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North Korea and Net Neutrality

Im sure that many people would consider the new freedom of ‘internet’ issue at hand, to be very similar to North Korea, and the Berlin Wall.  North Korea is a place where people are trapped inside, and are to be shot if they are caught trying to leave.  Which I would correlate with *going to the site you really want to be at*.  Where as, people on the outside are able to freely come into North Korea.  This is what I would consider, the internet providers way of getting people to go where they want.

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea for more information on North Korea.  I watched a video on it a couple of months ago and it’s really quite interesting what goes on there.  The problem is, it’s not the kind of interesting that I’d like to see in my country.  But, this sort of thing could start to affect the way we browse the internet.

Net neutrality is important for anyone who enjoys browsing the internet, watching videos, and playing online games.  The fact that internet providers are now trying to start charging people based on how much files they transfer, is ridiculous.  Eventually it is believed that internet providers will start to charge money for the ability to go on specific websites.

This would mean, if the internet provider cut a deal with Yahoo, that they wouldn’t allow you to access google.  Or if they did allow you to access google, it would take an extremely long load.  The only reason for the internet providers to do this is because they want more money.  It seems to me like they’re making plenty of money the way it is.

I would consider this situation to be just like that of the Berlin Wall.  When there are things inside of the walls that the people outside the walls can’t get.  The inside being democratic/capitalist, and the outside of the walls being a communist environment.  Where people or ‘forced’ to share and use things they don’t particularly want to.  In other words, freedom lies inside of the walls, and the walls are heavily guarded with gunman ordered to shoot you on site.

Internet providers seem to be planning somewhat of the same thing.  Installing huge firewalls, and blocks so that you can’t access the sites you really want to.  While in doing this, getting you to go to other sites that ‘they’ want you to go to.  Of course you’re not going to get shot if you ‘try’ to get into the sites you don’t have access to any more, but they’ll make it pretty damn inconvenient.

I’m hoping, that if the internet providers ever grouped together and decided to do something like this.  Someone would come out and make a new internet provider that supported internet neutrality.  I know, that if no other internet providers formed, than I would try to start one.  I’m absolutely desparate for freedom on the internet.

With all of the new rules and internet laws being put into place though, this doesn’t seem like to far fetched of an idea.  I read that providers like Verizon, and Time Warner Cable are leaning towards making the switch by 2012.  I’m not sure what kind of boycotts and protests are already being planned for this, but I’d probably only be able to hold out a little while without my precious internet.

If you want to help do something to stop internet providers from breaking the rules of net neutrality, then you can google ’save the internet’, and/or ‘net neutrality’.  Good look saving the internet, and enjoy it while you still have it…