Tech Capitalists - Comrades in the Internet Struggle?

January 24, 2012

It would appear so.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo - these are the heavy tech hitters who lined up with the powerless masses to protest the now shelved SOPA & PIPA.

They're hardly acting on principle though;financial interests rather.

But it's not like the the media capitalists are going anywhere though. They know that power games take time and money; they are probably working on round 2. This is, indeed, just the beginning of the many battles that will be fought to conquer the net. It's about piracy, yes, but it's also about conquest. And in due course - we have to assume that the media and tech capitalists will unite to own the net, to own our interests and, of course, to own our "pockets."

It can't be a Google world forever, which means it can't be our world forever.

They're circling each other for now; it's just a matter of time before they circle us.

~Addis