In light of the rampant ignorance related to the way the world of information really works today, I wanted to post these glaring examples demonstrating how corporations manipulate the flow of information in order to serve their own interests.

Keep in mind that these examples are only ones that have been exposed.

No organization is more guilty of this than the U.S. government, NIH, NCI, PP, NCAHF, Quackwatch, CDC, and many others.


* In October 2007, the Associated Press busted Comcast for blocking its users' access to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks like BitTorrent and Gnutella. This fraudulent practice is a glaring violation of Net Neutrality.

* In September 2007, Verizon was caught banning pro-choice text messages. After a New York Times expose, the phone company reversed its policy, claiming it was a glitch.

* In August 2007, AT&T censored a live webcast of a Pearl Jam concert just as lead singer Eddie Vedder criticized President Bush.

* In 2006, Time Warner's AOL blocked all emails that mentioned www.dearaol.com -- an advocacy campaign opposing the company's pay-to-send e-mail scheme.

* In 2005, Canada's telephone giant Telus blocked customers from visiting a Web site sympathetic to the Telecommunications Workers Union during a contentious labor dispute.

* In 2004, North Carolina ISP Madison River blocked their DSL customers from using any rival Web-based phone service.

* Shaw, a major Canadian cable, internet, and telephone service company, intentionally downgrades the "quality and reliability" of competing Internet-phone services that their customers might choose -- driving customers to their own phone services not through better services, but by rigging the marketplace.


Source:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/=threat