Wave Bye-Bye to the Internet.

As I've mentioned before being an totalitarian regime Britain despises the Internet because it makes it much harder for the state to control the flow of information. Therefore it will be trying to use the 2012 Olympics to drive through global agreement on significantly restricting the Internet.

Today (31/7/12) marks their big push with a House of Lords committee criticising government plans to upgrade the nations physical communications infrastructure for being focused on connection speed rather then geographical reach. Of course raising the issue of a national Internet infrastructure raises all the technical aspects of what actually makes the Internet work. However a government pushing for geographical spread provides the Internet Service Providers (ISP) with the perfect argument to insisting on the end of net neutrality. The argument being that if the ISP's are forced to build a large network over a wide area they will be need to be granted the right to control the flow of data across that network in order to ensure connection speeds at peak times. From there it's just a small step from you no longer being able to access the whole Internet and instead only being able to access the bits of the Internet included on the package your ISP sells to you in much the same way you can currently only access to the certain TV channels that are included as part of your PayTV package.

Continuing on the theme today a 17 year old boy has been arrested in Weymouth, Dorset for sending a Tweet to TeamGB diver Tom Daley telling him that he'd let down his dead father after he failed to win a medal in yesterday's (30/7/12) world 10m platform event. This will be dubbed an example of "trolling" although that's strictly speaking accurate and will be used to promote discussion about what new powers can be given to governments and corporations to persecute people who say things they don't like about them on the Internet. Having read the comments in question I have to say that while they were unpleasent they were in no-way criminal regardless of what the current British law may say.

Incidentally while I'm on the subject the 2012 Opening ceremony featured Sir Tim Berners-Lee who Britain claim invented the Internet in the 1990's. This had anyone with any experience of the Internet rolling on the floor laughing their heads off and the USA's NBC's coverage pretending not to know who he was. That's because everybody knows that the Internet was actually developed by US military engineers in the 1960's as a redundent communications system to work in the event of a nuclear attack.