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| The Grand Scheme - Alex Jones; Shutting Down the Net | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 5 2009, 05:58 PM (467 Views) | |
| mynameis | Feb 5 2009, 05:58 PM Post #1 |
Internet Jujitsu
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Edited by mynameis, Feb 5 2009, 05:58 PM.
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| Mick | Mar 7 2009, 12:38 AM Post #2 |
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Major companies blocking info wars? Who? He says major companies are censoring on a massive scale, but who is doing it? Internet providers are only going to allow a couple thousands of sites? Sounds rather stupid to me. No one is going to pay to advertise on any internet that is only a couple of thousand sites strong. “Comcast just got told Friday that they have to stop doing what they are doing; filtering out the majority of the web, and they say they are going to disregard the FCC…..” Anyone here think his claim that the majority of the web is being filtered out by Comcast is the truth? I didn’t All the major pundits are calling for his (Alex Jones) arrest? What a grandiose fool!  They (who?) are censoring us everywhere? More hyperbole. Well I made it about half way through then I had to stop. Did it get any better in the last half of the video?
Edited by Mick, Mar 7 2009, 12:39 AM.
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| JFK | Mar 13 2009, 10:42 PM Post #3 |
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Since you are not in the UK, obviously you are blind to this. Have you not clicked on a youtube and had the "This video is not available in your country" error yet ? If not, you will as I have personally seen that message 5 times in the past month and have had to use proxy servers to get around it. You tell me who is deciding what to censor. |
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| UKperspective | Mar 14 2009, 08:54 AM Post #4 |
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I have personally never witnessed a notice saying "this content unavailable in your country" from any of my UK ISPs. However it is well known in the computer industry that the explosion of video content is overwhelming the bandwidth of the creaking UK infrastructure. All the major UK Broadcasting Companies have, or are about to have iPlayers to catch up with their TV programmes. This is causing so much increase to the internet traffic that ISPs in some cases are throttling back the connection speeds of heavy users so that the service doesn't degrade for the users who are more moderate. You could argue that all this is a government plan, but working in the computer industry I can tell you that the problem is more to do with the exponential growth of users demanding video content. Remember that most people had extremely slow dial up connections only 10 years ago, broadband connections have only been common in the last 7 or 8 years. And now that video content is being pushed on mobile phones as well, the data throughput required from the web servers to the end user is putting the internet at melting point. Especially when you consider that most connections are still carried to consumers' property on bellwire which is basically technology from the 1800s. |
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