Good post. However, in your last sentence you swap (Glenn) Reynold's for (Glenn) Greenwald ... just an fyi.
Posted by understandinglife at April 28, 2006 09:24 PMBoth papers enabled and fueled the completely partisan, rumor stoked right wing witch hunt of Clinton, which the public rightly separated from his ability to govern.
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Pretending that the demonstrable chronic corruption of the Bush administration is payback or the same thing is dissociation for their role in giving these unprecedented crooks unlimited power and watching them raze every worthwhile institution to the ground.
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One president lied about an extramarital affair. Another and his cronies have replaced constitutional democratic government with a de facto dictatorship and placed themselves outside control, oversight and accountability.
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At least Keith Olberman covered the stories, along with the one about O'Reilly urging his brainwashed followers to phone-rant a publisher who died in 2002, because his newspaper brought up the sex scandal thing.
Keith had the guys from "Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly.com" on the show, and asked them to keep up the good work.
Posted by TIKI AL at April 28, 2006 11:03 PMThis is an article from the Nation ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester
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Basically what it says is the US cable and telephone companies are pushing the government to be able to control traffic on the net, promoting what THEY want, cahrge u for everyting, making blogs too expensive to run, especially the wrong side of the political spectrum. Yes the big companies are out to silence the net....for profit... Read the whole article (this is the first paragraphs) and see what u think....
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The End of the Internet
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee for virtually everything we do online.
Verizon, Comcast, Bell South and other communications giants are developing strategies that would track and store information on our every move in cyberspace in a vast data-collection and marketing system, the scope of which could rival the National Security Agency. According to white papers now being circulated in the cable, telephone and telecommunications industries, those with the deepest pockets--corporations, special-interest groups and major advertisers--would get preferred treatment. Content from these providers would have first priority on our computer and television screens, while information seen as undesirable, such as peer-to-peer communications, could be relegated to a slow lane or simply shut out.
Under the plans they are considering, all of us--from content providers to individual users--would pay more to surf online, stream videos or even send e-mail. Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received
Posted by at April 29, 2006 02:10 AMWaP0 has the cunningham story, bu the focus is on the limo company.
seriously April 29, did you think the Internet would be free forever? Controlling the Internet is the single most pressing problem for anyone seeking to control the population - in any country. Making people pay for it will drastically cut use, and drastically increase the control of the messages sent over it. IF the GOP continues to control Congress, much less the WH, the days of free internet are numbered.
Posted by T2 at April 29, 2006 09:12 AMT2 I agree with you. Its just sad to see it go without most people understand what is happening. On non political sites they just go "cant happen here.." and just refuse to see whats ahead.
Posted by at April 29, 2006 09:26 AMSo MS is gaining valuable experience in China on how to muzzle and regulate the Internet, to be used here later?
Posted by TIKI AL at April 29, 2006 09:31 AMIts always hard to stuff a Genie back in the bottle. The use of the Internet has now permeated most everyone's lives as even low skill jobs have access thru browser based work applications. Industry realized this a while back and decided not to try and hardline Net use at work. So, its not necessary to be hooked up at home. Further, many Net users only surf and email, the computer is simply their tool to go online. Computer sales would plummet. Much commerce would suffer by a pricy regulation and in the end, from a Corporate view, that may not be worth the gamble. It is government regulation for the purpose of Mind Control and The Big Lie that is the biggest threat to a free internet. Every day the Bloggs flogg the 32% Bush admin, and don't think for a minute that shutting that down isn't a prime goal of the people who have brought us the Worst President Ever.
Posted by T2 at April 29, 2006 12:10 PM