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2012: The year the Internet ends

While I was browsing through the PMT forums, a thread got my attention. The thread is saying something about the internet stopping at the year 2012. We are disheartened by what we have read. A lot of PMT members have different opinions on this stuff. With all the arguing they are doing, I come to the point that I should take an action about this by educating my readers about this.

Here are the reports that I found while browsing the site.

Update : 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.

It seems that they are going to reduce the usage of Internet by having the users to additional fee if they want to browse another site. With this, the smaller sites will closed down because no one will be paying for them.

What can we do?

We could support Google be informing everyone about this. Write about this on your blogs and let your readers know about it. There is still a chance that we could save the internet. We can sign the petition on stopping this which is sponsored by Google. The movement is called Net Neurality. You can see the whole petition here .

Tags: Ramblings   Posted in Around the net, Ramblings