05-18-2006, 11:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-18-2006, 11:25 PM by Chesspiece_face.)
Occhidiangela,May 18 2006, 04:15 PM Wrote:Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act (COPE Act)
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Is this the same proposal that the communication giants (verizon, comcast, bellsouth, etc) have been trying to ram through legislation that would allow the corporations to keep tabs on each and every action we make on the internet? As well as allow them to operate their ISPs as if they were private networks? if it is the same proposal than the idea of this being a means to hunt down child pornographers etc is just a red herring.
what this would do is allow the ISP's to control what we can access across their networks. you have road runner for your isp and want to read a news site? well you're choice of sites that they allow access to is CNN.com. if you want to read a news site of a competing company there would be nothing stopping them from limiting your bandwidth while accessing that site or just blocking it completley. also it allows these corporations to create a hierarchal internet giving preferable access to those who pay higher prices. This opens a whole can of worms where they could limit the amount of emails you can send each month, limit what you can access, etc.
"Not happy with your limited internet access and slow speeds while browsing our competitors sites?!? Time to upgrade to our Platinum service. For only 99$ a month you get unlimited email! Full unrestricted access to over 20,000 more websites (*see attached list). And the ability to block unwanted spam mail!"
or in other words we get raked over the coals for the exact same services we have now.
Edit: Yeah it looks like COPE is the same load of crap.
Baltimore Sun Article
Older article from The Nation.