tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079940018550776884.post2391322849646034056..comments2023-08-28T02:27:17.366-07:00Comments on Jaraparilla: A Short History Of Media AbuseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079940018550776884.post-79585592237729081462012-04-30T10:11:05.372-07:002012-04-30T10:11:05.372-07:00that control will always remain limited as long as...<i>that control will always remain limited as long as the Internet allows citizens to compare one outlet with another.</i><br /><br />And there lies the rub, Garyandhi. It will be SO easy for TPTB to censor/shut down teh Internets tubez, once they calculate that the damage their interests suffer from informed people outweighs the profits they are making from unfettered Internet commerce. Especially since so much of Internet activity flows through parts of the network under U.S. control. Shutting down some server farms here, a transmission hub there, it's easy to strangle the windpipe.<br /><br />There was an article in the New York Times that ran back while I was living Down Under about "the cloud" of the Internet. (Oddly, I can't find it on the Oogle to linkify to.) It laid out the architecture of the server farms, their energy usage, how their locations are deliberately kept low-key visually and mostly anonymous as far as publicly known on mapping. The brain must be keep under wraps.<br /><br />These server farms are why I can call up old pages from BushOut and even HowardOut, for instance. But simply shutting off power to certain metal boxes would be the same as having a stroke in a human's brain. It will happen when TPTB decide it should. The "Internet piracy" and copyright protection law efforts are a warm-up for this.Bukko Boomerangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424677168216647964noreply@blogger.com