Posted on 02/27/2015 4:21:03 AM PST by Biggirl
That mindset is illuminated in a column written by net neutrality advocate Malkia Cyril, founder and executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice. It is entitled, Only net neutrality can protect the internet from becoming like TV: white, middle-class and exclusive. And like the reliable progressive she is, Cyril cant resist framing the net neutrality issue in those oh-so familiar terms. If we lose that vote, the most democratic communications platform the world has ever seen could become more like cable TV, a fairly scary place that reproduces the economic gaps and racial hierarchies of the offline world, she laments. She goes on to insist that equal representation in a digital economy and 21st century democracy demands net neutrality protections.
I didn't realize until very recently just how strongly the left sees net neutrality in social justice terms and the degree to which they have organized to see it implemented. They've done a good job of staying low key as they've gone about their work. They won a huge victory yesterday. I'm only now realizing what a huge deal this is. We got seriously out-hustled on this one.
Communist China is smiling.
.....and then a new technology is developed???
dear bigigrl,
my idea of a mess to be left, would be a complete Soviet-style purge, of all persons involved.
sorry, but i have no love, nor compassion for any of the parties involved. The beloved ‘tree’ has been starving for some time, now.
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