Virgin Media

[Guerrilla]

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Keep Virgin from destroying the internet...

The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others. They would then put websites and services that don't pay Virgin in the "slow lane", meaning those sites would load slowly and cause most users to give up using them, feeling forced to use whatever Virgin wants to push through their network.

This is not the first time an internet provider infringes upon net neutrality, but it is the first time that an ISP so brutally states that they simply plan to limit internet access to a television-like system in which the access provider completely regulates the content you have access to.

Virgin Media has over 3.5 million customers in the UK and the real danger is that when they start applying this system to their network, all major internet providers around the globe will soon follow the trend. Because this is exactly what major ISP's have been wanting to do for years.

But we can stop it.

If the masses of the internet react against this, we will set an example of what happens when one provider tries to take away our freedom. We will make it very clear that any ISP who tries to infringe upon net neutrality will see its popularity go down the drain because the users don't accept it. And we'll see to it that only the providers who care about safeguarding our internet freedom have our support.

Speak out in any way you can and spread the word.



_________________________(copied from RageZone)


This is a very interesting and slightly troubling topic that I have stumbled upon.

I would like to start a SERIOUS discussion on this, post your ideas, questions, etc.

More importantly, post this around.

[Mr.Lucifer]

A Norwegian ISP tried the same, but they weren't allowed by the government.

I personally think it's terrible, and ruins the purpose of internet. I advise everyone to boycot Virgin, I will.

[Nintendo Mike]

What the ****....

[Colby]

It's infringing on the one thing we still have that isn't controlled by the cooperations, the one place that we can be truly free. A step against this is a step towards a brighter tomorrow. I'm not going to be a slave to the cooperations.

[slingblader]

Originally Posted by Billionz

It's infringing on the one thing we still have that isn't controlled by the cooperations, the one place that we can be truly free. A step against this is a step towards a brighter tomorrow. I'm not going to be a slave to the cooperations.

Yes you are, they're not going to give you an option (plus we all already lol).

[Colby]

Originally Posted by slingblader

Yes you are, they're not going to give you an option (plus we all already lol).

I'm no slave, I could survive without them. Also, I think it's that kind of attitude that makes people the way they are now, unwilling to face the "man" so to speak. In this case I suppose he would be the cooperations, but what can they do to the public? As much as we don't need them, they need us ten fold more. Basically, what they're saying in that video is true, if you pull the customers away the trend will end.

[Gorilla Juice]

YouTube - Real Sex vs. Roleplay Sex

[Nintendo Mike]

Belgium FTL srsly.

[Machiko]

lol what ppl do for money

[slingblader]

Originally Posted by Billionz

I'm no slave, I could survive without them. Also, I think it's that kind of attitude that makes people the way they are now, unwilling to face the "man" so to speak. In this case I suppose he would be the cooperations, but what can they do to the public? As much as we don't need them, they need us ten fold more. Basically, what they're saying in that video is true, if you pull the customers away the trend will end.

Cooperations own pretty much everything now, at least on some level. The food you it is mass produced, the computer you typed that on is mass produced, as was the chair you were sitting on. It's not so much they have ultimate power over us, but we do need them. Things can't make a massive switch in an instant. Sure, we could stop this kind of thing, make our little changes, but cooperations aren't going anywhere, and they are going to forever produce damn near everything we use.

[Nintendo Mike]

Originally Posted by Machiko

lol what ppl do for attention

Fix' d.

[TheMasterOGames]

Ima doin mah part

[YARG!!!!]

i hate virgin they called me saying they wanted 800$ for using my phone and i told them to **** off and told my dad to lock his credit card.
i ****ing hate big corporations they ****ing ruin the planet.

[Dicey]

Stick with not so big corporations but I gotta say the downtime they have is a piss take.

[An Amateur]

Originally Posted by slingblader

Cooperations own pretty much everything now, at least on some level. The food you it is mass produced, the computer you typed that on is mass produced, as was the chair you were sitting on. It's not so much they have ultimate power over us, but we do need them. Things can't make a massive switch in an instant. Sure, we could stop this kind of thing, make our little changes, but cooperations aren't going anywhere, and they are going to forever produce damn near everything we use.

Your right that we need coorperations, but thats not the point. They point is that they need us more, because there are other cooperations who will give us what we want to get our custom. And if there isn't? There are a thousand potential euntrepeners (sp?) that would love to take advantage of mass customer disatisfaction with an industry to make big money.

Net nutrality is a serious issue, but its not something that big coorperations can get away with so easily. The very fact that people are making videos like that, that there are people aware of these plans and that these people care about net neutrality seals its fate.

Its also not in many cooperations best interests for the web to become privatised in such a way. E-commerce sites would be hit hard, and im sure it would violate fair competition laws in some contries if it was made harder for smaller/new e-commerce sites to compete.
It concerns me that big cooperations want to essentialy privatise the web, but im not worried that its going to pass.