By Rivera Sun
Truthout | Op-Ed - Sunday, 29 June 2014
Seething below the surface of citizens' outrage at the FCC proposal
to create a tiered, pay-to-play internet structure lays a story people
know so well, it could be encoded in our DNA.
The rich and powerful are stealing the commons of the people.
Comcast, Verizon and other telecom giants are the new Lairds of the
Highlands, the Marie Antoinettes, the Robber Barons of the 1890s. The
Commons are no longer large tracks of land or public grazing grounds or
local self-governance - those have already been stolen. The Commons under assault is the internet.
As with every achievement of humanity, individual sectors of the
populace try to take credit and ownership of the internet, saying, "I
created this" or "I provide the infrastructure for your access." This is
akin to saying, "I built the Empire State Building" instead of
"thousands of hardworking, impoverished Americans poured the concrete
and scaled the steel trusses; countless educators and inventors passed
the knowledge of engineering to the designers; and the banks financed
the construction with funds from war profiteering that was made on the
bloodshed of millions."
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