Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation
In their efforts to control people and protect profits, governments and associated industries (often in league with powerful Internet Service Providers — ISPs — who in some respects are admittedly caught in the middle), seem willing to impose draconian, ultimately fascist censorship, identification, and other controls on the Internet and its users, even extending into the basic hardware in our homes and offices. I’ve invoked fascism in this analysis , and I do not do so lightly.
Via lauren.vortex.com
Lauren Weinstein’s Blog: The Coming Fascist Internet
Published in Demand Transformation
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