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Secret Plan To Kill Internet By 2012 Leaked?

Some question if report that pay-per-view system to be introduced is a hoax, but wider march to regulate the web is documented

Paul Joseph Watson / Prison Planet | June 11, 2008

ISP�s have resolved to restrict the Internet to a TV-like subscription model where users will be forced to pay to visit selected corporate websites by 2012, while others will be blocked, according to a leaked report. Despite some people dismissing the story as a hoax, the wider plan to kill the traditional Internet and replace it with a regulated and controlled Internet 2 is manifestly provable.

"Bell Canada and TELUS (formerly owned by Verizon) employees officially confirm that by 2012 ISP�s all over the globe will reduce Internet access to a TV-like subscription model, only offering access to a small standard amount of commercial sites and require extra fees for every other site you visit. These �other� sites would then lose all their exposure and eventually shut down, resulting in what could be seen as the end of the Internet," warns a report that has spread like wildfire across the web over the last few days.

The article, which is accompanied by a You Tube clip, states that Time Magazine writer "Dylan Pattyn" has confirmed the information and is about to release a story - and that the move to effectively shut down the web could come as soon as 2010.

Watch the clip.

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People have raised questions about the report�s accuracy because the claims are not backed by another source, only the "promise" that a Time Magazine report is set to confirm the rumor. Until such a report emerges many have reserved judgment or outright dismissed the story as a hoax.

What is documented, as the story underscores, is the fact that TELUS� wireless web package allows only restricted pay-per-view access to a selection of corporate and news websites. This is the model that the post-2012 Internet would be based on.

People have noted that the authors of the video seem to be more concerned about getting people to subscribe to their You Tube account than fighting for net neutrality by prominently featuring an attractive woman who isn�t shy about showing her cleavage. The vast majority of the other You Tube videos hosted on the same account consist of bizarre avante-garde satire skits on behalf of the same people featured in the Internet freedom clip. This has prompted many to suspect that the Internet story is merely a stunt to draw attention to the group.

Whether the report is accurate or merely a crude hoax, there is a very real agenda to restrict, regulate and suffocate the free use of the Internet and we have been documenting its progression for years.

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 reported 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 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 in 2006 that, "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."

Over the past few years, a chorus of propaganda intended to demonize the Internet and further lead it down a path of strict control has spewed forth from numerous establishment organs:

* Time magazine reported last year that researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the system whereby users cannot be tracked and traced all the time.

The projects echo moves we have previously reported on to clamp down on internet neutrality and even to designate a new form of the internet known as Internet
2.

* In a display of bi-partisanship, there have recently been calls for all
out mandatory ISP snooping on all US citizens by both Democrats and Republicans alike.
*
The White House�s own recently de-classified
strategy for "winning the war on terror" targets Internet conspiracy theories as a recruiting ground for terrorists and threatens to "diminish" their influence.
*
The Pentagon recently announced its effort to infiltrate
the Internet and propagandize for the war on terror.
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In a speech last October, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."
His solution is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by Homeland Security personnel which will go into operation next year.
*
The U.S. Government wants to force bloggers and online grassroots activists to register and regularly report their activities to Congress. Criminal charges including a possible jail term of up to one year could be the punishment for non-compliance.
*
A landmark legal case on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations seeks to criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web - and their argument is supported by the U.S. government.
*
A landmark legal ruling in Sydney goes further than ever before in setting the trap door for the destruction of the Internet as we know it and the end of alternative news websites and blogs by creating the precedent that simply linking to other websites is breach of copyright and piracy.
*
The European Union, led by former Stalinist and potential future British Prime Minister John Reid, has also vowed to shut down "terrorists" who use the Internet to spread propaganda.
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The EU data retention bill, passed last year after much controversy and with implementation tabled for late 2007, obliges telephone operators and internet service providers to store information on who called who and who emailed who for at least six months. Under this law, investigators in any EU country, and most bizarrely even in the US, can access EU citizens� data on phone calls, SMS messages, emails and instant messaging services.
*
The EU also recently proposed legislation that would prevent users from uploading any form of video without a license.
* The US government is also funding research into social networking sites and how to gather and store personal data published on them, according to the New Scientist magazine. "At the same time, US lawmakers are attempting to force the social networking sites themselves to control the amount and kind of information that people, particularly children, can put on the sites."

The development of a new form of internet with new regulations is also designed to create an online caste system whereby the old internet hubs would be allowed to break down and die, forcing people to use the new taxable, censored and regulated world wide web.

Make no mistake, the internet, one of the greatest outposts of free speech ever created is under constant attack by powerful people who cannot operate within a society where information flows freely and unhindered. Both American and European moves mimic stories we hear every week out of state controlled Communist China, where the internet is strictly regulated and virtually exists as its own entity away from the rest of the web.

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 their populations under tyranny by eliminating the right to protest and educate others by the forum of
the free world wide web.

Yeah, and they said we'd be paying $4 a gallon for gas, too.

umm, wait ...........

Let's see ...

Ridiculously expensive gas eventually
forces people to remain within a 10 to
20 mile radius of their home for work,
shopping and entertainment.
This restriction limits the number of
people they see and socialize with as well.

If it weren't for the internet, they would
then be limited by our 'state controlled'
TV news networks for any news outside
their limited travel radius, with no REAL
way to fact check.

Yup, I can see why our corporate controlled
government needs to gain control of the
last true free speech venue.

I really wish there was a way to stop this,
but i'm afraid none of us are rich enough
to make a difference.

Sometimes I REALLY hope that my time
is coming soon.

Well, there's always pirate radio.

IMHO it's a bullshit. After all if the big ISPs start to resrtict access (if it's lawful at all - in Poland I think ISP has NO right to restrict anything), new companies will come about, that will offer unlimited access, and the monopolyits will lose their customers. It would be a shoot in the foot to TELUS etc.
Also, in the absence of commercial ISPs, people may start just dragging cables from house to house, from flat to flat, etc. That's how we managed this in Poland , coping with the total absence of commercial ISP companies in the 1990s. There was no broadband internet for private users at all, even ISDN: only an expensive 56600 bps modems and telephone lines.
Today there are more possibilities, as building the thick networks of WiFi hosts, which will communicate with one another, totally distributed, totally dispersed, totally uncontrollable by authorities.
Also, in Poland average the Internet user changes his/her ISP 2-3 times a year, because there's a number of competing companies that offer several discounts; therefore, when the discount offer at one ISP ends, most of people switch to another one.
It's almost impossible to imagine that someone could RESTRICT anything here.
And the folks from Heimatsschutz (Homeland Security; yes, this name IS based on the one of the office of 3rd Reich) are stupid as usually
Greet those dumbs from me if you can

Critto, long time, no see. Greetings!

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His solution is "intelligence fusion centers," staffed by Homeland Security personnel which will go into operation next year.

Intelligence fusion centers? WTF?

• Time magazine reported last year that researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over... right after they finish shredding what's left of the Constitution.

A landmark legal case on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations seeks to criminalize all Internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web - and their argument is supported by the U.S. government.

Please direct me to this landmark legal case, as I certainly have not heard of it.

" Please direct me to this landmark legal case, as I certainly have not heard of it. "

I am guessing that they are referring to the
Jannie Thomas case ... the only case they
have ever had a victory.

The problem is they are conveniently
forgetting to mention the fact that this
'Landmark Case' could be overturned
by the judges own admission of a
mistake.

This is precisely why we can NEVER rely
on corporate owned media alone for
correct COMPLETE information.

Sigh . Jammie ....

MY ship for a spellcheck.

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/ise/guidelines.pdf

Wow, the things we never hear about eh?

Scary stuff:

a) the Recording Industry Association of America and other global trade organizations seeking to criminalize all internet file sharing of any kind as copyright infringement, effectively shutting down the world wide web -- and their argument is supported by the U.S. government . . .

b) 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 their populations under tyranny by eliminating the right to protest and educate by the forum of the free world-wide web . . .

It sounds ominous and ... uh... pessimistic.
(I'm pissed but don't know how we'll stop the scenario from unfolding.)

While we're on the subject, there is another can of worms about to be let loose..The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/16117

This too was said to be unheard of...yet we are indeed hearing more and more of this nightmare.

Good find, pepe.
The article was written by Michael Geist.

"Key concerns including greater Internet service provider filtering of content, heightened liability for websites that link to allegedly infringing content, and diminished privacy for Internet users."

"With the ACTA speculation at a fever pitch, there is a sense that both the U.S. and European Union are anxious to conclude negotiations by the end of the year."

"Canadian officials should express reservations about this aggressive timeline and insist that all parties open ACTA to the public now."


Should, but will try not to. They know many of the nefarious, draconian provisions they are considering wouldn't survive open scrutiny. The dirty rats.

(BTW: That article by Michael Geist deserves its own news post here at our website.)

Something tells me theres going to be a lot of loaded pen drives flying around...

I believe they will try to shut down the Internet most definitely. That
is definitely their design. However, when you consider the Internet;
design + intent rarely = result.

The 'original' Internet doesn't not look a thing like it was designed to
look like. It's creators will laugh or spin in their graves to see all
the porno and snark in their cerebral higher
education/military/research net.

An example of design + intent not = result. The death of Napster didn't
end filetrading. Filetrading after Napster is at an all time high.

We will have the corporate net 2.0. We will probably also at the same
time have the other net, the older, freer, wilder net accessed via sneak
tech and 'pirates'. Those free, snarky, politically incorrect blogs
will be accessable by some technology in 2012. Either that tech hasn't
been invented yet or I am unaware of it. All I do know is, change and
challenge is the watch word, nothing stays the same. Today, pen drives
the size of pens carry gigs of data. 'Pirate' may yet be a synonim for
'Robin Hood of Free Thought.'

There are technologies yet to be invented in 2012 that may make
accessing Free Web possible with out needing an ISP.

Remember, they once said that the modern DVD was pirate proof.

Some Bytes For Thought

Re: "secret plan to kill the internet by 2012"

The year 2012 -- the end of the Mayan calendar (accompanied by some serious trauma)?