The Internet has been free....until now.

The Internet has been largely free and has opened up a wider circle of
communications and dialogue for everybody. But there has
been an increasing trend to charge people accessing
sites .Also news sites are preparing to charge people
accessing their webpages. Yes this trend is escalating
quickly and I can foresee that it will result in a
marked downturn in internet usage. I live on a
disability pension and certainly cannot afford accessing commercial for profit websites.This makes me question if the
proposed National Broadband Network with extremely
fast broadband speeds, will be viable. Another Rudd
white elephant?

Robin 0540 UTC May 6th. 2010