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Part 2, "If Freedom of Speech Was Gone Would The People Notice?"


© Deborah Lagarde
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vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon [money], and to sell his country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.' " Shillum, 1996.

     The forces opposed to a free and open Internet speak in terms of "improving the Internet experience", by the use of CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, EDITORS, FILTERS, CREDIBILITY, SHAPING CONTENT, ETC, ETC. The Internet is the last and only medium of communication which until this time has not been edited, regulated, censored, shaped or controlled. It is now only a matter of time; the powers that control society will not permit so dangerous an element to remain unbridled. We can expect the NEXT GENERATION INTERNET which the government is so generously supporting, to be a regulated, controlled and useful tool of the New World Order. It will cease to be an avenue for true inquiry, but, instead will be an educational and indoctrination device. Therefore, the President has set for his goal- "every home in America connected to the Internet in the 21st century."

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