Subject: BBS affected by Internet Fast Lanes?   
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     Re: BBS affected by Internet Fast Lanes?   
     By: physalis17 to All on Wed Nov 12 2014 07:59 am   
      
    > Hey guys,   
    >    
    > I am new here and have a question regarding bulletin board systems. The   
    > president is now fully supporting net neutrality which I think is a good thi   
    > and it is upsetting the ISPs. However, if the next president likes the ISPs    
    > wants Internet Fast Lanes, will that really affect BBS? Is the BBS invulnera   
    > to these ISPs since this technology has been around for decades and from the   
    > BBS documentry I saw, we are talking only needing baud speed connections. No   
    > to mention that BBS like this one aren't graphical so how would say Comcast    
    > COX put up warning images to make you pay more to view more pages?   
    >    
      
   You'd be surprised at how many places COX manages to weasel images into,   
   they've got their filthy 8==) thumbs all over the place. Comcast is a much more   
   brutal ISP however, and they will monitor you sending you a message if   
   necessary.  It may start as an email, but it might escalate to ISIS level scare   
   tactics should the problem specifically or generally get out of hand.   
      
   They are already watching and beaming all the data via laser onto a giant hard   
   drive on the moons surface, all data, everywhere.  Who's in power is just an   
   illuminati facade and certain laws only apply to certain classes of hackers;   
   bbs's will be the last bastion of freedom for those who can spread their data   
   all over the moon such that a destruction of the lunar index file in the 9   
   expected backup centers will nearly erase any potential trace of detecting the   
   meaning in the data.  Generating white noise at the proper frequencies with   
   appropriate filters/keys will allow you to operate even as the ISP's bombard   
   with you with un-needed junk-male or make veiled threats on your person.  It   
   can never hurt to wear a tinfoil hat and at the very least carry a katana   
   blade.   
      
   Seriously though, I'm joking - although some people may find it compelling   
   explanation.  If you've got a basic home subscription on one of those ISP's   
   some people these days do have just an understanding of the internet being   
   going on the web and browsing and having the shit that they buy work.  Anyhow,   
   in a way you just could set a bare minimum of services as far as what people   
   expect.  You start with the assumption that people have no service whatsoever   
   and go from there.  Then they get service, what do you give them access to   
   accept incoming and outgoing connections, is that contingent on a limit and if   
   so what determines that limit if needed, let's say how much you pay.  This is   
   already the case in certain circumstances, but I guess it could get taken to an   
   extreme.  Maybe something like any open port below 1024 cost a bunch of money   
   to open or wasn't be able to open period.  Then you could have some sort   
   oligarchy of have's and have nots who could afford to run their own web server,   
   making stupid companies more powerful.  If the ISP's thought the BBS's were a   
   threat to their dominance monetarily they surely could and would take measures   
   to increase their bottom line were it substantial.   
      
   I'm actually extremely uninformed on the issue as far as reading up goes, so   
   I'm shooting from the hip here, just winging it basically.  I'm a moron.   
      
   cheers,   
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