What does the iPhone have to do with the future of the Internet? The Internet is going the way of the dodo because were concerned about a product?

No, the Internet is doomed because a certain past president sold off the backbone to telecoms and cable companies. Now they are spending a lot of time trying to figure out how to make money off the Internet. Never-mind that once again they missed the boat and allowed a company like Google to make all their money. So what are they going to do? Bring in metered access. You already pay your $50 for broadband access but in the future you will be limited to probably about 5 to 10 gigs of downloaded access. After that you will pay dearly for your access.

This will benefit the government. How? For years they have been trying to pass censorship laws but the Supreme Court has been in the way. The Court has continually stated that due to the nature of the Internet: a mass communication tool that is a many to many tool that allows anyone to participate. Then there should be no censorship in the United States. With metered access not everyone will be able to afford to use the Internet like they do today. That means it stops being a many to many communication tool and becomes he standard one to many tool like television is today. I can see websites charging for premium access so that people to view them without hurting their quotas. Will the telecoms stop censorship? Not if it doesn't hurt their bottom line.

The solution to all of this is very simple. WiFi - not the kind that other companies are putting into place but the ones the consumer do. Think on this, you have a wireless router, most people are buying them because they like their Internet in any room. The range on them is always increasing. How about a router with a firewall, web server, e-mail server, and DNS server built in. Then open those routers to each other but have the firewall deny access from and external source to the home computer that is connected to the router. Protect the consumer but allow the routers to route information between themselves.

If the Internet is nothing more then a series of interconnected computer systems so that bits of information can be routed in any direction through the computers to reach a destination then why were backbones created, speed, by creating more centralized and larger backbones it increased the speed but limited the transmission of those bits. With a consumer WiFi system that is fast the bits are freed and the individual routers will route the bits not through the telecoms backbones but through the neighbors system. This way you recreate the original Internet of interconnected systems. If you can have a neighborhood of consumers to interconnect this way then the back bones are only needed for distances between the neighborhoods but with metered access. Consumers would then start pushing for and hardware vendors creating products with a wider range so that consumers don't have to depend on the back bones. In fact it why would we need ISPs at all?

This makes you think: Since you're using the back bones less than maybe the telecoms will see the light and stop metered access...nah that will never happen. Well, maybe the government will stop metered access because they are supposed to protect the public...nah that will never happen. If you want change then you have to create change. At least with these mini-servers you build them on all open hardware and software. And make them open. How can the government sensor them? How can the telecoms touch them? Imagine VoIP, gaming, YouTube, and the future apps of the web accessible to everyone without having to worry about did I go over my monthly limit. The future of Internet does depend on openness but openness of architecture not of product. The future of the Internet is being wrested out of the hands of everyone and into the pocket books of a few companies. That is not right and that is what needs to be stopped.

The iPhone has little to do with that. Free the Net!

I'd have to say those crazy Iranian kids. What's funny is that this prank would probably have elicited a similar response from conservatives if it happened in the United States, in the bible belt. And you would hear a similar kid saying the same thing but in English.

We are all not that different, regardless of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation and identity.

If the governments of the world actually believed that maybe Earth wouldn't be in danger of becoming the next Mars, or Venus.