"I secretly worked with the world's most powerful media companies to get you to believe what "they" want you to believe. The media is the most efficient weapon of tyranny and oppression ever created. No need to physically control populations anymore when you can do it mentally - program it in, internalize the rules."
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"4. Get people into the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) who will smash the current media ownership rules. The concentration of media ownership is the foundation of the covert power structure. Without that, the whole thing is a house of cards. That's why the FCC is currently trying to ram through rules that will further consolidate media ownership before the Bush administration leaves office. As part of this, it is pivotal that we protect the open architecture of the Internet. The media belongs to the people, as does the government, in theory anyway, but we need an information system that actually serves the public interest."
However, when the time comes that the US implements policy that damages the internet in a meaningful way, then we'll see alternatives used. It's how the internet works.
You mean like the alternatives we'll see used when the US implements policy that damages the international financial order with their worthless dollar.
'The dollar, our currency, your problem' - US Secretary of Treasury John Connally, may 1971.
This is what often happens when managers get the chance to take over. As soon as the creative and/or relevant people are overrun by the managerial class which is mainly interested in maintaining its own status-quo and like a swarm of locusts leave only a barren wasteland.
You can see this happen everywhere, e.g. health care, music industry, IT sector (the Amiga comes to mind).
First the music industry, in their never ending quest for more money and larger profits, kills good music by commercializing it to death. When confronted with the result, they subsequently blame their customers, bribe politicians and try to make a quick buck by suing a.o. mothers and college kids. All in the name of music and the artist, who they've previously ripped off.
Well, Gene Simmons' second solo album says it all... Asshole (2004).
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"I secretly worked with the world's most powerful media companies to get you to believe what "they" want you to believe. The media is the most efficient weapon of tyranny and oppression ever created. No need to physically control populations anymore when you can do it mentally - program it in, internalize the rules."
[...]
"4. Get people into the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) who will smash the current media ownership rules. The concentration of media ownership is the foundation of the covert power structure. Without that, the whole thing is a house of cards. That's why the FCC is currently trying to ram through rules that will further consolidate media ownership before the Bush administration leaves office. As part of this, it is pivotal that we protect the open architecture of the Internet. The media belongs to the people, as does the government, in theory anyway, but we need an information system that actually serves the public interest."
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7525
However, when the time comes that the US implements policy that damages the internet in a meaningful way, then we'll see alternatives used. It's how the internet works. You mean like the alternatives we'll see used when the US implements policy that damages the international financial order with their worthless dollar. 'The dollar, our currency, your problem' - US Secretary of Treasury John Connally, may 1971.
This is what often happens when managers get the chance to take over. As soon as the creative and/or relevant people are overrun by the managerial class which is mainly interested in maintaining its own status-quo and like a swarm of locusts leave only a barren wasteland. You can see this happen everywhere, e.g. health care, music industry, IT sector (the Amiga comes to mind).
First the music industry, in their never ending quest for more money and larger profits, kills good music by commercializing it to death. When confronted with the result, they subsequently blame their customers, bribe politicians and try to make a quick buck by suing a.o. mothers and college kids. All in the name of music and the artist, who they've previously ripped off. Well, Gene Simmons' second solo album says it all... Asshole (2004).