Timithy Karr: How the TeleCom Industry Plans to Take Over the Internet in Four Easy Steps
They’ve opened their wallets to Washington. It’s an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars and it’s being made right now by AT&T, Comcast and Verizon — the companies that provide broadband access to the vast majority of Americans … Right now, the FCC and Congress are weighing a series of decisions that could determine whether this decade-long explosion of Internet creativity was a short-lived experiment in people-powered media, or the beginning of an era of more decentralized, participatory and democratic communications. 20th-century media colossi prefer a return to the old ways, where a handful of gatekeeper firms operated the turn-on valve to all popular information. It was a profitable model that worked well for one-way communications like newspapers, radio, and television.
add this to the list of battles to come (renewable energy, social security, health care, conflicts w democratic socialist countries) – mab .. read more
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