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xfundy

(5,105 posts)

17. Damn right.

Reply to PowerToThePeople (Reply #16)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 11:25 PM

Sep 2013

The People are supposed to own the airwaves and as far as I know the Internet is also owned by The People, for how could it not be, since it's a government invention?

So damn tired of Privatization, which rips us off while rewarding rich pricks.

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