The
FCC voted two to one along party lines to begin repealing its net
neutrality rules. The biggest fight in the Internet's history has
just begun, but don't expect to hear about it on the mainstream
media.
With most of
the media locked in on coverage of Donald Trump and his ballooning
scandals - it's easy to forget that there are other very important
things going on in the country right now. One of the most important
is the ongoing push by FCC
chair Ajit Pai to hand the internet over to big telecom companies.
Today - Pai inched a litle closer to that goal - as the FCC voted 2
to 1 to begin repealing its net neutrality rules. The biggest fight
in the internet's history has just begun - but don't expect to hear
about it on mainstream media.
Mike
Papantonio (America's Lawyer (RT America)/Ring of Fire Radio/Law and
Disorder), spoke to Thom Hartmann about this major issue:
This is a
huge problem for independent media whether it's conservative,
liberal. They have the potential for censorship of material that
corporations don't want us to know about.
And the
other potential problem, is these corporations throttling back
internet speeds for independent media sites who aren't able to pay
these large sums like corporate owned media. We saw something really
similar with television. In the 1980s you had about fifty five
independent media groups that were out there, giving us the news,
taking the airways and making into something useful, rather than the
pablum that we see in corporate media.
Today, we've
gone from fifty five to four corporations owning all that. That's
exactly what's going to happen here. This is a big problem for all
independent media and it shows that corporations and corporate media
won't stop at absolutely nothing to stifle our voices.
The
corporate media has been complicit in this whole story, and that's
mostly because they're the ones who stand to gain most from all of
this.
The only
groups to benefit from getting rid of net neutrality, are massive
telecom firms. They get more money from corporations, and smaller
firms can't afford to pay. They are going to be pushed out of the
market. The average person doesn't even know what's happening here.
The telecom
industry spent more than eighty five million dollars lobbying in
2016. Telecom industry gave about ten million to the Democrats and
about ten million to the Republicans in 2016 cycle. Means that they
win regardless of which party wins. So, don't expect anything out of
Democrats, they have gotten as much money as Republicans. Killing net
neutrality is going to put the brakes on countless internet
start-ups, but they don't really care that these people are being
squeezed out. New ideas are being squeezed out. Entrepreneurs are
being squeezed out, stifling innovation.
It has
started
two years ago:
The
Federal Communication Commission has begun to kill the Internet as
most people know it, adopting proposed rules to create a caste system
allowing the giant Internet service providers to segregate users by
delivery speeds and ability to pay.
As
decribed
already since 2013, the neoliberal dictatorship will try to erase the
independent voice of public broadcasters in Europe - through the
Greek experiment - and dictate a Too Big to Fail model for the
largest private media, following the same pattern applied on the
banking sector, in order to erase the independent information in
maximum degree. The next big step will be to find a way to control
the independent Internet information, in order to complete its
domination.
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