OH DEAR GOD NO

[skull_bearer]

 http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality

Please, please someone please tell me this isn't real. Please. I don't care what it take to prove it wrong, you can have it. I don't want it. Please. Oh God. No. Never. Not going to happen. I don't care if I have to walk into Google with a hundred-pound of explosives strapped to my body. I'd do it. Oh God. Oh God.

The end of the world is indeed coming.

*edit* From My Cold Dead Hands

Wow, I haven't freaked like that since I read the first five pages of Farenheit 451 and ran home to make sure my books were okay. Mind you, this easily a thousand, thousand times worse. Although there is a light on the horizon. If they do this without legal backing, they'll drown in lawsuits and a thousand new, free ISPs will spring up and become overnight trillionaires. If they do try for legal backing, this will be public and the noise will be deafening.
The worst would be if they manage to sneak both through, but if Obama wins and makes good of his promise for net neutrality, that will be very hard. Even then, thousands of pirate ISPs would spring up.

It migth be a hoax, a lot of people believe this, and I hope desperately they're right. If nothing else, it's taught me how highly I value the net: above absolutely anything. I had an hour-long panic attack, literally having to stuff my fist into my mouth to keep from screaming.

Favourite Digg quote: Guys, relax. The internet isn't a dump truck, it's a series of tubes. Everything will be fine.

Comments

[analia-the-1st.livejournal.com]

Oh, FUCK NO! They had better damn well not be doing this.

This had better be some sort of joke.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Please yes. From my cold, dead hands, you pigdog motherfuckers.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Also, if you can post this anywhere you think people might be interested? It's important to get this out.

[t-lyrical.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I'm scared. Excuse me, I think I'm going through your initial reaction right now. I can't believe this, it's ridiculous. I'm trying to think up a witty analogy to reassure myself how the gov can't do it, but I'm just floored.

[skull-bearer.livejournal.com]

Even if it isn't real, it does illustrate a very real possibility. And it frightens the life out of me.
Please repost the link, I think this needs to get out as far as possible.

[avialle.livejournal.com]

I hope that doesn't happen . . . In either case, we're gonna hve FIOS when we move. Yay fiberoptics! X^D

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

WTF???

This SCARES me.