End o' the internet - need confirm?

Question

i thought forcing people to switch to HDTV was c**p but this...

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester

&

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2

Does anyone have any solid evidence proving the truth or untruth to these articles?

- reliable links only -

Answer 1

The articles aren't true. No one has domain over the internet, that's what makes it the internet. Their is no possible way for corporations or the government to divide up the internet since it is completely international and not based in any one spot. Thousands of new pages are made every day and there is nothing regulating these things. These people are paranoid and if you think logically you can understand why this would never happen. If all these companies that provided internet would start doing this, these companies would lose business incredibly fast as well as being attacked with so many protests and such, and if any business owner is smart just start a new company and have it unlimited access, everyone will join your company.

And why would these companies even do this? Why risk being shut down by the government(which the government can do) just for making more money when they make billions as is.? Its too much of a risk for any smart company to do this, and lastly this people in companies are EVIL people. All they want you to do is for you to chose them over someone else, their not in it to form some secret thing where the try and shut down the internet. There's no point, the internet is such a helpful tool that NO ONE, not even the company heads, want to shut it down.