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Big Companies that supply internet to homes are debating on buying different sites. If this occured this is how things would be. Say you have adelphia internet service and Pivot bought the website google.com, you having adelphia would not be able to go to this site, or it would just be really really slow. If this happened the internet would be slit up or divided into 5 or so different groups. What would you think of this.

Another thing that is coming soon are if the website does not pay a fee then the website will either be un available or be dial up speeds no matter what service you have!

If both of these things pass would internet die?

Big companies may buy out big sites, but the internet isn't hosted in one specific place.

So would that mean the would place fees on having networks?
A giant network is pretty much what the internet is..
(Someone or something had sex with the internet. The results? Local Area Networks! Then they grew up into WANs. )

EDIT:
.. I don't know.

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What kind of retarded question is that? If the internet was going to die out, it would have YEARS AGO.

Edit: Turns out I was wrong, the house has rejected net neutrality.
Heres what this means:
ISPs are now allowed to choose what content loads for their customers, and how quickly it loads. This allows them to essentially control what their customers read, and is really a bad thing. Unless something big happens very soon, ISPs will start charging certain websites for faster acess-- they require websites to pay them to make their sites load quickly. This paying for fast loading has nothing wrong with it in itself, but it becomes a problem when the ISPs are also allowed to charge for sites to load at all. Hope that was clearer, for more info on net neutrality and the rejected bill, www.savetheinternet.com has good information.

Yes I know that is what I was trying to say just in more lamens terms because I didnt feel like writing it all out like that. Would this mean that SEN would be really slow, or if we paid then would it be faster?

No. SeN is nowhere near large enough to be considered for buying out. Smaller sites, wouldn't be bought out. Larger ones, like Google, would be bought.

I'm pretty sure google won't be bought out but they will buy out other sites. They are so big and have so much money that they will create their own and end up buying other people's websites.

There was no internet for the public in the 70's, and no internet for the public in the 80's.

The day the internet itself gets divided up and privately owned I'm throwing out my computer, and I'm sure I won't be the only one.

This won't happen any time soon, and it won't be the end of the internet if it does happen, the internet will probably just die in public places, like libraries.

Omg, Internet can't die, it just getting better n better.

The only time the internet would die would be when it gets out dated by a better system.

Yes I know this but what I am saying is if SEN doesnt pay then it will upload slow on our computers, right! Because they say if sites dont pay up they will be like dial up speed or slower.

No... If they don't pay they get shut down or suspended.

This is why I hate most of our politicians. They're greedy and corrupt. Voting for net neutrality would have restored hope in me for them, but of course they ruined that. They listen to the lobbyists, who really control this nation. The real reason for this is that the Telecom companies are greedy. VoIP (Voice over IP) has given big hits to phone companies. Also, Telecom companies want to be able to control sites like YouTube and Google Video, which transfer huge amounts of data. Maybe that in itself isn't bad, because current bandwidth limits of cable and DSL do present a very large and finite obstacle to voice and video files being transferred online. However, once new broadband technologies start filtering into the mainstream, such as VDSL (which runs in the tens of MB/sec) and Internet2 (which I believe can hit 1.5 Terabytes/sec currently, and is expected to get faster), then there will be no excuse to not have net neutrality. The cable companies are really scared, because cable is taking big hits in market share (cable t.v. to satellite, and cable internet to DSL and future technologies, where cable lines altogether will be forgotten). Cable just doesn't nearly have the bandwidth capabilities of optical lines or the other types of lines being developed. Also, the internet, t.v., phone, etc. as a whole is starting the transition to total wireless capability and no wired capability (though undoubtedly many institutions such as government buildings and LucasArt's filming campus will retain wired networks for amazing bandwidth).

*Edit* I was just re-reading some of your posts, and I'd like to add that I am pretty darn sure that Telecom companies cannot refuse internet bandwidth to any site, but big sites that pay will get a so-called "internet fast lane" with more bandwidth. Essentially, that means VoIP won't be able to transmit their data fast enough if they don't pay huge fees. I think our best bet, if the government doesn't honor net neutrality, is to simply protest against the Telecom companies. Also, since there is still something close to a capitalist market with the Telecoms (though companies such as Comcast have near monopolies), I hope that they [the Telecoms] will refrain from placing restrictions on sites and VoIP companies simply under the fear that their customers will migrate to another IP company that doesn't offer those restrictions on their favorite sites!

4G Wireless

For example, the above technology would obliterate any need to postpone net neutrality.

Yeah I agree with that one I doubt someone is going to buy the internet and make it private or something because he wont get away with it

Thing is, you can't buy the internet. It's hosted in millions of servers and computers. If someone buys all of them, people will just make more servers.

I wonder if the internet would ever really be divided, I mean if that thing passes for the companies to buy all the big sites, some users may not be able to visit some sites? That just seams wierd!

Several years or less from now, the very world we live in WILL literally become the internet, if you get what I mean.
Meaning, the words "life" and "internet" will become synonyms.

There is a guy that they placed a computer chip in him that was connected to his nerves (experiment) it was a chip that transmited actions to a human looking robot, using his mind tha man made the robot copy every one of his moves just by thinking and moving, another chip made him control just by thinkning, the man didnt have to move, that kool!