When are the US Government and business interests going to realize that they no longer own the internet ? Anything like this that they do directly impacts on non-US citizens and their governments, and is most likely illegal. Isn't there something in international law about interfering with the sovereignty of other nations ? Although we all know that GW doesn't pay any attention to international law, we can all hope that your congress has more of an idea, at least collectively, and will respect the rights of other countries and their citizens when the bill before them doesn't have Bush's warmongering fingerprints all over it.

It's our world.

You just live in it.

Hail Satan.

I am pretty sure a country has control over the resources and services they provide. Europe bitching about us fucking with the internet is like us bitching about Iran fucking with oil.

indeed.

No, this is Bullshit.

Who here doesnt pay for their phone?
Who here doesnt pay for their internet connection?

What these companies want is to be able make Cash BOTH ways.
They Want to make cash off of you AND the people/business you want to connect to.

this has NOTHING to do with just phone copper lines...it effects cable and fiber optics too.....the Shit We help subsidized.

this means that unless websites (and apparently it will be whatever websites the telecom companies choose) pay a black mail fee.

when you log on to the internet, you DONT get to choose what search engine you use, what online store you shop at, or even what Link listing site you kill time on.


no google, no yahoo, no ebay , no amazon

but you bet your ass when these telecoms start getting into these very same business/services they wanna black mail, youll get to see their versions just fine.

Instead of Internet Access...
What your gonna get are Rebranded versions of AOL.

Or people will exercise the power of several million united citizens and boycott those industries that support it. They are corporations and money talks, as well as a lack of money.

If Martin Luther King Jr. and Co. could get a racist government to desegregate busses, the American people can stop this.

Mofo, you are right, the people CAN stop this. The question is, will they get off their fat lazy asses and do it ? Somehow I doubt it. The people will do what they always do, sit there and get screwed.

I will not just lay there.
I will moan like a coked up porn queen.

...boycott those industries that support it.

Can you really see people boycotting telephone companies and ISPs?