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PAY TO ACCESS YOUR FAVORITE WEBSITES?
One of the most important issues facing the internet today is still on some levels an unknown to the average person. What you are using right now, and for most of you, all day at work, is one of the most important technologies to ever be invented. The internet connects cities and countries around the globe in seconds. It’s a technology that at only 15-20 years of age is still relatively young.
Things are beginning to change, and as the average American opens an internet browser to get their news as opposed to buying a newspaper, news corporations are beginning to see profit margins plummet. The internet as we know it today is a commodity. Outside of your monthly bill, which gives you internet access, you have the freedom to surf the web for the low low cost of $0.
So the question is: would you pay to access some of your favorite news websites?
For example: Time Warner owns CNN which owns Sports Illustrated. Disney owns ABC which owns ESPN. What if Time Warner or Disney decided to charge you a monthly fee to access their family of websites? It’s not only a possibility, it’s a future reality. But don’t worry, TSF should be and will be free – so you can still get your daily dose of witty childish humor and celebrity breasts.
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch spoke with CNN about the issue this week:
“We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning,” the News Corp. Chairman and CEO said.
“We have been at the forefront of that debate and you can confidently presume that we are leading the way in finding a model that maximizes revenues in return for our shareholders… The current days of the Internet will soon be over.”
“News executives are starting to recognize that online advertising revenues are not enough on their own,” Benton told CNN.
[interview source: CNN.com]
With that in mind, please do yourself a favor and watch this video about “moms on the net” circa 1992-1994:
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Net Neutrality – Your Internet Freedom In Jeopardy
If you are reading this sentence right now you are using a service with no limits or boundaries. You pay a company such as Comcast or AT&T to give you access to the internet. When you open your web browser, you expect to be able to access any website at any time. You’re even allowed to create your own content at no extra charge. You are exercising Net Neutrality.
Net neutrality is a term described by www.savetheinternet.com as:
Network Neutrality — or “Net Neutrality” for short — is the guiding principle that preserves the free and open Internet.
Put simply, Net Neutrality means no discrimination. Net Neutrality prevents Internet providers from speeding up or slowing down Web content based on its source, ownership or destination.
Net Neutrality is the reason why the Internet has driven economic innovation, democratic participation, and free speech online. It protects the consumer’s right to use any equipment, content, application or service on a non-discriminatory basis without interference from the network provider. With Net Neutrality, the network’s only job is to move data — not choose which data to privilege with higher quality service.
Without the internet the world would feel empty. I can wait until 6am every day to read a newspaper that will be out of date by the afternoon, or I can log onto my favorite news website and be updated every second.
Just imagine this: your check your news everyday at CNN.com. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is Comcast. Comcast decides to sell “Internet Space” to Fox News and Comcast blocks you from accessing CNN.com because it’s a competitor to Fox News.
Or your ISP starts to charge you, per use, to access Google. Or YouTube. These ideas are not far fetched.
We may be living in a short-lived free internet age. Read more at www.savetheinternet.com.
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