Here are the Civil Rights Orgs that Sold Out the People to the Big Telecoms on Net Neutrality

If the corporations take over the internet we’re going to have to do something drastic like (wait for it…) TALK TO EACH OTHER, OR DO LIVE SHOWS AND SELL RECORDS OR GET OUR NEWS (yikes) BY WORD OF MOUTH. Oh my God, horror of all horrors. Might not be so bad.

@ Darklord: Naive huh? Davey probably remembers when Jah Bonz and Tamu and myself and others were kicked off KMEL by Clear Channel and they are still fighting over at KPFA after they’ve kicked most community voices off there. I was writing as a Staff Journalist for the Monroe Free Press during the creation of USA Today. I used to submit stringer to the Oakland Tribune which was the ONLY Black owned and operated newspaper in the nation. At that time there were thousands of independently owned newspapers in the US, now there might be a hundred or so. What you got in the Bay is the Alameda News Group (ANG). Hell, when television was created it was supposed to have as its basic application “The informing of the common people” and it was to be a FREE forum for good. Naive? Been there, done that, made the t-shirt, wore it out. What does this have to do with Net Neutrality? Young brother Darklord, what we are talking about is the corporate control of the means of production and communication and you can march or talk shit on these forums all you want but you aint gonna be able to do shit about it unless YOU GOT THE WHEREWITHAL TO BUILD YOUR OWN DAMN SATELLITE or BUILD A NEW INTERNET. I wish I were as naive as you are and then I might be able to fool myself, as you are doing, into thinking that there is something that can be done about the inevitable. This shit is a foregone COLLUSION (sic)!

It’s amazing how gullible most everyone on the Left is. Some people will believe anything.

Obama campaigned against the Patriot Act and then voted to renew it, twice I believe.

Obama campaigned against government wiretapping and then voted for it.

Obama was one of the biggest cheerleaders for the banker bailout because he is a complete and total slave to Wall Street.

You have to wonder, would so many people have been caught up in the initial Obama hysteria if the guy was white? How many people voted for him solely because he was a black guy, who when you look at his actions, is a broken tool that is following the same agenda that that other broken tool Bush was following.

At least some of the zombies are starting to wake up and realize that they’ve been had, Go back and read Webster Tarpley’s original analysis on Obama. He nailed it. This guy is an agent of finical capitalism of the worst kind and is nothing but a facelift for fascism.

Seems like the proponents of the old “new world order” mentally are finally getting down to business by continuing to buy, bail, or merge big companies together, track and control what (cheep) consumer goods we buy and how we pay for them (store cards and credit cards), run the schools and prisons, defunct local governments by allowing them to continue to “cook the books,” use gentrification to merge and control the lower and middle class populations, control the drug game (pharmaceuticals), feed us poison via Genetically Modified Organisms and ill-fed livestock, utilizing secret and private mercenaries to try to police the rest of the world, reducing various outlets and “news” sources to gossip filled fear mongering media tabloids status, and polarizing religion into something comedic and illicit. How can the internet NOT be targeted next?

The same thing has already happened in some respects to community media (public access facilities) as well all around the country. It all goes back to a bunch of rich, out-of-touch, rarely-held-accountable wealthy white folks (and their non-white co-signers) arrogantly trying to dictate to everybody else what they think is important and vital. It’s that age-old, tired-ass battle of the haves trying to decide and dictate for the regular and have-nots folks whose voice is important and which content is important. We’re going to have to focus more on an independentlly run and operated COLLECTIVE media structure.