It’s your right to read this.

      …and anything else you please. However, certain internet service providers (ISPs) like Comcast are in steady progression leading toward their relentless attempts to control user received content. In layman’s terms, they choose the internet for you. This is nothing too stark or drastic, yet it is still limiting it’s subscribers. This specefic event is documented in an article located on NetworkWorld, found here:

 Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.

Now, regulation of information is nothing new, but it is just new to this field. More specifically, this field in relation the the United States. I can personally state that in it’s humble world-wide birth the internet was (and still is) limiting user access to many different sites. From my personal stay in China for just under a year, I recount that only a hand full of sites were made available (but it’s alright, I could still play Everquest, and since then China has removed most of those restrictions). I don’t believe regulation of the internet should be tolerated, however I won’t be getting up out of my seat to do anything about it. Seek security knowing that in this nation, you’re allowed to proliferate any and all discriminations and disgusts and still lie within the law. Find comfort knowing that greater freedoms than the internet have stood the test, and remain free to this day. So long as the rights and laws which uphold the freedom represented in the Internet do not fault, crack, or whither, the Web will remain free.

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