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I have a rather broad but simple interpretation of politics. To me politics is power over and control of others, pure and simple. It can be found everywhere, not just in government.

Very little of the material presented here is original. I am an aggregator of sorts, a purveyor of ideas. Watch now you don't fall in the quicksand. None escapes this freakin' political mire who does.

Although my personal leaning is toward libertarianism, I've made no attempt to avoid contradiction in post selections here. I've just jumped into multiple quagmires simultaneously for your erudition and my own.

Should all precaution fail and we sink in the morass just keep in mind no human situation is simple. Stay calm and for heaven's sake don't flail about. Help is surely on the way.

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January 30, 2012

Who Owns The Internet?

Consent of the Networked

by NPR STAFF January 30, 2012

While the Internet may aid the spread of democracy, democracy doesn’t necessarily mean a free and open Internet. In her new book Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, Rebecca MacKinnon, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and co-founder of Global Voices, a citizen media network, investigates the corrosion of civil liberties by the governments and corporations that control the digital world.

“The critical question is: How do we ensure that the Internet develops in a way that is compatible with democracy?” MacKinnon tells Morning Edition’s Renee Montagne.

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