We Don’t Need No Stinking Internet Provider

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April 17, 2006 • 12:50 pm PDT
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We know this whole network neutrality thing's fifteen minutes are totally up, but here is the latest development: maybe the rich websites (i.e. Google, Amazon, E-Bay, etc.) will just band together and buy their own internet lines, cut out the telecom middlemen who don't understand the basic principles on which the internet was founded, and give us their websites at blazing fast speeds, with no extra charge to anyone. It sounds so inspiring, we'll just keep believing it.

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