you know how you already pay for internet (DSL, dialup, whathaveyou)? what if every site you visited was begging for donations so that they could pay up to AT+T, Comcast, and AOL, to use the same internet that you're already paying for? it's not far fetched. remember how AT+T got broken up, so that people could get fair phone service? neither do i, i wasn't born yet. but my grandma does. remember how SBC just became AT+T all over again? This is what the CEO of then-SBC has to say:
How concerned are you about Internet upstarts like Google, MSN, Vonage, and others?
How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that because we have spent this capital and we have to have a return on it. So there's going to have to be some mechanism for these people who use these pipes to pay for the portion they're using. Why should they be allowed to use my pipes?
click the link. seriously. congress is a push over for big business. unless we push harder.
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