2012: The year the internet almost dies

[tagmwar]

Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package. Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.
This well-known illustration of why we need net neutrality turns out to be very close to the truth:

What can we do?

Internet providers have realized that the only way to not lose massive amounts of customers over this is to make sure there are no alternatives, that's why all major Internet providers are currently making agreements and planning to switch simultaneously somewhere in the year 2012. This is currently all going on under very strict NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements) because the last thing they want is the masses speaking out against it.
We were able to uncover this information because we have been well-known net neutrality activists for longer than a year now and over time have we've gotten in contact with many high-profile industry insiders. We will continue our activism and the I Power website serves as a platform for joining forces, sharing ideas and spreading awareness.
It's our responsibility to spread the word, use any sort of political or media contacts you may know. The more awareness there is, the more impossible it'll be for Internet providers to make this switch. Let's make sure that by 2012, ISP's won't even dare think about doing anything that goes against the principles of net neutrality.

More info...

Net neutrality has been a much debated issue for several years now and there have been many lawsuits in cases where an Internet provider blocked access to a certain competitor's site or simply crippled download speeds on services that they felt were using up too much of their bandwidth. But this new information that has now been confirmed by inside sources from major ISP's and content providers gives us a far bleaker vision of what the future of Internet freedom will look like if we don't take action in every way we can.
Why is this happening? The entire media and marketing industry is losing its grip on the upcoming generations of Internet-minded consumers. Statistics show that traditional media is losing popularity as the Internet continues to grow drastically every year. And the Internet is a completely different place: consumers aren't passive any more and advertisements don't have the same psychological effect they normally have on television. Internet users are very active and focused: they only go to the sites and services they want, and with an infinite amount of alternatives, users simply switch to something else if one service becomes too commercialized with annoying advertisements.With this in mind, it's no surprise that the past 6 years the industry has secretly been planning a 'take-over' to secure the Internet as a purely commercial playground.

Spread The Word

But there is hope... More and more people are becoming aware of the importance of net neutrality and now that we have uncovered what the industries have been plotting, it's not just about big corporations forming shady agreements, it's about what they will say to their users who will demand an explanation from their providers on what will happen to their access in 2012. As long as there are alternatives, we can pressure those providers who admit to being against net neutrality and favor those who take a stand and choose to give their users their freedom even after 2012. We can keep pushing for net neutrality laws and we can start spreading awareness on a massive scale to make sure that ISP's think twice before signing anything that'll go against the freedom that made the Internet into the important open medium that it is today.
It's our responsibility, spread the word and use any sort of political or media contacts you may know. Let's make sure that by 2012, ISP's won't even dare think about doing anything that goes against the principles of net neutrality.

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I Power Check this site out it is no joke!!!!!

PS: I didnt write this!!! But it is true dont just forget it!! It is going to happen!!!

[Krabita]

Sounds like a strange conspiracy theory. If this was ever to take effect there would be ISPs that wouldn't sign it. Because if an ISP allowed access to everything like normal then everyone would go with them. I just don't think it's going to happen. And if it does happen I don't think it will last.
And it seems very convenient for the writer of this article to say the year this will be is in the same year as the end of the Mayan calender. That deffinately sounds like a ploy to me to make it seem more real or believable.
I just don't think the original writer is intrested in fact as much as they are conspiracy.

[tagmwar]

And it seems very convenient for the writer of this article to say the year this will be is in the same year as the end of the Mayan calender.

I dont beleive the world is going to end. It is phisicaly impossible for the world to end unless the core was to just blow up and shoot magma out!! I think it is the year jesus will be coming to earth!! But this is just my opion

[Demonshade]

I dont beleive the world is going to end. It is phisicaly impossible for the world to end unless the core was to just blow up and shoot magma out!! I think it is the year jesus will be coming to earth!! But this is just my opion

It isnt physically impossible since a meteor could crash into the earth and destroy all of man kind. Back on topic, i dont think this is true...Why would they provide google search if every website goes down and you have any website to search.

[tagmwar]

The meteor would have to be one big a$$ meteor to go through our admisfer but back to the topic there will still be websites u just will be getting 60 websites like wickipedia and google and others for 29.99 a month and for 39.99 u get 200 websites and if u want all the websites u will be paying a he|| of a lot to get them

[Krabita]

I didn't even think of what Demonshade said. What would be the point of google. You'd have a list of sites you were allowed. I really can't see this happening. A vast, vast, vast, extremely vast majority of online buisnesses would be neglected. Buisnesses would have to pay a shitload to ISPs to get their site put on even the biggest list.

It would be very impracticle and I believe there would be an economic breakdown. We would go backwards in that what we just created (internet buying) would practically gone. You'd have eBay it seems and thats all. I predict if they ever do plan to do this and release it to the public, within a month there will be millions of people with pitchforks and burning stuff surrounding all ISP companies that agree.

But like I said before, all it would take would be one ISP to not agree to this radical and extrememly inefficient idea and they would become the worlds #1 ISP. Either that or governments would make their own ISPs to stop that shit.


EDIT: That was a wall-o-text sorry. Broke it apart.

[Abstraction]

Looks photoshopped

[Icicle]

meh its all fake, and athene is a sell out

[Dragonshadow]

It isnt physically impossible since a meteor could crash into the earth and destroy all of man kind. Back on topic, i dont think this is true...Why would they provide google search if every website goes down and you have any website to search.

Or say... Mars could suddenly lose orbit (lol it won't) and become Earth's buttbuddy.

[susy]

Its and old april joke
90-95% of internet users would just quit
So no profit anymore

It would take us to internet stone age , where each minute you were connected costed (dial up)

Someone will hack that shit open anyways if it comes.

OMG ill make my own net company and sell old good net , ;p

[Praesto]

This is fake. Someone watched to much South-Park

[Narudan]

Fake,
seriously do you really believe that?

[stigggs]

I can see Time Warner doing this