NOTHING LEFT BUT PORN? WORLDCOM SCANDAL MAY CRIPPLE NET
Following in the wake of the Worldcom telecommunications scandal, internet pundits are making gloomy pronouncements these days pointing toward possible trouble ahead for many websurfers due to industry fallout. Some of the more dire predictions are reminiscent of the Y2K warnings of several years ago, threatening that massive layoffs and technical service reductions by Worldcom and others may signal cutbacks in internet availability. At the moment, it is estimated that approximately 40% of internet traffic passes over Worldcom networks at any given time. It is also separately reckoned that about 60% of all internet traffic is pornography. This reporter realizes it is faulty mathematics, as well as flippant, to suggest the collapse of Worldcom would lead to only porno on the net, but a man can dream.
current science news posted by ted at 6/28/2002 03:14:00 PM
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