OH DEAR GOD NO
Jun. 6th, 2008 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
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.
