Freedom!
YES-ah, I say, Freedom to SURF-ah…
Freedom to BUY-ah…
Freedom, to POST-ah!
Save us from those that want to take this away!
We don’t have to imagine what the telecoms would like to do with the internet, because they are quite happy to tell us exactly what they plan to do.
Hey, Edward Whitacre, CEO of AT&T: Keep your pipes to yourself
Edward Whitacre, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), AT&T Whitacre has been the most candid in stating the telecoms' intentions: "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that… Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for… anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts."
BOO HOO for Yahoo!
Bill Smith, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), BellSouth. Smith "told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc. Or, Smith said, his company should be allowed to charge a rival voice-over-Internet firm so that its service can operate with the same quality as BellSouth's offering."
From the bowels of Verizon:
John Thorne, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon. Thorne described Verizon's plans to charge websites available on networks provided by the big telecoms, stating that they are "enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of the facilities providers."
According to the ACLU, telecoms have been practicing control over the internet for some time now:
“Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com, an advocacy campaign opposing AOL's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.
BellSouth blocked its customers' access to MySpace.com in Tennessee and Florida.
Cingular Wireless, run by AT&T, bars access to PayPal to make a payment on eBay because it has struck a deal with another online payment service, which pays Cingular for that privileged status.”
Hey, Edward Whitacre, CEO of AT&T: Keep your pipes to yourself
Edward Whitacre, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), AT&T Whitacre has been the most candid in stating the telecoms' intentions: "How do you think they're going to get to customers? Through a broadband pipe. Cable companies have them. We have them. Now what they would like to do is use my pipes free, but I ain't going to let them do that… Why should they be allowed to use my pipes? The Internet can't be free in that sense, because we and the cable companies have made an investment and for… anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts."
BOO HOO for Yahoo!
Bill Smith, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), BellSouth. Smith "told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc. Or, Smith said, his company should be allowed to charge a rival voice-over-Internet firm so that its service can operate with the same quality as BellSouth's offering."
From the bowels of Verizon:
John Thorne, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Verizon. Thorne described Verizon's plans to charge websites available on networks provided by the big telecoms, stating that they are "enjoying a free lunch that should, by any rational account, be the lunch of the facilities providers."
According to the ACLU, telecoms have been practicing control over the internet for some time now:
“Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com, an advocacy campaign opposing AOL's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.
BellSouth blocked its customers' access to MySpace.com in Tennessee and Florida.
Cingular Wireless, run by AT&T, bars access to PayPal to make a payment on eBay because it has struck a deal with another online payment service, which pays Cingular for that privileged status.”
Regardless that the vast majority of people want internet freedom, it seems that telecoms and politicians are forging ahead with their plans to do as they please. The numbers are in and driving the fight to win this issue are the hundreds of millions in revenue to make the fat even fatter. As a nation known for our freedoms, we stand idly by while the fox raids the hen house.
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