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2012: The Year The Internet Ends

Friday, 13 June 2008

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.

Dylan Pattyn *, who is currently writing an article for Time Magazine on the issue, has official confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and is interviewing a marketing representative from TELUS who confirms the story and states that TELUS has already started blocking all websites that aren't in the subscription package for mobile Internet access. They could not confirm whether it would happen in 2012 because both stated it may actually happen sooner (as early as 2010). Interviews with these sources, more confirmation from other sources and more in-depth information on the issue is set to be published in Time Magazine soon.

What can we do?

The reason why we're releasing this information is because we believe we can stop it. More awareness means more mainstream media shedding light on it, more political interest and more pressure on the ISP's to keep the Internet an open free space. We started this social network as a platform for Internet activism where we can join forces, share ideas and organize any form of protest that may have an impact. If we want to make a difference in this, we have to join together and stand united as one powerful voice against it.

Join the movement.

For more information:

Mail the I Power team at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

The previous news item on the information leak (which quickly became one of the biggest Internet news items of the year)

For media inquiries or urgent issues only:
I Power
Telephone: +32 (0) 496 93 90 44

Dylan Pattyn (writing for Time Magazine)
Telephone:1-514-567-7510

linkback: http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality2

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Admin

|2008-06-13 17:31:30

We should perhaps wait for that Time Magazine article, if such is in the works, before getting too worked up...

Gundar Veebor - Bandwidth

|2008-06-19 10:48:52

That video you're watching just might break the internet
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive...

18 June 2008 21:18 by Rich "vurbal" Fiscus

That video you're watching just might break the internet Do you use your broadband internet connection for video? If so you might partly responsible for "breaking" the internet within the next few years according to more than half of the 372 telecommunications professionals surveyed by Tellabs and research firm IDC. More than 10% think it will happen within the next 2 years...