So yeah, looks like the new CEO of Virgin wants to shut down the free internet.

If you have no idea what a 'free internet' is, lemme give you a lowdown.

See, right now companies only make you pay for the internet connection you have. They advertise their companies by promising to give you faster connections. They cannot directly control what content is on the internet; they cannot block anything they don't like from human eyes on a web page.

BUT. They CAN control the speed of your internet connection.

And here is what Virgin is using to destroy freedom of information. See, they will allow faster speeds for ISPs who pay huge sums of cash while slowing down websites who don't pay. Thus, user base dwindles as sites become slower, ISPs lose money, and it becomes a self reinforcing loop into bankruptcy and shut down.

So, if your favorite website stops paying Virgin, their net connection gets slower. Slower means less functionality, less users, less ability to handle many users and eventual shutdown.

Now, let's look at a theoretical example. Corporation A is embezzling from its employees, and Person B finds out about it.

Person B posts documents showing the crime on the net, paying 5,000 bucks to do it.

Corporation A pays Virgin 10 million bucks to slow down the connection to that site hosting the documents until it is no longer viewable or a desirable source of info for viewers.

Game over, corporate totalitarianism wins.

Welcome to the age of total information control. Where all lanes of information transfer are controlled by megacorporations, and what you can read and think about is relegated to a handful of websites.

It's basically a worldwide dictatorship, because information transfer is a basic function of democracy. Taking that away means everyone in the world is subject only to what a corporation wants you to see.

We have to stop this trend. Tell everyone. Internet cannot be allowed to be controlled like Radio, TV, Newspapers and all other forms of media are controlled.