DamianTV
12-24-2015, 02:15 PM
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/internet-freedom-is-actively-dissolving-in-america
The article is mostly about people dropping home internet and using cell phones only.
It’s the end of 2015, and one fact about the internet is quickly becoming clear this year: Americans’ freedom to access the open internet is rapidly dissolving.
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Many Americans may soon be left with an insecure, surveilled, and capped internet connection dominated by broadband and cellular providers that funnel traffic to the companies they’ve made deals with
The problem is that smartphone internet is not equivalent to home internet. Pew didn’t collect this information, but an unlimited mobile data plan in the United States is increasingly endangered and exceedingly rare. The 3 percent of Americans who have cut their broadband cord in the last two years replaced it with a mobile connection that limits how much they access the internet.
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Full article on link.
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The internet is quickly turning into a handful of gatekeepers who shape the minds of all the people whose information flow thru them. If it comes thru them, it must be true, but if you cant find it on one of these gatekeepers, then it doesnt exist. Pure propoganda.
The stupidification of America continues, and people go for it.
The article is mostly about people dropping home internet and using cell phones only.
It’s the end of 2015, and one fact about the internet is quickly becoming clear this year: Americans’ freedom to access the open internet is rapidly dissolving.
...
Many Americans may soon be left with an insecure, surveilled, and capped internet connection dominated by broadband and cellular providers that funnel traffic to the companies they’ve made deals with
The problem is that smartphone internet is not equivalent to home internet. Pew didn’t collect this information, but an unlimited mobile data plan in the United States is increasingly endangered and exceedingly rare. The 3 percent of Americans who have cut their broadband cord in the last two years replaced it with a mobile connection that limits how much they access the internet.
...
Full article on link.
---
The internet is quickly turning into a handful of gatekeepers who shape the minds of all the people whose information flow thru them. If it comes thru them, it must be true, but if you cant find it on one of these gatekeepers, then it doesnt exist. Pure propoganda.
The stupidification of America continues, and people go for it.