Loosing the Freedom of the Internet

[tacoben]

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Many people have differing views with regard to P2P file sharing but it is used by millions across the world and mostly just for pure private enjoyment rather than profit.

However it seems the industry is fighting back hard and demanding laws that will pick on the individual. Using information connected to your IP to force your provider to act.

My worry with this is we will all loose a lot of freedom not only for the illegal download but altogether the laws will give control away to the big industries and make the internet more of a big brother with a stick.

I myself will be thinking of ways to fight back the media companies and governments as once you give up a freedom you will never get it back.

The boys at TVC know this well and that is why with every step, they make sure they are within the law.

[TVC_H4U]

Yeh, What ever happened to Privacy.

The big thing Ive seen a lot recently is Net Neutrality, Media companies dont want this and want to force ISPs to only allow us to use a certain amount of approved websites. The end of internet innovation, killing the small guys.

[TVC_Admin]

We've seen it all before. The internet evolved from a closed group, and open (and often sordid) commercialism drove it into our homes. It is often said that without pornography, the internet would still be at the bulletin board stage. Whether that's true or not, the expansion of the net has caught those who seek to exert their control over our lives by surprise.

To me, the biggest threat to net neutrality springs equally from the providers as much as it springs from government intervention. In many respects, more people's lives are influenced daily by Google than by the Chinese political insularity or Echelon.

In every possible way, Google collect information on us, and as they have demonstrated, they do not put up much of a fight to keep it private. Those sites listed in your Google search aren't necessarily ordered by popularity, but by how much they are paid to put that name at the top of the list. That free GMail account is a bargain, until one wonders what they do with all the email addresses they harvest.

It's not a rant, Google is a great service, just that I think people need to look beyond just the governments of the world to see that net neutrality has already been compromised for commercial gain.

[breadfan]

I stopped using Chrome once I saw the privacy policy from Google. That nice Maile Ohye tells it how it is...

Here is the internet in 2012...

http://tinyurl.com/685hkn

[TVC_H4U]

^That image always makes me laugh.
I promise if it ever comes to that, I will have to start the OpenISP, get every website.
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I don't have a problem with google, I used the search from launch. They do log a lot of data but it is illegal to misuse that data (unless stated otherwise), their slogan is something like "do no evil". The data they capture is useful, I started a Blog for a client on Blogspot and it was able to automatacly feed email addresses from my clients Gmail.. It saved me a lot of time!

Im on chome now (accident) i use firefox due to extensions. I use gmail, search, google apps, google analystics, google webmasters, google maps. So google knows everything about me.

Without all this logging google spell check(which i use a lot) would be awful, so would Google Suggest.

[tacoben]

Google has similar hold on the internet as Microsoft had on computer operating systems.

I do use a lot knowing full well the list is not completely accurate and that all the information I access is recorded. At the moment I would say the convenience far out ways the loss of freedom.

Wikipedia is also one to watch. It has yet to answer all the questions and though it is peer reviewed I have this feeling that once people rely on the information as truth we are in trouble. There is nothing to stop certain information to be changed permanently and used to change public opinion.

Maybe that is just my Orwellian paranoia

My main concern at the moment is still the IP providers dictating terms of conditions where you either comply or loose a connection. This is where legislation is going.