A Short History of the Internet
by nano Sunday, May 4 2014, 12:48am
international / prose / post

The Internet was invented by a bunch of university hacks to facilitate data and information sharing for the enhancement of humankind -- bottom line. It was intended to be a free medium of communication where users could freely engage in private conversations anonymously or otherwise. It was an incredibly convenient and hyper-efficient development.

For decades it functioned in that mode but then government agencies decided that a free medium of communication presented a danger (to people with much to hide) and have since been developing ways and means by which the internet could be brought under State/corporate control by a bunch of unrepresentative military men, killers and various other assortments of easily identifiable conservative sociopaths that fear ALL forms of FREEDOM!

That’s it in a nutshell. And so we arrive at the current crossroads today. The medium has not yet been fully captured and free speech is too hot an issue for States to openly oppose.

If the people value their last few real freedoms, they are easily able by popular demand and other readily accessible means, to reverse the very sick trend toward a TOTALITARIAN STATE. However, if the people fail to act to preserve their rights and freedoms, of course they will lose them ALL.

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2014/05/02-0