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Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:47 PM Sep 2013

What good is a Media Monopoly if everyone uses the Internet for news?

I mean, you can't commit wars crimes anymore without some fringe website revealing the details.



You know how much MONEY goes into over-producing the news, buying up newspapers and radio stations?

This Citizen Journalism thing Has to be Stopped!

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What good is a Media Monopoly if everyone uses the Internet for news? (Original Post) Junkdrawer Sep 2013 OP
Poppy hates most of all. orpupilofnature57 Sep 2013 #1
That's why they keep sneaking through internet regulation bills for votes tjwash Sep 2013 #2
DiFi's latest Trojan Horse.... Junkdrawer Sep 2013 #3
Yup, and the TPP will assault internet freedom, too. nt woo me with science Sep 2013 #4

tjwash

(8,219 posts)
2. That's why they keep sneaking through internet regulation bills for votes
Fri Sep 20, 2013, 08:53 PM
Sep 2013

SOPA, CISPA, CSA, SECURE-IT...mass media moguls keep on lobbying to get their filthy mitts on the control knobs of all the major ISP's.

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