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If you're here, you're on the internet. Few tools have become so essential to modern day life as the internet. It affects everything we do, from work, to school, to banking, to keeping in touch with friends and family. With something so important, obviously capitalism had to get involved and monetize it. So how did this happen? How did the internet go from a modern Library of Alexandria to just another strip mall?
How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Internet for the People (main video source)
https://books.google.com/books?id=auhOEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/internet-privatization-profit-centralization-democracy
https://jacobin.com/2016/08/internet-public-dns-privatization-icann-netflix/
https://youtu.be/g0euZ9iGGqI
Internet usage statistics
https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-global-overview-report
https://www.statista.com/statistics/262340/daily-time-spent-with-digital-media-according-to-us-consumsers/
Facebook and abortion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/?sh=721bdeb5579c
Amazon and the police
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey/
Twitter and the far right
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-right
⅓ of Americans don’t have broadband
https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/
American high cost of internet
https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc
Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructure
https://restofworld.org/2022/google-meta-underwater-cables/
Meta mergers & acquisitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms
Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet
Amazon Web Services
https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-using-aws
Publicly owned internet networks
https://www.mintpressnews.com/time-nationalize-internet/236099/
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