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Michael Black wrote
> zeez wrote
>> Lil Abner <@Daisey.Mae> wrote

>>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1352559/Canadians-forc...

>> I've always wondered why Canadians have it about as bad as
>> Austraiia when it comes to net access. Australia is phy$icaly
>> isolated so it somewhat understandable for them but Canada?

> Because too many bozos came late to the party.

That happens in every country, stupid.

> They all rushed to the Big ISPs, because by the time they got here, most
> of the small ISPs that had pioneered had been sold to something bigger,

That is a pig ignorant lie. There are HUNDREDS of them.

> and of course by then the telephone and cable companies had gotten into it.

Just like everywhere esle. Wota surprise.

> So people decided to go with the big companies, rather
> than the ISPs that represented the internet of the old.

> Those same people have no real clue of what the internet once was,
> because they came late enough that they saw something else.  The
> old was still there, but it was hidden, and the later arrivals didn't look.

Just like in EVERY other country. Guess again.

> Those are the people who believe in "Web 2.0", who think
> giving things away was invented with "freecycle", who think
> gmail is swell and can't see anything wrong with facebook.

Its what they prefer to use. You get to like that or lump it.


> There's is a very  different internet,

Just like in EVERY other country. Guess again.

> and they've helped to change it by being ignorant of
> what came before. They've let commerce run things.

Just like in EVERY other country. Guess again.

> I was with my first ISP for nine years.  It was the oldest local
> ISP and happened to be non-profit (likely for the simple reason
> that circa 1991 nobody could see making any money from it all).

Thats a pig ignorant lie.

> When they finally sold out, to a bigger non-profit, I moved to the second
> oldest local ISP which is now one of the few small ISPs remaining.

Thats another pig ignorant lie. There are HUNDREDS of them.

> When my first ISP dropped newsgroups, I started accessing them
> via the Ottawa Freenet, a concept most people are unaware of.
> They have no clue of what it was like to know about the internet
> and not have access because there was no way on locally.

Yeah, yeah, only you knows that it was like.

> ONce the masses came to the internet, it changed for the worse.

No one is holding a gun to your head a forcing you to use the bits of it you dont like, fool.

They do however provide the cash flow that sees the facilitys you want to use.

> I thought at the time it would mean people would change as they came to the internet,

More fool you.

> but sadly they simply decided things should be the way they want it.

And you get to like that or lump it.

> Once they gave power to those big commercial outfits,

They ddnt.

> they set the stage for what came later.

Nope, the hordes of naive users did.

You get to like that or lump it.