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Publishers' Attack Free Government Sites
An anonymous reader writes "After succeding in getting the DOE's PubScience shutdown the Software and Information Industry Association and publishers' are now
targeting more. If the trend continues local tax dollars will increasingly be spent to buy access to information the federal government used to provide."
Well said man. ... well ... it's the right thing to do". So they will continue to be a problem until the rest of the world decides "We've had enough of thisd shit" and also choose to boycott products from the world's multi-national corporations (I have been pointing at the US but this also includes British companies and others).
My friends, family and myself all boycott American products for this reason - that US corporations are taking advantage of people's naivity regarding what free markets are and what they can achieve. Unfortunately we aren't going to make a dent on their bottom line on our own. And I don't think there are too many other ways to fight them. Any serious opposition to them is met with legal 'obstacles' (and who has the money to fight them in court - the US Justice department, for example?) or worse - military retaliation (in the name of peace-keeping no less). You can't sit down with the leaders of the world (US corporations) and say "Please do the right thing because
So I urge everyone to take a stand. Don't buy from McDonalds, buy from the local guy with his own fast food business. Don't buy from Dell, buy from the guy on the corner that can undercut Dell by 100% and still give better service. Don't buy anything you see advertised on TV, as you will only be throwing money on the ever-increasing pile which will be used to further rape your rights and OUR environment until the last consumer has spend their last cent and there are no more trees to cut down and there are no more markets to invade and there are no more minerals to mine.