September 2nd, 2009, 2:33PM in No Category by Marc LequimeView Comments
This time last year we were told that our online world was changing forever.
*Apparently*, ten major world Internet Service Providers were in meetings over how they could commercialise the web.
The idea was, we were told, that larger websites would be able to pay the big companies to have their websites load faster. The poorer or non-profit websites would therefore load a lot slower – if at all. This prompted several major blogs to rant about the loss of net neutrality. Youtube videos were made. The Internet world was stunned. There were protests.
What happened?
Absolutely nothing.
Frankly, what could we have expected? From what the ‘net world was proclaiming by now the Internet should be completely dominated by Google, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter. They would have paid millions to be the only websites to load fast. This website probably wouldn’t even exist, and yet look, we are here.
It just goes to show that the Internet will never lose it’s net neutrality.
Think of it this way: all it would take is one ISP to say “No!”, and everyone would flock to their service. No one person owns the Internet, and no one person ever will. It’s one of the glorious things about it.
Anyway, I don’t think we have to worry about our net neutrality rights disappearing any time soon, not for a long time, and not ever. As the title suggests, this is millenium bug 2.0. We expected the Internet world to crash and burn, and yet it lives on to fight another day ~
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