When AOL introduced the flatrate service for internet use in the mid-1990's, the internet took off as a commoners' means of communications, and birthed the dotcom boom. Ever since then, users and critiques have condemned the internet to death for this reason or that-- whether it was taxing users or spam or pop up advertisements, innovation has "threatened the internet as we know it" countless times.

Well I'm calling this development as the apocalypse of the internet. Essentially, Geolocation devices are attaching a computer's IP number with specific geographical areas so that certain regions of the world are served different digital content. This is good if say you are looking for restaurants and google pops up an add for your local diner. But it can also be malicious.

For instance, MLB may broadcast a game over the internet-- but only to people in the "Broadcast" zone, just like television.

Why is this the end of the internet? The internet's allure is the free exchange of data-- Geolocation will only lead to information costing more. Of course, already there are ways around this, like using a false IP address, or using dialup internet to dial into a different area then you are physically located at.

In eithercase, its the end of the internet.

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