2012: End of the Internet

[Truth4Youth]

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t89WwcsOj9U

Update: Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.

Dylan Pattyn *, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.

What can we do?The reason why we're releasing this information is because we believe we can stop it. More awareness means more mainstream media shedding light on it, more political interest and more pressure on the ISP's to keep the Internet an open free space. We started this social network as a platform for Internet activism where we can join forces, share ideas and organize any form of protest that may have an impact. If we want to make a difference in this, we have to join together and stand united as one powerful voice against it.

[yathrib]

There is so much else that will probably kill us off or reduce us to abject poverty and tyranny by 2012 that this is very low on *my* list, even though it would otherwise be pretty disturbing

[§ê¢rꆧ]

I was thinking of posting this too, but when I looked at the site it originated from I thought the source was a little wonky. But maybe these kids can see the fire on the horizon better than others, maybe there really is something to their 'undisclosed sources' making these claims. This is particularly chilling.

Update: Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.

[Avalon]

Is the choice of 2012 a conscious effort to spook and distract the Netizens who already have their heads full of the date?

[Truth4Youth]

I was thinking of posting this too, but when I looked at the site it originated from I thought the source was a little wonky.

Well, it was linked to on Uri Dowbenko's Conspiracy Planet so it could be bullshit.

In any case the year may be off, but the basic premise is very real from my understanding.

[Penguin]

I think in that case we might see kind of amateur radio internet. At least in the freer parts..Open source radio platfrom software is freely available - allowing you to run any kind of digital or analog radio station with a cheap (100$ or so) radio card and any pc. It can be anything from digital or analog radio to WiFi or Wimax or digital tv etc.

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/

"Welcome to GNU Radio! ¶
Introduction ¶

GNU Radio is a free software development toolkit that provides the signal processing runtime and processing blocks to implement software radios using readily-available, low-cost external RF hardware and commodity processors. It is widely used in hobbyist, academic and commercial environments to support wireless communications research as well as to implement real-world radio systems.

GNU Radio applications are primarily written using the Python programming language, while the supplied, performance-critical signal processing path is implemented in C++ using processor floating point extensions where available. Thus, the developer is able to implement real-time, high-throughput radio systems in a simple-to-use, rapid-application-development environment.

While not primarily a simulation tool, GNU Radio does support development of signal processing algorithms using pre-recorded or generated data, avoiding the need for actual RF hardware. "

What is GNU Radio?

GNU Radio is a collection of software that when combined with minimal hardware, allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software. What this means is that the digital modulation schemes used in today's high performance wireless devices are now software problems. "

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Yeah, I could've started a new thread, but this thread has such a thrilling title. This news story (below) seemed related to the subject matter.

Project to rebuild Internet gets $12M, bandwidth

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer July 30, 2008

NEW YORK - A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.

Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.

On behalf of the government, BBN Technologies Inc. is overseeing the planning and design of the Global Environment for Network Innovations, or GENI, a network on which researchers will be able to test new ideas without damaging the current Internet.

The $12 million in initial grants from the National Science Foundation will go to developing prototypes for the GENI network.

To test these prototypes, the Internet2 organization is contributing 10 gigabits per second of dedicated bandwidth, so researchers won't have to worry about normal Internet traffic interfering with their experiments. National LambdaRail is offering another 30 gigabits per second of capacity, though it won't be dedicated to GENI at all times.

The bandwidth is thousands of times faster than standard home broadband connections — enough to run 30 high-quality movies into your home simultaneously.

Craig Partridge, chief scientist at BBN Technologies, said the commitments amounted to an important endorsement of GENI by two organizations that run ultra-high-speed networks for universities and other researchers to conduct data-intensive projects.

Construction on GENI could start in about five years and cost $350 million. Congress still has to approve those funds.

[vigilant]

That is really gonna piss me off if it happens, but I don't doubt that it will when I think about it, especially after reading the article stating that the government thinks we need a "clean slate". And the corporate machine always finds a way to sequester anything we get that is worth anything.

This is the first time in the history of the world that practically anybody can instantly access information on any topic they desire that is "unfiltered" by corporate and government propaganda. There is some propaganda on the internet, but there is also plenty that isn't. That is what is great about it. The reader can make up their own mind without a TV commentator "telling them how to think about the information".

We can't have nothing...

[Wombaticus Rex]

I think this will be a pain in the ass, but also a kick in the ass to rebuild a decentralized, wireless and people-powered internet, and leave the corporations to enjoy their high-bandwidth stolen property and slave consumer subscriber base.

[bubblefunk]

Twelve MILLION? They'll spend that much on lunches!

[8bitagent]

If this happens, I will be more than happy to see massive coordinated hacking, online vandalism, and widespread internet chaos. Just totally cripple the corporate control networks.

When we hear about these proposals to implement RFID chips, national id cards, global grids, biodiversity compact cities, ect..its tempting to call it patriot radio/Alex Jones fearmongering. Until we read that oh hey look, no it really is coming into being.

I've seen specials on how folks have tried bringing net access to some of the most remote, poor developing areas of the globe...especially for children. So it's taken about 15 years after the "world wide web" first got popular and introduced for some people to finally have a chance to see it. One has to wonder what kind of William Gibson future of connected individuals/global community we will come to see in the coming years. Wearable computers already wired to the net?

[vigilant]

8bitagent wrote:
Until we read that oh hey look, no it really is coming into being.


I have seen more "supposed tin foil hat" stuff come true in the last ten years than I ever dreamed possible...

[Brighid_Moon]

Wearable computers already wired to the net?

This? Or this?



[Picture chosen for the ladies ]

[Joe Hillshoist]

I think this will be a pain in the ass, but also a kick in the ass to rebuild a decentralized, wireless and people-powered internet, and leave the corporations to enjoy their high-bandwidth stolen property and slave consumer subscriber base.

Thought it was worth repeating.

[mentalgongfu2]

a lot of commerce is done online these day, banking and book sales and wedding gift registries - if a plan is in the works to neutralize the Internet, as it were, I expect it would be designed not to jeopardize such ventures.