Death of Free Internet is Imminent..Canada Will Become Test Case

In the last 15 years or so, as a society we have had access to more information than ever before in modern history because of the Internet. There are approximately 1 billion Internet users in the world B and any one of these users can theoretically communicate in real time with any other on the planet. The Internet has been the greatest technological achievement of the 20th century by far, and has been recognized as such by the global community.


The free transfer of information, uncensored, unlimited and untainted, still seems to be a dream when you think about it. Whatever field that is mentioned- education, commerce, government, news, entertainment, politics and countless other areas- have been radically affected by the introduction of the Internet. And mostly, it's good news, except when poor judgements are made and people are taken advantage of. Scrutiny and oversight are needed, especially where children are involved.


However, when there are potential profits open to a corporation, the needs of society don't count. Take the recent case in Canada with the behemoths, Telus and Rogers rolling out a charge for text messaging without any warning to the public. It was an arrogant and risky move for the telecommunications giants because it backfired. People actually used Internet technology to deliver a loud and clear message to these companies and that was to scrap the extra charge. The people used the power of the Internet against the big boys and the little guys won.




However, the issue of text messaging is just a tiny blip on the radar screens of Telus and another company, Bell Canada, the two largest Internet Service Providers (ISP'S) in Canada. Our country is being used as a test case to drastically change the delivery of Internet service forever. The change will be so radical that it has the potential to send us back to the horse and buggy days of information sharing and access.



In the upcoming weeks watch for a report in Time Magazine that will attempt to smooth over the rough edges of a diabolical plot by Bell Canada and Telus, to begin charging per site fees on most Internet sites. The plan is to convert the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and then pay to visit sites beyond a cutoff point.



From my browsing (on the currently free Internet) I have discovered that the 'demise' of the free Internet is slated for 2010 in Canada, and two years later around the world. Canada is seen a good choice to implement such shameful and sinister changes, since Canadians are viewed as being laissez fair, politically uninformed and an easy target. The corporate marauders will iron out the wrinkles in Canada and then spring the new, castrated version of the Internet on the rest of the world, probably with little fanfare, except for some dire warnings about the 'evil' of the Internet (free) and the CEO's spouting about 'safety and security'. These buzzwords usually work pretty well.



What will the Internet look like in Canada in 2010? I suspect that the ISP's will provide a "package" program as companies like Cogeco currently do. Customers will pay for a series of websites as they do now for their television stations. Television stations will be available on-line as part of these packages, which will make the networks happy since they have lost much of the younger market which are surfing and chatting on their computers in the evening. However, as is the case with cable television now, if you choose something that is not part of the package, you know what happens. You pay extra.



And this is where the Internet (free) as we know it will suffer almost immediate, economic strangulation. Thousands and thousands of Internet sites will not be part of the package so users will have to pay extra to visit those sites! In just an hour or two it is possible to easily visit 20-30 sites or more while looking for information. Just imagine how high these costs will be.



At present, the world condemns China because that country restricts certain websites. "They are undemocratic; they are removing people's freedom; they don't respect individual rights; they are censoring information,” are some of the comments we hear. But what Bell Canada and Telus have planned for Canadians is much worse than that. They are planning the death of the Internet (free) as we know it, and I expect they'll be hardly a whimper from Canadians. It's all part of the corporate plan for a New World Order and virtually a masterstroke that will lead to the creation of billions and billions of dollars of corporate profit at the expense of the working and middle classes.



There are so many other implications as a result of these changes, far too many to elaborate on here. Be aware that we will all lose our privacy because all websites will be tracked as part of the billing procedure, and we will be literally cut off from 90% of the information that we can access today. The little guys on the Net will fall likes flies; Bloggers and small website operators will die a quick death because people will not pay to go to their sites and read their pages.



Ironically, the only medium that can save us is the one we are trying to save- the Internet (free). This article will be posted on my Blog, www.realitycheck.typepad.com and I encourage people and groups to learn more about this issue. Canadians can keep the Internet free just as they kept text messaging free. Don't wait for the federal politicians. They will do nothing to help us.



I would welcome a letter to the editor of the Standard Freeholder from a spokesperson from Bell Canada or Telus telling me that I am absolutely wrong in what I have written, and that no such changes to the Internet are being planned, and that access to Internet sites will remain FREE in the years to come. In the meantime, I encourage all of you to write to the media, ask questions, phone the radio station, phone a friend, or think of something else to prevent what appears to me to be inevitable.



Maintaining Internet (free) access is the only way we have a chance at combatting the global corporate takeover, the North American Union, and a long list of other deadly deeds that the elite in society have planned for us. Yesterday was too late in trying to protect our rights and freedoms. We must now redouble our efforts in order to give our children and grandchildren a fighting chance in the future.


author's website: http://realitycheck.typepad.com/

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9627

I don't know if this is true of not, but it sounds like something they would do.

Lead balloon thinking by those idiots.

People forget how much business is now being conducted

Those guys are dolts.

Per-site browsing would be almost impossible to measure, much less charge for. Just loading an average DU thread involves prodding a few dozen servers. There's no way any ISP that pulled this off could survive doing so if there was even one other anywhere nearby that could do otherwise.

I'll believe a lot of things from Canadian I"S""P"s, but this isn't one of them unless there's some specific evidence that goes beyond one blogger's words.

All you'd need in theory was some way of monitoring which addresses were accessed and when, no different than is already done for things like net nanny software. Of course, in practice, it'd be difficult to implement because you're talking about a vast amount of data that needs to be correlated but I know my corporate masters would love the prospect.

we did something big here in the us. we banded together and defeated net neutrality. we should be ever vigilant for attacks on our information superhighway. we have changed campaign finance, we have caught politicians in their lies and bullcrap because of you tube. we can come here and learn the real news instead of what the msm spoon feeds us. the internet is a threat. it is our strength and their weakness. we must protect it.

I have not seen that yet. I know here has been a lot of griping not only about the new charges but also about the exorbitant charges that already exist in Canada. We are the world's cell phone chumps.

For example, it doesn't look like Time magazine will be publishing the promised article.

http://realitycheck.typepad.com/commentary_news/2008/07/death-of-free-internet-is-imminent--canada-will-be-test-case.html#comments

I work in the industry. I don't know how far plans have got but I know that our corporate masters have beem drooling over the prospect of something like this. The techies (including me) are fighting them on it because we like the webway as it is now and the improvements we want to make are all in things like packet-switching, data compression and address allocation i.e. things which would make the webway run faster and more reliably, not bring it "under control".

You can't give people something like this and then take it away.

It's roughly the equivalent of outlawing books.


Unprovoked war? Let it pass.
High gas prices? Touchy, but bearable.
Mortage crisis? That happens to the other guy.
Restrict my access to Brazillian Pee Porn? HELL NO!!!!

Especially this little conspiratorial gem:

"It's all part of the corporate plan for a New World Order and virtually a masterstroke that will lead to the creation of billions and billions of dollars of corporate profit at the expense of the working and middle classes."

:eyes: New World Order? Really, truly? I'm half surprised there was nothing about Reptilian agenda in this article along with the other stupid shit. It would be a death knell for business to go along with this considering the amount of money that is made from advertising alone via the Internet. The ISPs are the only ones that would stand to gain money in this lunatic scenario. Surely, people don't think that big companies would go for anything that is going to affect their bottom-line, do they?

This article is pure and utter nonsense. In fact, read some of the other gems on that site -- more conspiracy bull-crap. The same sort of thing has been available online since the late 1990s talking about New World Orders, and very little of it has proven to be base in facts, much less reality.

Can I see your paycheck stub?

Take the Federalist Papers, and apply them to an empire....

If you can't get something done here. Just do it somewhere else, create a working model, then make it NORMAL!

Sometimes I think the "conspiracy theorists" are the only ones left with any working braincells!