Virgin Media have recently announced they don't care about net neutrality and are going to start controlling the quality of their users internet service, depending on whether the websites they are trying to access pay Virgin a high premium or not. This means that if you say, went to the Virgin Media website, you would get a very fast speeds like any normal time you spend on the World Wide Web. But if you tried to access a website like YouTube that are not paying Virgin a fee, the website will load very slowly. So slow that you won't even feel like using that site, and may prefer to use another. Traffic Shaping like this is wrong. It gives Virgin the power to stop people accessing websites that they don't believe in. People may never be able to speak their mind on the internet again if the corporations that fund Virgin don't see fit. Sign today to put a stop to it!

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