I don’t know whether to classify this as a sensationalist conspiracy theory or something that everyone should think about.
This could affect everyone, i.e YOU! Your affiliate marketing, your blogs, your daily dose of social media sites and on and on…If something like this truly does happen it basically means that the sites we all know and love today will cease to exist in the year 2012 - simply because no one will visit them anymore. Which would almost without a doubt - SUCK!
Watch the video and judge for yourselves, I’m just having a hard time believing these guys because of all their past videos releases. Which is probably perfect fodder for mainstream media to dismiss them, but then again aren’t all conspiracy theorists slightly…well, exotic?
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Hyder has been blogging for the past two years on this blog. He started Weborithm, his web company, in 2007 and along with designing blogs and websites also releases various web related products.
Michael on June 2nd, 2008
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I highly doubt this, it doesn’t make any sense. If ISPs start charging for what sites you visit then too many people would complain.
If a brand new site comes about that is the next Facebook no one would be able to access it and all of the ISPs users would switch to a local ISP without these restrictions.
It sounds to me like a load of crap.
Hyder on June 2nd, 2008
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Michael, I believe it to be a load of crap as well. Let’s just hope it stays that way.
neverahippie on June 3rd, 2008
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Want the truth? BRING IT ON - Wrap a rope around web 2.0, attach brick, drop into the nearest cesspool and pray that it sinks… providing a “free” platform for user-generated content is the carrot used to trick people into doing the marketeers job for them, seriously, count the number of ads on this page alone, count the amount of crosslinks on any blog site you come across, remember that Google indexes each link on a regular basis and builds its page rankings accordingly, then realize that you are already being used by the people you “fear”, and if all you’re worried about is losing your opportunity to read every waking thought of someone you would walk away from if you met them at a party? Then don’t worry: if what’s being discussed for 2012 is real then sites like this one, social networking sites, youtube and myspace will be the only survivors, the sites being threatened are the ones that don’t carry click-through advertising, the ones that don’t already conform to “standards” that have been put in place to stifle creativity and force uniformity onto a mode of communication that was - by design - intended to be completely free-form.
The grave that the internet will be buried in has already been dugg (see what I did there?) and I’m looking forward to dancing on it.
James Wilcox on June 3rd, 2008
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Yeah, this is absurd but you can bet that ISPs are going to start charging more per month for no reason. AT&T is raising my DSL price $5 a month just because they can. Of course they blame it on all the “gaming and downloading going on now”. Horse pucky. People have been using the internet for file transfers since the dawn of NSFNet. That’s why it was created. Is it my fault code is completely bloated now and software downloads take days instead of hours?
Paul Smith on June 13th, 2008
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I personally think that this might actually be a possibility. Think about it for a minute, The government want control, and the use of the internet is one thing they have no control over although they are trying to now with the three strikes rule that is currently being brought into force at the moment (with the three strike rule, the government want the ISP’s to pass on information of people who are using the internet illegally). This could possibly be their first step to start to gain control of the the infrastructure of the net.
The fact that the ISP contracts are coming to an end at around 2012 and Web 2.0 is due to start up in 2012 is a little more than a coincidence in my opinion.
Maybe, or maybe not, but either way there is the possibility of the new Web 2.0 being the platform for this new proposed internet set-up.
The information on Web 2.0 is very scarce and the info that is available is very vague, even the interview with Bill Gates and other people helping to develop it (which is available on Youtube), answers very few questions properly, in fact I would say that they were giving politicians’ answers.
I guess we will have to see how it all folds out, but think about this, if the internet does end up being like TV and you can only visit sites that they (the ISPs & Government) decide to grant you access to, the only source of information you will get will be through the TV and sites which are part of your package. Yeah sure you can visit other sites but these wont last long because nobody will be visiting them.
Other sites will simply vanish over a very short period of time and then BANG….. The government will have control over what news you watch and you will have no other means to source your own information. The only news you will get is the news they decide to feed you.
And there is your government controlled internet. AKA a dictatorship.