Free Internet?

[a ginger491]

DISCLAIMER: THIS DISCUSSION APPLIES TO POLICIES IN THE UNITED STATES

I was thinking that since the internet is becoming more and more a necessity in this current age that it may be possible that, like highways, TV (sort of), and radio, the world wide web will soon be one of those things that we will pay taxes to keep it running but otherwise get free from the government. It would have many problems to it including bum fucking cable companies and the possibility of the FCC censoring everything but I think it may be possible and as I said before it is becoming more of a need every day so it may in fact need to become a public domain. So I want to hear your ideas on how this can work or why it wouldn't work and the obstacles in the way, how to over come them and so on. I think we can do it without changing the internet into a censored and super regulated shadow of what it is now.

 

[a ginger491]

There would be a few advantages to this, as far as I can see: You could say goodbye to internet pornography, which would go a long way in curing that loathsome, depraved view that people seem to have got about sex in the recent decades.

Everything else about this would not be a good idea. Logistical nightmares would ensue.

Logistical nightmares? can you go into detail?

 

[Aris Khandr]

which would go a long way in curing that loathsome, depraved view that people seem to have got about sex in the recent decades.

Just out of curiosity, which "loathsome, depraved view of sex" is that?

 

[BRex21]

I'm From Manitoba, where we HAD government run internet, it wasnt free mind you and was run pretty much like any other internet provider, but the lack of competition meant they could provide dick all for service and charge just as much as anyone else.
Even now that the MTS banner is no longer a monopoly, most other providers dont have the infrastructure and people like me are stuck with terrible networks, I am currently using a Circ. 1998 Nortel 1Meg ADSL Modem and plan to switch to Shaw the minute they bring service to my area.
The government just does not have the drive to run service companies the way the private sector does when the issues are seen as minor like this, and while they are busy managing important issues they let the services dwindle and they dont have to worry about you switching providers. Its not a good route to go.