The Censorship of the Internet (So It Begins)
by Kelly
A part of me that fundamentally still believed in Obama and American politics just broke, irrevocably.
If you didn’t hear, the FCC just made a “victory” in the fight to protect net neutrality (i.e. protecting the internet — and us — from big business interests and censorship).
But really, it was a major defeat, dressed up by Democrats using ambiguous language and trotted out by Obama and his people as evidence that Obama is keeping his promise on the subject of net neutrality.
Wrong.
It’s a slippery fucking slope, folks. As corporations get their well-manicured fingers around the “tubes” of the internet, do not expect to see our beloved World Wide Web ever again. Forget days free of censorship; forget true democracy. Instead, welcome to a re-envisioning of 1984, an Orwellian future so vastly fucked up even Orwell couldn’t have put it to paper.
Don’t believe me? Read this article: They’re calling it net neutrality, but it isn’t.
oh, and this: FCC breaks Obama’s promise, allows corporate censorship online with fake Net Neutrality
And, finally, allow the kid inside of you — the one who grew up learning about how great democracy is, and what a fine institution the American political system is — to cry, to tear up their elementary school memories, because it is finally time to realize the truth:
It wasn’t Bush. It’s not Obama. It’s lobbyists and corporations and the wealthy who run this country and it makes me sick.
It was the beginning of American Genocide that started it all, 1492 blah blah blah and all that. like Thoreau said, the “government is best which governs least.”