How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet
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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?
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Citations and Further Reading:
Internet for the People (main video source)
https://books.google.com/books?id=auh...
https://jacobin.com/2022/06/internet-...
https://jacobin.com/2016/08/internet-...
• Why we should deprivatize the internet | B...
Internet usage statistics
https://datareportal.com/reports/digi...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/2...
Facebook and abortion
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybak...
Amazon and the police
https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/a...
Twitter and the far right
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2...
⅓ of Americans don’t have broadband
https://berniesanders.com/issues/high...
American high cost of internet
https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-...
Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructure
https://restofworld.org/2022/google-m...
Meta mergers & acquisitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
Amazon Web Services
https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-...
Publicly owned internet networks
https://www.mintpressnews.com/time-na...
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