Posted on 04/18/2014 5:16:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Newly released Clinton document describes Internet as ‘right wing’ tool of ‘conspiracy commerce’
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A previously unreleased White House document among the 7,500 published by the Clinton presidential library Friday warns that the burgeoning Internet of 1995 is being “seized” by the “right wing” and turned into a “communication stream of conspiracy commerce.”
The 1995 report, titled “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,” describes the Internet as a new method of communication ”employed by the right wing” and used to “convey their fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.”
Among those “fringe stories” were the now-infamous reports and lawsuits alleging extra-martial affairs with the president, including accusations from model and actress Gennifer Flowers, and murmurings about former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, Mashable reports.
The White House counsel’s office and Democratic National Committee produced the report, which explains how “Republican staffers surf the Internet,” and describes it as “one of the major and most dynamic modes of communication.”
“The Internet can link people, groups and organizations together instantly,” the report reads. “Moreover, it allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all. The right wing has seized upon the internet as a means of communicating its ideas to people. Moreover, evidence exists that Republican staffers surf the internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”
Any time the lie of the Tyrant can be unveiled in a matter of minutes, it is a threat to the Tyrant, and must be destroyed.
The Internet is to politicians what the over kitchen light is to cockroaches.
BTTT!
Attention AT&T - Verizon customers Netflix users .
Wondering why all the problems with Netflix streaming?
Netflix users on Verizon and AT&T get raw deal, have little reason for hope
Customers are the victim of stalled negotiations between ISPs and Netflix.
by Jon Brodkin - Mar 29 2014, 7:00am CST
Faster than streaming on Verizon and AT&T.
Kristin
“Why is Netflix so unreliable?” That’s one of the most common questions asked by Internet users today.
But that question gets asked by customers of some Internet service providers (ISPs) a lot more than customers of others. Netflix’s February rankings show that Google Fiber’s average Netflix speed of 3.74Mbps was more than twice as high as Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon, which are the first, second, and fourth biggest broadband providers in the country. Cablevision, Cox, Suddenlink, and Charter beat the biggest ISPs in the national speed rankings too. RCN, a smaller carrier in the Northeast, last year outperformed all opponents in a speed test of just the Boston area.
Further Reading
Verizon CEO confident about getting payments from Netflix, too
CEO: Netflix/Comcast deal proves Internet market doesn’t need much regulation.
The trend has been a downward one for months on Verizon, Comcast, and AT&T, yet only customers of Comcast have reason to hope it might improve. That’s because Netflix reluctantly agreed to pay Comcast for a direct connection to its network. Already, Netflix streaming on Comcast improved slightly in February and should continue to get better as more traffic goes over the direct connection between Netflix and Comcast.
But what about Netflix customers stuck with Verizon or AT&T? There’s nothing to do but wait.
For all its complaints about the country’s lack of net neutrality rules, Netflix has shown that it’s willing to pay what it calls ISP “tolls” to secure a better experience for users. But so far it’s only struck a deal with Comcast, and that may be because Comcast wanted to avoid extra scrutiny as it tries to convince the US government that it should be able to purchase Time Warner Cable.
Wedbush Securities wrote that Netflix will have a harder time making deals with ISPs other than Comcast.
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