This shouldn't surprise too many people. Around where I live, the politicians constantly forced a vote (around 20+ times) until people eventually got tired of voting "No", and stopped caring. Thus, it eventually passed.
The morale of the story should be that politicians (regardless of what they are "supposed" to do/be) are completely supported by corporations. When you consider the monumental amount of money that stands to be made (see "Google"), it should go without saying that corporations will find some way to truly cash in on the Internet, nevermind the "next" Internet.
I mean, get real. Imagine you are staring at (lets be conservative) 10 billion smackers in corporate revenue. Are you going to let that annoying attitude of "freedom of information" stop you?
Read any amount of political history to see countless examples of this type of nonsense.
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This shouldn't surprise too many people. Around where I live, the politicians constantly forced a vote (around 20+ times) until people eventually got tired of voting "No", and stopped caring. Thus, it eventually passed.
The morale of the story should be that politicians (regardless of what they are "supposed" to do/be) are completely supported by corporations. When you consider the monumental amount of money that stands to be made (see "Google"), it should go without saying that corporations will find some way to truly cash in on the Internet, nevermind the "next" Internet.
I mean, get real. Imagine you are staring at (lets be conservative) 10 billion smackers in corporate revenue. Are you going to let that annoying attitude of "freedom of information" stop you?
Read any amount of political history to see countless examples of this type of nonsense.