ISPs confirm '2012: The Year The Internet Ends'

It's such bullshit to make up a specific year. This stuff is the most egregious propaganda.

I find it hard to believe that the telcos will succeed on this issue in the United States. Especially because they're also morphing into content providers, it's hard to see this as anything but an antitrust issue.

I think what's more likely is that if the situation gets this dire, we'll see lawsuits and legislation. There are too many powerful content providers (especially in the US) with a vested interest in seeing that nothing like this ever happens.

I'm not sure how seriously to take this, yes its pretty scary but can't help thinking:

* Wouldn't this fall foul of anti-cartel laws, could all the ISPs get together and decide to limit what they sell without the government objecting?

* What's to stop someone starting their own ISP and not restricting access, could the network providers refuse to sell bandwidth to them?

* They're limiting supply to something artificially in order to boost the price. Unless I'm mistaken and it somehow costs less to only serve Facebook and MSN, there's big incentive for one of the ISPs to break ranks and offer unlimited access without it costing extra.

* What about mash-ups? My Google desktop wouldn't work if all the other sites that serve content to it were blocked. How would they explain that to their customers?

What do others think? Is this realistic threat?

Guys, this is one of Athene's works. (http://www.youtube.com/user/AtheneWins) He makes a good argument, and net neutrality is a real thing, but this, guys, is Athene, the "best paladin in the world." You shouldn't take it too seriously.

sigh