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Sir Tim warns of Internet death without net neutrality
THE END of the world wide web is nigh if net neutrality ends, HTML inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee warned attendees at Nokia World.
Describing today's web as an open space where anyone can start a website anywhere and by word of mouth and blogging can become a business success, Berners-Lee warned that curtailing net neutrality would cut many people off. In Berners-Lee's view degradation of net neutrality could lead to people being excluded from the information society by corporate controls on what data takes priority.
Talking at length about his work to put any and all data on the web and UK and US government projects to do just that, the HTML guru described a virtuous circle of necessity leading to apps, apps encouraging web-based data, and more and more data encouraging more and more apps. Berners-Lee foresees the end of net neutrality harming this mutually beneficial data and apps ecosystem as certain data will be deemed more important than others.
Privacy was another concern of his, he said. He asked, "How do your users know where that data will end up? How do you let the user know what will happen to the data?" Berners-Lee said responsible companies will keep customers by making them know that the company respects their privacy.
Speaking after the Internet guru, Nokia mobile phones VP Mary McDowell told the audience that the company's mantra was that good business could be done for good. Google says something similar but its Internet plan regarding net neutrality has been roundly condemned as ending net neutrality. Who benefits from good business, of course, all depends on your definition of good. µ
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How utterly revolting, in a rushed assumption that one thing will leadth to another, one understands just how ignorant and uneducated the majority art. In a bid to secure the freedom of expression we art allowing certain shady individuals/miscreants to get on with that which we ignore and wish never existed. Also, if the freedom of expression was true, than why art we permitting it to some while rejecting it to others?
In the very end of the simple Human mind we cometh to the conclusion that Human beings art but another species on earth and as such require regulation, for without the regulation we have what we seeth today in "modern society" and we pitifully grovel and glare gleefully saying "we are the most advanced civilisation" how absurd, resting on our laurels when we art capable of much more. We still have a colossal situation regarding crime, rape, narcotic abuse, murder, incest, genocide etcetera and the ills that result where imprisonment and civil punishments art ridiculed and where rehabilitation is used as a form of escaping prison only to commit crime again.
Our problems began the day we wanted to please everybody, because of this mental state we allowth gays into the monastery although the Bible, Old Testament, Corinthians or Deuteronomy it was clearly stated that gays must be forbidden and we were instructed not to be gays, yet here they are having a say in religious matters, religious hypocrisy is in an all time high and we use the kindness and love of Jesus to allowth a murderer to carry on murdering this is a manifest vile and woeful act because our mercy and love is a source of injustice for the weak and they feel retribution-less, Jesus did say in the Bible, when pursued by the Jews to his companions to buy swords for fighting and to capture the pursuers and slay them before him, and his most memorable outburst was "Think not that I have come to bring peace to the world but that I came to bring it ablaze, or another translation says, have come with fire"
Justice should not be blurred by the worldly material gains or because of personal benefit. It is easy to follow rules when they agree with thee but when the rules art in conflict with thee, then thy cast it away, how shameful.
Hold thy hands up with palms facing up like ye art begging and sayth after me "OH LORD GOD, VERILY WE LOVETH THE WORLD AND WILL DO MUCH INJUSTICE FOR IT, BUT STRENGTHEN OUR HEARTS AGAINST MATERIALISM THAT WE MAY DO JUSTICE" AMEN all say AMEN
First, I don't think anyone will be shut out from the net, I think you'll soon be *forced* onto it for most dealings with gov't (and business, such as banks, health care, insurance, anything major, who in large degree report your affairs directly to gov't), short of being tossed into jail. So I completely disagree with that point.
The current, larger problem is that the first small breach of net neutrality is just the start. It's obvious that plutocrats and control-freaks of every type will continue to conspire against the public by slow degrees, until there's no freedom left. The internet is already the last redoubt of anything like freedom, so when it's breached in even a small way, the end is in sight.