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shakatanyI just discovered this very intriguing Africander fic by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nemo_gravis called Light-blinded. Xander is MIA in Africa and who comes looking for him--Buffy and Tony Harris! I rarely come across TH doing anything but abusing Xander so this makes an interesting change.
Gakked this fromspikedluv who got it from someone else. It's an article called The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester and published in The Nation. I asked a friend about it who's a bit more in the know and he replied "Some of what he talks about is directionally possible, but I'd say he's being somewhat alarmist. In the short-to-medium term the worst-case scenario is probably that the access providers who control the pipes will succeed in charging major content providers more to deliver their content over the Internet, the costs of which will ultimately be passed along to the consumer (i.e., higher costs for you and me)." What is it with these people who want to despoil every good thing out there? Virgin wilderness--oh let's dig it up for oil. Beautiful mountains in West Virginia--let's level them for coal. Free internet--that's not good we must be able to charge for it. Mammon worshippers--boo hiss!
nemo_gravis called Light-blinded. Xander is MIA in Africa and who comes looking for him--Buffy and Tony Harris! I rarely come across TH doing anything but abusing Xander so this makes an interesting change.Gakked this from
spikedluv who got it from someone else. It's an article called The End of the Internet? by Jeff Chester and published in The Nation. I asked a friend about it who's a bit more in the know and he replied "Some of what he talks about is directionally possible, but I'd say he's being somewhat alarmist. In the short-to-medium term the worst-case scenario is probably that the access providers who control the pipes will succeed in charging major content providers more to deliver their content over the Internet, the costs of which will ultimately be passed along to the consumer (i.e., higher costs for you and me)." What is it with these people who want to despoil every good thing out there? Virgin wilderness--oh let's dig it up for oil. Beautiful mountains in West Virginia--let's level them for coal. Free internet--that's not good we must be able to charge for it. Mammon worshippers--boo hiss!
