isnt a good thing, but honestly i cant see it happened, maybe its just wishful thinking, but hell we've had limits on everything else, drinking, smoking, driving, and have they died out, hell no. -
Answered Undecided. Even if it's only 10% true: this is a big deal!!
This has been rumored for a couple of years, and I don't entirely disagree with it. Here's why:
In my career as a web developer, I have developed many adult websites of various legal niches. Children, unfortunately, are able to access anything and everything under the sun through the internet. "If you are 18 or older, you may enter, if you are not 18 or older, you must leave", means nothing. If they want into that site, they click "enter" regardless of if they can legally access the content inside or not. There is no accountability, and most people know it. As long as the website meets all legal compliance, the owner's hands are clean. In my daily routine of checking site stats alone, you would not believe the number of hits some of the adult sites get from such and such public school ISP. I have made it a point (it's been an exhaustive task) to locate all school related ISPs in the United States, and day by day, I block their IP at the server level. But, children, regardless of security measures, are able to bypass school, server, and parental filters by surfing behind a proxy.
Content desensitizes human beings, and I am on board with governance of the internet. It needs to be done, and eventually, it will happen.
Day by day, more people are living their lives and socializing online. This is an entire world of information, as well as dangers. People carelessly enter their social security number and credit card information, as well as full names and addresses a...This has been rumored for a couple of years, and I don't entirely disagree with it. Here's why:
In my career as a web developer, I have developed many adult websites of various legal niches. Children, unfortunately, are able to access anything and everything under the sun through the internet. "If you are 18 or older, you may enter, if you are not 18 or older, you must leave", means nothing. If they want into that site, they click "enter" regardless of if they can legally access the content inside or not. There is no accountability, and most people know it. As long as the website meets all legal compliance, the owner's hands are clean. In my daily routine of checking site stats alone, you would not believe the number of hits some of the adult sites get from such and such public school ISP. I have made it a point (it's been an exhaustive task) to locate all school related ISPs in the United States, and day by day, I block their IP at the server level. But, children, regardless of security measures, are able to bypass school, server, and parental filters by surfing behind a proxy.
Content desensitizes human beings, and I am on board with governance of the internet. It needs to be done, and eventually, it will happen.
Day by day, more people are living their lives and socializing online. This is an entire world of information, as well as dangers. People carelessly enter their social security number and credit card information, as well as full names and addresses anywhere and everywhere they can. What most people fail to consider is: You don't need to have a morality certificate in order to register a domain. You may trust the company presented on a website, but they're not exactly the ones coming into direct contact with your personal and sensitive information.
The internet is a world within the world, and it does need policing of some sort, and at this point in time, it has to start with the providers.
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Hey Tweetz,
I agree the internet needs guidelines and policies to protect children and our identities. However, I disagree that we should attempt to protect ourselves at the cost of all freedom. I think the worst part of this initiative is that it creates an upper eschelon of sites that control everything we see or hear. I don't like it when countries control the media their citizens can access, so I certainly can't support an unseen global authority controlling the internet and what content can be accessed! Wouldn't you agree that there are solutions for the internet's many security problems that don't involve limiting our access to all but the largest and richest companies?
It's very interesting and admirable that you have worked to block school ISPs from accessing your adult sites, though. Kudos for making that a priority on your side instead of relying on the client side to handle it appropriately when many people don't understand how the internet works! -
Answered No. Even if this is true, there are many IT experts who will build up an "alternative" of the internet.
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Answered Undecided. Even if it's only 10% true: this is a big deal!!
I think it's sort of scary. If that is true imagine.... You wouldn't have as much freedom as you do now. Personally, I'm not old enough to watch porn nor do I have the desire but you would have to pay to even get onto that site. Then pay again to view. It could possibly be safer for children too. Parents could easily monitor what sites their children are viewing. -
Answered Yes. The Nerd-Rage and outrage of billions of people who wake up without all access internet will cause a riot.
THIS IS CRAZY!!! Do they not realize that they will piss of the entire world??? We already pay our server, we don't need to pay a site. No one will go online except for like Bill Gates. :( I'm rly pissed about this! I pray that this is a scam! and if it isn't - watch for the protests!! -
Answered Undecided. Even if it's only 10% true: this is a big deal!!
I'm not sure but they have been able to change the constitution by telling everyone that it's to protect us from terrorist and take our rights away while everyone looks the other way like a bunch of sheep, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they came up with something like this to take away free speech after all that would be baaaahh Bad.