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Doomsday For The Internet As We Know It?

Paul Joseph Watson/PrisonPlanet.com | February 6 2006

Several developments that are coming to the fore indicate a noticeable
advance towards a government regulated, taxed and controlled system
that spells doomsday for the Internet as we know it.

The first steps in a move to charge for every e mail sent have already
been taken. Under the pretext of eliminating spam, Bill Gates and
other industry chieftains have proposed Internet users buy credit
stamps which denote how many e mails they will be able to send. This
of course is the death knell for political newsletters and mailing
lists.

The New York Times reports that "America Online and Yahoo, two of the
world's largest providers of e-mail accounts, are about to start using
a system that gives preferential treatment to messages from companies
that pay from 1/4 of a cent to a penny each to have them delivered.
The senders must promise to contact only people who have agreed to
receive their messages, or risk being blocked entirely."

The end game is a system similar to China, whereby no websites even
mildly critical of the government will be authorized.

The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological warfare
and cyber attacks on 'enemy' Internet websites in an attempt to shut
them down. The fact that the NSA surveillance program spied on 5,000
Americans tells us that the enemy is the alternative media and that it
will be targeted for elimination. Court cases are pending after the
Bush administration demanded the Google search terms of American
citizens.

The first wave will simply attempt to price people out of using the
conventional Internet and force people over to Internet 2, a state
regulated hub where permission will need to be obtained directly from
an FCC or government bureau to set up a website.

The original Internet will then be turned into a mass surveillance
database and marketing tool. The Nation magazine reported last week,
"Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are
developing strategies that would track and store information on our
every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing
system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency.
According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone
and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest
pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major
advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these
providers would have first priority on our computer and television
screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer
communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out."

We see a move to demonize the Internet and tar its reputation. AOL is
running ads equating Internet users with terrorists. In the next few
years we may see a staged Internet shutdown which is blamed on cyber
terrorists.

For the aspiring dictator, the Internet is a dangerous tool that has
been seized by the enemy. We have come a long way since 1969, when the
ARPANET was created solely for US government use. The Internet is
freedom's best friend and the bane of control freaks. Its eradication
is one of the short term goals of those that seek to centralize power
and subjugate the world under a global surveillance panopticon prison.

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