What's My Line?
In this case it refers to which cable conglomerate controls the free flow of information in your area. What happened to the free market and free enterprise in the telecomm industry?
We live in an era where more and more opportunities for open communication are available -- this blog is proof! But the control over how you disseminate those communications is increasingly manipulated by a select few (the cable oligarchy) who dictate quality, quantity and pricing! The constant consolidation in the telecomm industry has once again led us into an era in which we must first ask what a monopoly is, and secondly, who is watching the watchers?
How is possible in this day and age 100 years after The Muckraker was published, we can be mired in a morass of price-fixing, regionalism and corporate dominance? As much as we believe that there are no political solutions, I am quite clear about the complicity of authorities who, while supposedly serving the public, act as facilitators of abusive business practices. Perhaps this is due to the trade-offs between corporate and government entities that allow free access to our communications by our leaders and the robber barons who gouge consumers at will, while providing this information!
Once again, we the people are being slammed between two leviathans bent on controlling our every move. The hideous truth is that they are condemning us to a world in which we have to say what they want to hear, and to add insult to injury must pay a king's ransom to say it!
So what are we advocating? We believe each individual in the land of the free stand up and speak out on what form may be available against the tyranny of these all-too-real weapons of mass distraction!
In this case it refers to which cable conglomerate controls the free flow of information in your area. What happened to the free market and free enterprise in the telecomm industry?
We live in an era where more and more opportunities for open communication are available -- this blog is proof! But the control over how you disseminate those communications is increasingly manipulated by a select few (the cable oligarchy) who dictate quality, quantity and pricing! The constant consolidation in the telecomm industry has once again led us into an era in which we must first ask what a monopoly is, and secondly, who is watching the watchers?
How is possible in this day and age 100 years after The Muckraker was published, we can be mired in a morass of price-fixing, regionalism and corporate dominance? As much as we believe that there are no political solutions, I am quite clear about the complicity of authorities who, while supposedly serving the public, act as facilitators of abusive business practices. Perhaps this is due to the trade-offs between corporate and government entities that allow free access to our communications by our leaders and the robber barons who gouge consumers at will, while providing this information!
Once again, we the people are being slammed between two leviathans bent on controlling our every move. The hideous truth is that they are condemning us to a world in which we have to say what they want to hear, and to add insult to injury must pay a king's ransom to say it!
So what are we advocating? We believe each individual in the land of the free stand up and speak out on what form may be available against the tyranny of these all-too-real weapons of mass distraction!
Willy Gilly
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