This pisses me off. A few big companies are buying politicians to transform the internet from a communications medium for everybody into a pipe for delivering the "content" of their choice. What they have already done to broadcast radio in this country, they want to do to the web. Moreover, anything that comes over the pipe we will have to pay for by the minute. Of course my favorite Co, Microsoft is enabling this takeover with their.net technology and their "passport" information "service". And Microsoft has been given a blank check by the current administration.
I don't know that there is anything that can be done about it. The vast majority of people don't understand the situation at all. Those who have an inkling tend to marginalize complaints such
as mine as "conspiracy theories." The thing is, there is no conspiracy. Money is like mass. If you compress enough of it into one small place you get an object that is so attractive that it sucks in all the surrounding money/mass. In the case of mass it's called a black hole. In the case of money it seems to be the fortune 50 plus the republican party (plus those democrats in the pocket of the entertainment industry).
I suspect that once the republicans establish them selves as the sole political party (in charge of all three branches of gov't and owning the media) in November, anything resembling freedom on the internet will rapidly disappear.
-LFL
[PS: the problems is not the republican party per se, the problem is one-party rule. Look what that did to Russia or to Mexico. We've got a stampede on our hands.]
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This pisses me off. A few big companies are buying politicians to transform the internet from a communications medium for everybody into a pipe for delivering the "content" of their choice. What they have already done to broadcast radio in this country, they want to do to the web. Moreover, anything that comes over the pipe we will have to pay for by the minute. Of course my favorite Co, Microsoft is enabling this takeover with their .net technology and their "passport" information "service". And Microsoft has been given a blank check by the current administration.
I don't know that there is anything that can be done about it. The vast majority of people don't understand the situation at all. Those who have an inkling tend to marginalize complaints such
as mine as "conspiracy theories." The thing is, there is no conspiracy. Money is like mass. If you compress enough of it into one small place you get an object that is so attractive that it sucks in all the surrounding money/mass. In the case of mass it's called a black hole. In the case of money it seems to be the fortune 50 plus the republican party (plus those democrats in the pocket of the entertainment industry).
I suspect that once the republicans establish them selves as the sole political party (in charge of all three branches of gov't and owning the media) in November, anything resembling freedom on the internet will rapidly disappear.
-LFL
[PS: the problems is not the republican party per se, the problem is one-party rule. Look what that did to Russia or to Mexico. We've got a stampede on our hands.]