Recently ISP’s have started putting caps on internet bandwidth governing how much data we can access per month and also putting forth a bill to congress that would allow them to monitor all files and web pages that users access under the guise of filtering child pornography.
In no way do I condone child pornography, but using it as an excuse to pry into our privacy is a little much. Little by little we are losing our freedom and privacy to phone and cable companies.
Here is how the software being considered by ISP’s would work:
Whenever an Internet user searched the Web, attached a file to an e-mail or examined a menu of files using file-sharing software on a peer-to-peer network, the software would compare the hash values of those files against the file registry.
If there were no match, the file would be provided to the user who requested it. But if there were a match, transmission of the file would be blocked. The users would instead receive another image or movie or document, containing only a warning screen.
The following video takes a look at Net Neutrality and examines the possibility of the internet going the way of newspapers and television- being entirely controlled by corporate interests. No more independent media, no more blogs, no more voice.
