Alex
06-10-2010, 02:05 AM
The South won the Civil war because we got stuck with wage slavery and corporatism. Corporatism itself is a kind of plantation or feudal era throwback. Recallthe Tobacco reparations.
Now the parasites of the broadcast model (being on one side propaganda and on the other secrecy enablers and in the middle pure puffing, sponsorship and lobbying,) want to vertically integrate the internet because it’s the only way they can survive. But we as a public don’t want them to survive and this is especially the case where we know what is in our own interests no thanks to them. We want them to experience the proper 100x revenue reduction and transfer of power that internet transformation brings about. They are even less deserving than the large banks of being spared this fate and certainly not entitled to the destruction or total corruption of a central piece of infrastructure. If American society is ceasing to be socially useful its largely because of the practices and assumptions of those involved with broadcast media and related industries.
The vertical integration of the net by media/cable/telecom parasites is the equivalent of the South telling the North to de-industrialize because its threatens slavery. Its buggy makers preventing highways and automobiles. It shouldn’t surprise us because these are people who think it is their right and obligation to profit from intentional misrepresentation or malicious spin.
Look at what our broadcast based corporate state has wrought. In the state of Israel, for instance, we have a plantation entity and it should be no surprise that it is now accused of attempting to sell nukes to Apartheid based South Africa. The US was a British Imperial project and Israel a further ramification of that project and slavery is par for the course.
A push back of this stuff is to remove all support legal or otherwise (up to and including prohibition) for corporate, state or organizational secrecy while strengthening individual privacy. Notice there is no notion of a corporate privacy, nor should there be, only poisonous and needless secrecy. Complete transparency for all social entities, except where it would encroach on legitimate individual privacy, with no exceptions at all for claims about incentives or tatics/strategy. No trade or treaty exemptions either, if a firm does business directly or indirectly with the US it complys instantly and completely or cease to do business with US. This isn't radical its simply the elimination of a basic and ongoing abuse of power.
Now the parasites of the broadcast model (being on one side propaganda and on the other secrecy enablers and in the middle pure puffing, sponsorship and lobbying,) want to vertically integrate the internet because it’s the only way they can survive. But we as a public don’t want them to survive and this is especially the case where we know what is in our own interests no thanks to them. We want them to experience the proper 100x revenue reduction and transfer of power that internet transformation brings about. They are even less deserving than the large banks of being spared this fate and certainly not entitled to the destruction or total corruption of a central piece of infrastructure. If American society is ceasing to be socially useful its largely because of the practices and assumptions of those involved with broadcast media and related industries.
The vertical integration of the net by media/cable/telecom parasites is the equivalent of the South telling the North to de-industrialize because its threatens slavery. Its buggy makers preventing highways and automobiles. It shouldn’t surprise us because these are people who think it is their right and obligation to profit from intentional misrepresentation or malicious spin.
Look at what our broadcast based corporate state has wrought. In the state of Israel, for instance, we have a plantation entity and it should be no surprise that it is now accused of attempting to sell nukes to Apartheid based South Africa. The US was a British Imperial project and Israel a further ramification of that project and slavery is par for the course.
A push back of this stuff is to remove all support legal or otherwise (up to and including prohibition) for corporate, state or organizational secrecy while strengthening individual privacy. Notice there is no notion of a corporate privacy, nor should there be, only poisonous and needless secrecy. Complete transparency for all social entities, except where it would encroach on legitimate individual privacy, with no exceptions at all for claims about incentives or tatics/strategy. No trade or treaty exemptions either, if a firm does business directly or indirectly with the US it complys instantly and completely or cease to do business with US. This isn't radical its simply the elimination of a basic and ongoing abuse of power.