Internet to be deflowerd by Virgin Media

The Internet is arguably man’s greatest invention. It is the global library, the frontier of free speech and the depository of wasted time. What make’s the Internet a success is its infinite accessibility. If you can connect to the Internet, you can go nearly anywhere. If you are a hacker, you could simply go anywhere. Still, the pervasive ideal of the Internet is that there is little to limit your online experience.The Internet is a place of ingenuity and creativity. Once the spam filter is up, Web sites can only bring in new customers by having interesting content. Otherwise why would we go to that site? Unfortunately, larger business cannot stand a scenario in which their severe lack of creativity and their inability to empathize with their fellow man could hurt sales. If they can’t pin you down and twist your arm, how will they ever make quota this quarter? After sitting in the dark for days, concentrating hard on how to soil noble ideals, media companies decided that they would throttle (lower the ability to access) sites that would not pay an additional fee. In a very real way it’s similar to when the mob demands protection money from local businesses, “Yous got a nice website here. Be a shame if no one could access it, wouldn’t it? If say, someone was to knock over all these data packets and makes a mess of your blog.”For the most part, companies in America are doing this, but they aren’t bringing attention to it. This is because there is a debate in the Land of the Free over Net Neutrality. The concept merely sets out the idea that people should be able to have a presence on the World Wide Web without undue restrictions. In the UK groups such as Virgin Media are doing this in plain site, often bragging about it.In an interview with Royal Television Society’s Television magazine Virgin Media’s incoming CEO Neil Berkett called Net Neutrality a “load of bollocks,” mentioning that Virgin Media was already involved in content throttling, and that those who wouldn’t pay premiums would be in “bus lanes.” For those of you unfamiliar with British terminology, “bollocks” are testicles. Neil Berkett is equating Net Neutrality with a load of testicles. Whether he is working with a specific number of testicles or an amount determined by weight, no one is sure.There is no reason to believe that corporations are going to limit actions to simple greed and extortion. There is nothing to stop companies like Virgin Media from throttling sites for other reasons. Let’s say I run a site called NeilBurkettLovesBollocks.com which features an animation of Neil Burkett being crushed by a load of bollocks (testicles) over and over again. There is really nothing stopping companies from slowing access to my site and infringing on my right to free speech. Since they have all the control and access, I would be hard pressed to even prove they were doing it for that reason. Contrary to Republican views, corporations are notorious for finding loopholes and stepping on the common man.The Internet is the best thing for humanity because it makes the great distances between us irrelevant. Content is chosen by its quality and demand, not because it is the best of a few limited choices. If people let Net Neutrality fall to the wayside, we’ll end up with an Internet that resembles cable television: a wide expanse of content, and nothing of any value.