Net Neutrality - America's Last Defense against Fascism
Republished in light of Paul Joseph Watson's Threats to Internet Freedom all too Real - a MUST READ for all who cherish what little freedom we have left.
This is no joke.
It's all about power and control, where each fortifies the other.
Power begets control, and control begets power until a few individuals wield so much of both that NOTHING and NO ONE can stand in their way.
"It is because the Internet is a NEUTRAL platform that I can put out this podcast and transmit it over the Internet without having to go through any corporate media middleman.
I can say what I want without censorship or without having to pay a special charge.
But the big telephone and cable companies WANT TO CHANGE THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT.
They say that they want to create high speed lanes on the Internet and strike exclusive contractual agreements with Internet content providers for access to those high speed lanes.
Everyone who CANNOT PONY UP THE CASH will be relegated to the slow lanes."
These are the words of Barack Obama, Senator from Illinois, in support of Net NEUTRALITY.
"Allowing the Bells and cable companies to act like gatekeepers WITH CONTROL OVER ACCESS to the Internet would make the Internet like cable - A PRODUCER-DRIVEN MARKET WITH BARRIERS TO ENTRY for website creators and preferential treatment for specific sites based not on merit or number of hits, but on their relationship with the corporate gatekeepers.”
Does all this sound familiar? It should. Because THIS is the story of our lives.
In a few paragraphs, Senator Obama encapsulated the method by which every facet of our economy has come under the complete control of a handful of corporations - the very first and most important of which is OUR MONETARY SYSTEM.
Like the Internet, our Money was intended at its inception to benefit equally every citizen of this nation - to serve, like the internet, as a medium of exchange to facilitate commerce and to increase trade. Money was issued whenever its circulation would benefit people. It was, so to speak, NEUTRAL. It was issued by the people, to the people, and for the people - interest-free.
Until one day, a handful of bankers established themselves as middlemen and exclusive gatekeepers of our national treasure - the medium which we had adopted in faith and trusted to MEASURE our wealth.
No sooner did they secure exclusive control over this treasure than they began exacting a special fee for its usage from the very same people by whose authority it was created.
Thereafter, they transformed our monetary system into a producer-driven market with barriers to entry for working people and preferential treatment for wealthy corporations, not based on merit or how hard they worked, but on their relationship with the corporate gatekeepers of money.
Through exclusive contractual agreements, wealthy corporations secured the greatest access to money at the lowest rates of interest, while working americans were forced to pay high rates of interest in return for minimal access to what is in fact the nation's treasure. The rest, as they say, is history.
Today, the same people who hijacked our monetary system intend to hijack our Internet. If they succeed, they will have dismantled the last barrier between freedom and total domination under these financial overlords. Their control over the money supply will contaminate the internet, making it an electronic version of the feudal economy we suffer under today.
While many people recognize the promise the internet holds in disseminating information and educating the masses, few realize that it is also the KEY to our financial freedom. The internet - like money - is a medium of exchange and can, with the right technology, be used to conduct every conceivable commercial transaction, all without middlemen, and all INTEREST-FREE.
This week we must fight for Net Neutrality as if our lives depend on it - because they do.
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Original Posted July 4, 2006
this is absolutely infuriating. the main reason is that these fucking telcos got 200 billion in tax breaks in the 90s to build fibre optic connections all over the US. they took the tax breaks, didn't do what they promised and now they 'demand a return on their investment?'
FUCK YOU YOU GREEDY CUNTS.
/end rant
. . . they keep moving the goal post.
it just occurred to me yesterday that all these bullshit shenanigans came about by the misinterpretation of the 'tragedy of the commons' paradigm.
Instead of seeing it a reason to HAVE a shared interest in property, greedy corporatists consider it a reason NOT TO HAVE a shared interest in it.
BTW, it's not just the ma bells that are bleeding the system and all its human inhabitants dry. It's also the banks, the insurers, the energy companies, and the cable companies.
The reality of the matter is, sooner or later these corporations will get what they want. People can march and demonstrate all they want but the truth is that demonstrations don't change anything. How many demonstrations were carried out since the "war on terror (Islam)" started? What came from any of them? The internet is proving to be the enemy of many groups (Israel anyone) and will most likely not be allowed to be as it is for much longer. Let's just hope Canada doesn't start copying America on everything.