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Octafish

(55,745 posts) Mon Apr 28, 2014, 07:30 PM Apr 2014

Overturning Net Neutrality means Corporate McPravda gains control of the Internet.

Then it's good night, Democracy.

There will be no mass medium of communication open to the Little Guy on an equal footing with what's owned and operated by the nation's few titanic and tyrannic media companies.

Immediately, the message most will see, read and hear on the Internet will echo what they see, read and hear each night over the television screen and on almost all of the radio:

all for war, all the time.

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Overturning Net Neutrality means Corporate McPravda gains control of the Internet. (Original Post) Octafish Apr 2014 OP

The obstacles keep on coming. Public funded elections, people. We need to free our country of the Jefferson23 Apr 2014 #1

Absolutely, Jefferson23. Election season for the Networks is like Christmas for the retailers. Octafish Apr 2014 #2

So we read, and we watch, all the specially selected news, and learn so much more bout the good guys Electric Monk Apr 2014 #3

Thank you, Electric Monk. Outstanding, ''Fighters for Texaco.'' Octafish Apr 2014 #4

Please sign this Petition. wilsonbooks Apr 2014 #5

Thank you, wilsonbooks! I think I'm Number 4,601. Octafish Apr 2014 #6

K&R for your link..thank you. n/t Jefferson23 Apr 2014 #7

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

1. The obstacles keep on coming. Public funded elections, people. We need to free our country of the

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 07:33 PM

Apr 2014

poison of corporate influence.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

2. Absolutely, Jefferson23. Election season for the Networks is like Christmas for the retailers.

Reply to Jefferson23 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 07:38 PM

Apr 2014

Money falls into the cash registers, cha-ching.

Every day, I appreciate John Roberts' criminal role more and more.

Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)

3. So we read, and we watch, all the specially selected news, and learn so much more bout the good guys

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 07:49 PM

Apr 2014

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

4. Thank you, Electric Monk. Outstanding, ''Fighters for Texaco.''

Reply to Electric Monk (Reply #3)

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 09:30 PM

Apr 2014

''Money trumps peace.'' And then, he laughed.

The very words George W Bush, uttered during a press conference on Feb. 14, 2007. And not a single member of the callow, cowed White House press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.

You remember Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention. Not many non-DUers with whom I've spoken over the last seven years knew he said them.

Why? It wasn't covered by the same media who employ the White House press corpse.

Same story for his Poppy, Bush Sr, who told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

wilsonbooks

(972 posts)

5. Please sign this Petition.

Reply to Octafish (Original post)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 12:18 AM

Apr 2014

http://www.sanders.senate.gov/net-neutrality

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

6. Thank you, wilsonbooks! I think I'm Number 4,601.

Reply to wilsonbooks (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 09:02 AM

Apr 2014

I let them know what I think, too:

Making some points of view more "valuable" than others favors the wealthy and powerful.

Then again, that's who gets heard in Wall Street on the Potomac.

Neil Barofsky Gave Us The Best Explanation For Washington's Dysfunction We've Ever Heard

Linette Lopez
Business Insider, Aug. 1, 2012, 2:57 PM

Neil Barofsky was the Inspector General for TARP, and just wrote a book about his time in D.C. called Bailout: An Insider Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street.

SNIP...

Bottom line: Barofsky said the incentive structure in our nation's capitol is all wrong. There's a revolving door between bureaucrats in Washington and Wall Street banks, and politicians just want to keep their jobs.

For regulators it's something like this:

"You can play ball and good things can happen to you get a big pot of gold at the end of the Wall Street rainbow or you can do your job be aggressive and face personal ruin...We really need to rethink how we govern and how regulate," Barofsky said.

CONTINUED... http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-barofsky-2012-8

For democracy to function, The People need a means of communication. Nothing is more democratic than the Internet. And for the wealthy warmonger, that's a problem.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)

7. K&R for your link..thank you. n/t

Reply to wilsonbooks (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 29, 2014, 09:06 AM

Apr 2014

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