I can see from recent articles and this one that folks are worried by certain US companies suggesting a toll system on the internet highway, lets read on...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5009250.stmThe web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.
Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.
He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".
The World Wide Web Consortium, of which Sir Tim is the director, believes in an open model.
This is based on the concept of network neutrality, where everyone has the same level of access to the web and that all data moving around the web is treated equally
Hmm I agree that it would be an affront to humanity to start being selfish and carving up bits of the net for themselves.
If they want a private internet let them pay for it and go their own way and leave the real life users behind, businesses reap the benefit from sitting next to home made sites and if it became one big online shopping mall I for one would switch to using the fledgling wireless networks out there that would not suffer from the problem, although perhaps it would mean a more local system of readership
