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If you’re here, you’re on the internet. Few tools have become so essential to modern day life as the internet. It affects everything we do, from work, to school, to banking, to keeping in touch with friends and family. With something so important, obviously capitalism had to get involved and monetize it. So how did this happen? How did the internet go from a modern Library of Alexandria to just another strip mall?
How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
Internet for the People (main video source)
Internet usage statistics
Facebook and abortion
Amazon and the police
Twitter and the far right
⅓ of Americans don’t have broadband
American high cost of internet
Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructure
Meta mergers & acquisitions
Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitions
Amazon Web Services
Publicly owned internet networks
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