This right there is the part that scares me. There's the main motivation to shut it all down I would think. Since the big bad guys don't like free speech, and have the power and money to change things, the internet could very well be a target.
i see this thread is 4 months old now, and no Time article has ever come out yet! To think these kids fresh out of school on the video are privy to such "sensitive" information is laughable. The only person who would dare try this is Rupert Murdoch. Even he would fail miserably.
Why would they shut down the Internet anyhow? They (the bad guys) can track what everybody is doing more thoroughly and perfectly now without even leaving comfort of the office. The Internet is the perfect bad guy tool.
This would mean the world economy crashing. Especially in such such notice "it leaked" which means the ISPS werent going to let us know for another 3 years? Comon guys seriously...
This is BS. Don't just think about all the commercial uses of internet but also the educational uses. We would literally become a dumber society as a result of this.
This might happen 50 years from now maybe but we would need a 50 year notice so that it doesn't effect the economy nor the society as much. This will not happen from a leaked source 4 years from now. Let us be realistic.
Interesting commercial idea, but that's not possible. In 2012, all Internet service providers and all websites start to use IP6, which means there will be much more spaces and more authorities obtained by regional and independent ISP and website owners to develop freely. Now there are already many free websites, and there will be much more free websites from 2012.
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