Posted on 07/15/2011 4:10:20 PM PDT by jongaltsr
Interesting speech I came across comparing the great inventions and how they evolved.
The Rail Roads brought people, products and prosperity to America but eventually they began to control all aspects of who could use their services and they began to set rates based on the kickbacks they got from large corporations. The small farmer started dieing out because they could not compete with corporations that demanded more and more of the Rail Traffic cutting out the small guy. Farms withered up and died. Towns disappeared.
The internet will become the same as Corporations (AT&T, COMCAST, ABC, CBS, NBC etc, etc, control more and more of the bandwidth and set the regulations which prevent individual from free speech.
Bloggers will die out, FreeRepublic will be shut down, Drudge Report and others will disappear and all of the bandwidth will be owned by the big guys. The ones that want us to think their thoughts, buy their products and believe their version of the truth they preach.
It is already happening.
They are suggesting that users meet certain requirements to have access and can be fined if it is derogatory or "Anti" their versions (visions)of the American Way.
We will be told what the news is like it was in the 50's. NBC, CBS, ABC and a few other news stations were the ONLY ones allowed because they were the only stations that had the power to control entire segments of the TV spectrum.
The FCC saw to that. I know for a fact that the FCC and those agencies held hands on all issues foreign, domestic, religion and the though of individual speech was NEVER considered.
When the Rail Roads started up there were a couple at first, then they flourished for a few years and the country flourished along with the addition of new Rail Road Companies.
Then the Big Guys forced the little guys to sell out and now we have AM-TRACK and a couple of Pseudo companies which have dried up cities all over the country.
Remember AT&T? They were the ONLY telephone company any of us ever heard of. They got broken up and technology in communications burst on the scene. Well folks, hold on to your hats but now it is AT&T, Sprint and a few minor companies controlling things again. Pretty soon it will be just one or two and your "Options" will once again be limited.
Bloggers will die out, FreeRepublic will be shut down, Drudge Report and others will disappear and all of the bandwidth will be owned by the big guys. The ones that want us to think their thoughts, buy their products and believe their version of the truth they preach.
It is already happening.
They are suggesting that users meet certain requirements to have access and can be fined if it is derogatory or "Anti" their versions (visions)of the American Way.
We will be told what the news is like it was in the 50's. NBC, CBS, ABC and a few other news stations were the ONLY ones allowed because they were the only stations that had the power to control entire segments of the TV spectrum.
The FCC saw to that. I know for a fact that the FCC and those agencies held hands on all issues foreign, domestic, religion and the though of individual speech was NEVER considered.
When the Rail Roads started up there were a couple at first, then they flourished for a few years and the country flourished along with the addition of new Rail Road Companies.
Then the Big Guys forced the little guys to sell out and now we have AM-TRACK and a couple of Pseudo companies which have dried up cities all over the country.
Remember AT&T? They were the ONLY telephone company any of us ever heard of. They got broken up and technology in communications burst on the scene. Well folks, hold on to your hats but now it is AT&T, Sprint and a few minor companies controlling things again. Pretty soon it will be just one or two and your "Options" will once again be limited.
How long before our thoughts will be filtered and/or totally eliminated on the internet unless we fight back.
WE have to stand and be not only vocal but violently active to preserve our freedoms of speech - otherwise we will have nothing but pablum fed to us from those on high with agendas to keep us down, poor, obedient and subservient.
Go back to those BB’s run from people’s homes?
For example: http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/
The “history” of the railroads provided in the article is worse than useless.
People will find a way to communicate.
Always have, even before the printing press.
Even in tight regimes like China and Burma, people find ways of getting mass messages across. It may not be as convenient as the internet, but it will be done.
Our own Revolutionary founders found ways to communicate with each other, even under threat of treason.
The Bastille was stormed by a ‘flash mob’ way before the iphone.
You can see people are already thinking about this:
Dead Drops: When US Cyber Command Pulls the Net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3pKF6gREFw
Like the legend of Jesse James and how the railroad took his mothers farm or some such ....
"Something about choo-choo..."</Blazing Saddles>
Where’d you get my picture? ;-)
Railroads made America possible.
Now, regarding monopolies ~ Rockefeller was accused of having too much power over oil because he was sufficiently large he could demand greater discounts from the railroads than other shippers.
Consumers benefited from cheaper oil sold by Rockefeller.
Anti-trust legislation was directed at everything that was beneficial to consumers and unfavorable to railroad unionized labor and railroad stockholders.
Eventually we built good highways, invented good trucks, and escaped the high rates the railroads were allowed to charge.
Rockefeller died rich anyway. He was a good man.
It was in the Rock Ridge Sheriff’s Office...
I agree. History has not accorded him his proper due.
Breaker, Breaker, 1-9. Anyone got a copy?
Quit hyperventilating. The net will be there because it's a free association of people that agreed to a standard communications format.
/johnny
/johnny
I am one of millions buying home base CB radios. Very cheap used.
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