The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Sounds like it would make a cool video game or movie.

But, this isn't about that.

This is about the Internet.

It seems the inventor of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, is as cheesed off as I am about governments trying to control the web.

"He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period".

From this blogger's (and heck, just plain ol' web surfer's) perspective, creating restrictions will really discourage usage.

I thrill at searching for something and then ending up finding something else completely different and unexpected, but it turns out to be an absolutely wonderful find.

Oftentimes, the best sh*t I share on my blog comes from "happy accidents".

I realise, though, that this is ONLY a way for governments to profit off a potential market for them.

Whatever.

Don't they get enough of our money?

In addition, companies like telecoms, who I'm sure have lost some revenue since the booming Internet industry,

"would like to implement a two-tier system, where data from companies or institutions that can pay are given priority over those that cannot."

But, there has been some movement by computer-based companies to prevent the two tier Internet system from arising:

companies like Microsoft and Google have called for legislation to be introduced to guarantee net neutrality.

This is the gist of it and something that I wouldn't like to see happen, but may be inevitable:

A two-tier system would mean that people would only have full access to those portions of the internet that they paid for and that some companies would be given priority over others.

(aw come on, you can't expect me to go through a whole article on web surfing without bringing up pornography)