If it is a country with a single provider or maybe just two or three, then I'm against it as usually those are Government owned and that would mean dictatorship by default. If there are many providers that are almost equally powerful, then maybe it's not as wicked as it sounds. It may make for a better situation for the users as there would still be competition among them to keep them on the straight and narrow in interest of their users.
I basically really dislike any control, but get the feeling if the industry doesn't do it themselves, it will give Government an excuse to intervene. I'm still wondering whether we'll get into a situation in the far future where we would need to have a license to operate a Website online, and that all those visiting the Website will need to have a license to register themselves. And it would be almost impossible to escape it. That is my worst case scenario. So if one could deal with the industry control maybe that would delay Government from getting their greedy paws into the Internet mix. It's still early days for them though as tracking would be almost impossible and very expensive to lay on. But I'm worried as Governments everywhere have an ugly track record to milk money as much as they can and to control things through legislation as much as they can. I'm hoping that we may escape this as long as possible.
