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Comment: Re:I used to block ads (Score 1) 978

by Snufu (#43132109) Attached to: Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads

The internet is a public utility like phone, water, and electricity. Its inception was funded by federal research. Its original design and purpose was to facilitate communication between universities and later between the public at large.

The internet was not created by private venture. Businesses have no inherent right to make money off it or to steal bandwidth that other people paid for to push unrequested ads around.

Comment: Internet access is a public utility (Score 5, Insightful) 224

by Snufu (#42985775) Attached to: Copyright Alert System To Launch Monday

like phone lines, water, and electricity. Would you accept an unelected corporate group like Hollywood policing your phone conversations and throttling the line if they didn't like what they overheard you saying? Or throttling your water supply if they objected to the flowers growing in your yard?

Inform your elected officials. Make it clear that we will not tolerate these for-profit commercial groups invading our privacy and abusing public resources. Apply citizen utility rights to internet access.

(By the way, expect small captured governments like New Zealand to bend to corporate influence, but how is this stuff not struck down in modern social leaning nations such as France?)

You will be audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

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