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In reply to the discussion: Verizon's diabolical plan to turn the Web into pay-per-view [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)and not just because of the consumer's nightmare of expensive and severely limited packaged content that it'll bring:
The job of these providers is to offer access to the complete internet, period. Ceding them any control over content or access to content *will* lead to censorship and tyranny.
We will lose our fundamental freedom to access the world and each other unfiltered by a corporate agenda. Corporate CEO's will offer us exactly what they want us to see and experience, and they will leave out what they don't want us to have access to. And we can kiss goodbye any chance of using the internet as maybe our last remaining tool to educate and organize together against the corporate exploitation of all of us and the corporate corruption of our government that is destroying this country.