[Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may bring it

[Matthew Theobald]

Hi All,

See David Isenberg's Isen Blog for good sources and such on this topic.
http://www.isen.com/blog
This is NOT related to the ISEN project below.  (Though I share his
sentiments.)

Yours,

Matthew

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Web4lib] "The end of the Internet", and the telecoms may
> bring it
> From: Maurice York <maurice.york at emory.edu>
> Date: Tue, February 07, 2006 3:22 pm
> To: Web4Lib <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> 
> After reading this article, I'm somewhat speechless. I don't even know how
> to summarize it efficiently. You just have to read it, I suppose. There's
> been so much talk that Google or some variant conglomeration (Googlezon
> anyone?) would take over the world and control everything we do, and here
> the telecoms have been quietly conspiring to actually legislate that and so
> much more for themselves. And this is coming from The Nation, so I can't
> just explode it as hyperbole or overblown myth....perhaps someone else can
> <*looks around hopefully*>?
> *
> 'The End of the Internet?'*
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester
> 
> -Maurice
> 
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