Thursday, March 28, 2013

Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet | Common Dreams

Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet | Common Dreams:

"“Most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the importance of capitalism in shaping and, for lack of a better term, domesticating the Internet,” says Robert W. McChesney in his illuminating new book, Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy."

No one should be surprised by this. It's a very old pattern.

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