By 2012 Internet Service Providers around the world

will reduce Internet access to a TV cable or satellite

subscription model, only offering access to a small

standard number of commercial sites and require

extra fees for every other site you visit

Will this be the future of the Internet

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2012: The Year The Internet Ends [Source]

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.

They will only offer 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?

Internet providers have realized that the only way to not lose massive amounts of customers over this is to make sure there are no alternatives, that's why all major Internet providers are currently making agreements and planning to switch simultaneously somewhere in the year 2012.

This is currently all going on under very strict NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements) because the last thing they want is the masses speaking out against it.

We were able to uncover this information because we have been well-known net neutrality activists for longer than a year now and over time have we've gotten in contact with many high-profile industry insiders.

We will continue our activism and the I Power website serves as a platform for joining forces, sharing ideas and spreading awareness.

It's our responsibility to spread the word, use any sort of political or media contacts you may know.

The more awareness there is, the more impossible it'll be for Internet providers to make this switch.

Let's make sure that by 2012, ISP's won't even dare think about doing anything that goes against the principles of net neutrality.

More info...

Net neutrality has been a much debated issue for several years now and there have been many lawsuits in cases where an Internet provider blocked access to a certain competitor's site or simply crippled download speeds on services that they felt were using up too much of their bandwidth.

But this new information that has now been confirmed by inside sources from major ISP's and content providers gives us a far bleaker vision of what the future of Internet freedom will look like if we don't take action in every way we can.

Why is this happening? The entire media and marketing industry is losing its grip on the upcoming generations of Internet-minded consumers.

Statistics show that traditional media is losing popularity as the Internet continues to grow drastically every year.

And the Internet is a completely different place: consumers aren't passive any more and advertisements don't have the same psychological effect they normally have on television.

Internet users are very active and focused: they only go to the sites and services they want, and with an infinite amount of alternatives, users simply switch to something else if one service becomes too commercialized with annoying advertisements.

With this in mind, it's no surprise that the past 6 years the industry has secretly been planning a 'take-over' to secure the Internet as a purely commercial playground.

Spread The Word

But there is hope... More and more people are becoming aware of the importance of net neutrality and now that we have uncovered what the industries have been plotting.

It's not just about big corporations forming shady agreements, it's about what they will say to their users who will demand an explanation from their providers on what will happen to their access in 2012.

As long as there are alternatives, we can pressure those providers who admit to being against net neutrality and favor those who take a stand and choose to give their users their freedom even after 2012.

We can keep pushing for net neutrality laws and we can start spreading awareness on a massive scale to make sure that ISP's think twice before signing anything that'll go against the freedom that made the Internet into the important open medium that it is today.

It's our responsibility, spread the word and use any sort of political or media contacts you may know. Let's make sure that by 2012, ISP's won't even dare think about doing anything that goes against the principles of net neutrality.

Internet Is Seen As Impeding New World Order Agenda [Source]

A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global.

Bell Canada and TELUS, Canada's two largest Internet service providers (ISPs), will begin charging per-site fees on most Internet sites, reports reliable sources within TELUS [2012 also coincides with the planned full launching of the so-called "North American Union"].

"It's beyond censorship: it is killing the biggest "ecosystem" of free expression and freedom of speech that has ever existed," I Power spokesperson Reese Leysen said.

I Power was the first group to report on the possible changes. Bell Canada has not returned calls or emails.

The plans made by the large telecom businesses would change the Internet into a cable-like system, where customers sign up for specific web sites, and must pay to see each individual site beyond a certain point.

Subscription browsing would be limited, extra fees would be applied to access out-of-network sites. Many sites, in a bid toward further fascist censorship, would be blocked altogether.

We had inside sources from bigger companies who gave us the information on how exclusivity deals are being made at this moment between ISPs and big content providers (like TV production studios and major video game publishers).

They will decide which web sites will be in the standard package offered to their customers, leaving all the rest of the Internet unreachable unless you pay extra subscription fees per every non-standard site you visit, Leysen said.

We knew the source to be 100% reliable, but we also knew the story would be highly controversial if we released the information.

We did it because we knew that we get more official confirmations once we come forward with it. And indeed that is what happened.

Dylan Pattyn, who is writing the soon-to-be published article for Time Magazine, received confirmation from sources within Bell Canada and TELUS after we released the information.

The plans would in effect be economic censorship, with only the top 100 to 200 sites making the cut in the initial subscription package.

Such plans would likely favor major news outlets and suppress smaller news outlets, as the major news outlets would be free (with subscription), and alternative news outlets, like AFP, would incur a fee for every visit.

The Internet would become a playground for billion-dollar content providers just like television is, unless the internet can be once again rescued, said Leysen.

It won't be possible for a few teenagers in their parents basement to start a small site like E-bay that then grows out to be the next big thing anymore.

Right now the Internet belongs to those with the greatest ideas. In the future, it'll belong to those with the biggest budgets.

With plans in Canada uncovered, I Power thinks that companies in the United States and other nations are also planning similar actions.

By 2012 ISPs 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 as we know it, Leysen said.

Such a subscription plan could possibly restrict free speech far beyond even the current restrictions set by the governments of neo-fascist China.

Not only would browsing be limited, but privacy would be invaded, as every web site viewed would likely be recorded on a bill in a manner similar to a phone bill.

Why would the ISPs institute such a plan? One word: money. This new subscription model is commercially far more beneficial to them than how it is now, Leysen said.

If FOX wants to launch a new television show online, they'll have to pay big money to all major ISPs to ensure that their new show will be offered and pushed in the standard package of sites/services/channels that people will get through their Internet access.

Plus ISPs will also gain extra revenue out of people trying to access the rest of the Internet, as they'll pay extra subscription fees for every web site they visit. But it's not just the big ISPs that stand to gain.

Marketing and big budget content-pushing just doesn't seem to work on the Internet, and this is something that several industries want fixed.

ISPs know this and will benefit greatly by fixing this for the marketing and entertainment industry, Leysen said.

The ISPs are said to be confident they can institute such plans through deceptive marketing and fear tactics.

The Internet will be more and more marketed as a place full of child pornography and other horrible illegal activity in order to get people on their [the ISP side once they start restricting it and make it safer, Leysen said.

Unless we really make a stand for this and make sure that mainstream media thoroughly covers the issue, the whole thing will be eased in with proper marketing to make sure that most mainstream customers won't make a big deal out of it. They will only realize what was lost long after it's gone.