Posted on 08/19/2010 9:41:44 AM PDT by Nachum
This is how Fascism works.
The corporations are joined, by law and mandates, by subsidies and tax breaks into the political agenda of the Socialists running the government, expecting that at least they will retain the pretense that they are “free enterprise” institutions; all the while the activities of the state to control their enterprises, for political agendas, grows and grows.
In this case, the telecoms and Internet service outfits get taxpayer funds to provide commercially, economically unprofitable services. Why?
Are farmers in small town communities just dying to get a “Facebook” account, or is it the consumer product industries that are demanding the ability to reach them through the personal-data driven, targeted-advertising driven Internet business model?
Gee, I’m thrilled that my taxes will be subsidizing broadband service for the 6 people who live in Pumpkin Center only one of whom has a computer. You know these remote rural areas also don’t have Starbucks and shopping malls so why not have the federal government subsidize the building of them as well.
They may be thinking that if they put money into the net they will be able to start to control it. That’s how they control schools.
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