Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP's all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These 'other' sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet.
Dylan Pattyn *, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.
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I don't know if I believe this. From the beginning there have been rogues assuring the free use of the internet. There still are. With all the free speech hoohah and creative commons types out there for no profit (the majority of the sites I visit), this seems very unlikely, more like a fat businessman's wet dream.
If ISPs try to limit their customers' access to the "information superhighway" (gah what a stupid term) they're not going to keep very many customers, that's for sure. And a more liberal ISP will get the business. Simple as that.
Call me skeptical.
I could kinda see it maybe not happening... False!
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