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Great Obama
Firewall Descends Upon
“Just as we are beginning to see the power that free resources
produce, changes in the architecture of the Internet--both legal and
technical--are sapping the Internet of this power. Fueled by bias in favor of
control, pushed by those whose financial interest favor control, our social and
political institutions are ratifying changes in the Internet that will
reestablish control, in turn, reduce innovation on the Internet and in society
generally.”
Lawrence Lessig,
director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University
Special Report from Sister Ciara
In a world where the United Nations' Human
Rights Council unanimously ruled that Internet access is
a human right, a committee of the European Parliament voted to protect
the Internet for their citizens, the nation of Finland became the first
country in the world to declare broadband
Internet access a legal right, and the peoples of South Korea, Switzerland,
Germany, France (to just name a few) pay an average of $25.00
a month for a 500 Mbps connection that's 58 times faster than the US average
which people in New York pay in excess of $300.00 a month for…this past week
has seen what is being called “The Great Obama
Firewall” descend upon the United
States and its nearly 314 million citizens.
Though similar to The Golden Shield
Project (colloquially referred to as the Great Firewall of China), which is
an Internet censorship and surveillance project operated by the Ministry of
Public Security division of the government of China since 2003, “The Great Obama Firewall” is infinitely more insidious as it now allows only the
few largest Internet firms in the United States to control 90% of the news and
information to be seen the American public.
The genesis of “The Great Obama Firewall” began with The Telecommunications Act of
1996 that the American people were told would usher in a new era of
competition, but who got just the opposite when the number of companies that
control their media went from around 50 in the 1980s to six
today, and all while having their local media coverage being decimated and
leaving them with the illusion of infinite choice when what they really have is
one oligopolistic corporate voice controlling nearly everything they read, see
and hear.
Even worse are that
these few behemoth corporations controlling all of the information in America
were only able to accomplish this by a mandated provision of The
Telecommunications Act of 1996 called the Universal Service Fund (USF) that paid
for (and is still paying for) the entire
broadband Internet infrastructure throughout the United States with their own
citizens tax dollars!
To understand how
this was able to come about one has to understand that the telecommunication
industry is one of the biggest lobbying groups in the US, and it exerts
tremendous influence over the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which is often thought of as a classic “captured agency”
— one that is run by the very people and businesses it’s supposed to be
regulating.
The “revolving door” between the FCC and
industry is evident in President Obama’s recent appointment of new FCC Chairman
Tom
Wheeler, a telecom lobbyist and venture capitalist who is called an “Obama loyalist” willing to do anything
to protect his industries interests against the rights of the American people.
An example of who
Obama’s “captured agency” FCC
protects is former Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg who said
that web applications (like search engines, online video, VoIP telephone) need
to “share the cost” of broadband - broadband that's already been paid
for by the American people! “We
have to make sure that they [application providers] don't sit on our network
and chew up bandwidth. We need to pay for the pipe.”
Now to fully understand how “The Great Obama Firewall” being implemented by the FCC is going to change
forever the entire American culture forever you need to know the significance
of the Net Neutrality ruling just handed
down this week by Obama’s Federal Court in
In its simplest terms, Net Neutrality is the
principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data
on the Internet equally, not discriminating or charging differentially by user,
content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment, and modes of
communication.
What’s new with this latest Obama court
decision is that the same amount of bandwidth may now cost more for some uses
than others, and many uses could be limited — or even
excluded entirely. It’s as though
the delivery speed of two identical pieces of mail depended upon who dropped
them in the mailbox — or the price of a telephone call varied based upon what
the caller happens to say while on the line.
Former FCC commissioner Michael Copps in 2010
warned about the dangers of this happening when he told the New York Times that
he wanted to make sure the Internet “doesn’t
travel down the same road of special interest consolidation and gate-keeper
control that other media and telecommunications industries — radio, television,
film and cable—have traveled.” “What
an historic tragedy it would be,” he said, “to
let that fate befall the dynamism of the Internet.”
Well, I’m sorry to tell you all, but this “historic tragedy” is now a reality in
Even as I write these words, the “algorithms
of censorship and control” are now being unleashed upon the entire
United States secreting out and destroying every dissenting website, blog,
Facebook page, Twitter comment, YouTube video, you name it…ANYTHING AND
EVERYTHING on the Internet in America relating to information you are not
allowed to know about is being systematically eradicated.
The ONLY protections you have left behind “The Great Obama Firewall” are those sites, like ours, which continue to defy
these monster corporations and their political lapdogs to continue our missions
to keep you informed with the TRUTH!
But we can ONLY survive you help us! And if you don’t, one morning you awaken and
live in a world where the “main news”
for the day headlining every news site you go to will be about some young boy
singer who got arrested for drink driving…instead of the “REAL” news that you
need to keep you informed about the world you’re living in.
It will get worse before it gets better…but
in helping us today, and others like us, at least you’ll be assured that the
truth will keep flowing to you…no matter what happens.
With God,
Sister Ciara
24 January 2014
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