Web inventor warns of 'dark' net (BBC) {Berners-Lee disses telco plans}

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By Jonathan Fildes
BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh

The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said.

Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh.

He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".
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But telecoms companies in the US do not agree. They would like to implement a two-tier system, where data from companies or institutions that can pay are given priority over those that cannot.
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The internet community believes this threatens the open model of the internet as broadband providers will become gatekeepers to the web's content.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5009250.stm

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1. It totally threatens the open model and there is no excuse for it.

I mean, paying for throughput or speed is fine, so long as its accessible to the individual, and the end consumer can choose these things for themselves...But the talk going on now is much creepier, its all about corporate control.