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The Coming Internet Monopolies
scrm writes "'The Federal Communications Commission is quietly handing over control of the broadband Internet to a handful of massive corporations according to this Salon article." Very important stuff; Slashdot has covered this before, but this is a great article which sums up everything that has gone on over the past few years.
Just an insignificant comment, but why the fuck is everyone always saying "capitalism works because ...".
Tell me how capitalism works. Tell me how it helps out the poor. Tell me why it's ok for wealth to be amassed in the top few percent of the population, while people die all over the fucking world because they can't eat. Tell me why it's ok to buy a "vote" in a free market with money, when most people don't even have enough money to pay the bills. Tell me why exploitation of cheap labor is a good thing. Explain to me why the people who support capitalism aren't the ones that suffer from it.
Please clear this up for me. And don't pick just one comment in here that you disagree with, and argue that. Explain the big picture, about how this "capitalism" works for everyone, about how it makes everyone's life better. Because I'm ok with being wrong, but I haven't heard a fucking thing that would make anyone else right.