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In reply to the discussion: WIRED: We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It [View all]woo me with science
(32,139 posts)6. They are systematically removing every avenue we have left
to fight back against the One Percent.
Investigative journalism and a free press have been gravely assaulted and are increasingly replaced with a ubiquitous, interactive propaganda machine.
Gathering places online are disrupted and infiltrated by corporate spew.
Mass surveillance and a police state ensure that any real organization for change or resistance can be ended before it even begins.
And now they are going after the internet itself....our access to information and ability to communicate with one another.
This is corporate fascism brought to America, advancing rapidly.
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WIRED: We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It [View all]
IDemo
Nov 2013
OP
As it is, searches turn up the same old, same old. I recall fondly Netscape, where academic
WinkyDink
Nov 2013
#5
Gah! Kicked and recced but furious about it all! Thanks for the article nt
riderinthestorm
Nov 2013
#27
Net Nutrality, Keystone, TPP, TPIP, massive subsidies for the Health Insurance Industry...
bvar22
Nov 2013
#29
The Internet should be a public utility with free high-speed access for all citizens. [n/t]
Maedhros
Nov 2013
#32
10 to 1 says if it goes, they will not expect the response. But that's a total guess. nt
silvershadow
Nov 2013
#44