On January 23, 2018, the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) issued a call for progressives and progressive media to fight back against the global corporate power pyramid, which is implementing heavy censorship (and here) on the Internet under the guise of protecting us from #fakenews and #foreignagents. Like the apocryphal quote attributed to Joseph Goebbels--"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty."--the cartel is trying to distract us from their own strategy. Their intelligence services have the technical capability of creating false URLs to make it look like web attacks are coming from Russia and elsewhere (and here). In fact, the entire #fakenews meme is a creation of the corporate cartel, which created click-bait sites for the purpose of providing an excuse to implement censorship
The reason that the WSWS initiated this call is that they were the first progressive website to publicly announce that their traffic went down by 2/3 in April 2017, due to the implementation of censorship algorithms by Google, Facebook, and other corporate media levers. Since then many other sites have provided their own statistics, so the issue is well-documented. It has also created a storm on Facebook, which is blocking many people from posting links to sites that reveal verifiable data on various events.
Before we suggest specific actions to counter this fascist (i.e., corporate control over the state) onslaught, let's provide some background.
Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution contains a list of powers granted to the Congress. Among them are coining money, building roads, raising an army, and establishing a postal service.
These powers have nothing to do with political parties or economic theories. Socialism did not exist at the time. These expressed powers are sovereign powers. This should be something that all citizens, regardless of their beliefs in various political brands, can agree upon.
Foremost among these is the power to coin money, which was unconstitutionally assigned to a handful of families given control of U.S. currency via the Federal Reserve Act, passed when most of Congress had adjourned for Christmas vacation in 1913. In other words, the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel bribed enough Representatives and Senators to stick around and pass a law that pretends to preempt the Constitution; but, the law has no validity, since it is not an amendment to the Constitution.
Unfortunately, the cartel also owns the executive and judicial branches of the “U.S. Corporation,” which, today, is nothing more than a public-sector subsidiary of its parent criminal corporate structure; so, unconstitutional actions, such as the Federal Reserve Act and the Patriot Act, get a free pass, until the criminals and their minions are removed.
Putting aside, for the moment, our number one political and economic objective—the people taking back control of their central bank—consider the intent and context of the framers of the Constitution with regard to the sovereign power of creating a postal service.
At that time, sending letters by post was the only way to communicate with persons not immediately physically available, or within a reasonable riding distance by horse, carriage, or boat. As the decades and centuries passed, communications evolved. The pony express, part of the government postal service, improved mail delivery. Next, the telegraph was introduced, which significantly increased the speed of message delivery, but it was privately owned. Later, radio and television (including satellite and cable delivery) came along, and they, too, were privately owned. Finally, the Internet was created.
The creation of the Internet, by the Department of Defense and those receiving grants from the U.S. government, was largely funded by taxpayer dollars; and yet, as we are currently witnessing, private interests are attempting to hijack what has become a public utility, fundamental to interstate commerce (thus subject to federal regulation as noted in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3), as well as personal and organizational communications. Further, as the Pew Research Center noted, many Americans get their news from independent YouTube channels along the same metrics as legacy or traditional news sources, essentially making the platform a common carrier.
Yet, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996, gives big tech a “special immunity” from liability that nobody else gets, meaning social media sites can't be sued. This is transparently unconstitutional. In a 2020 lawsuit against Google, precipitated by the tech-media monopoly's removal of massive numbers of websites, the plaintiffs argue that, despite the current precedent to allow such actions, "... if a private party acts when it is encouraged or coerced by the government or its agents, then the state action theory applies and the First Amendment rights should be protected, particularly from viewpoint discrimination." The same argument is being used (in August 2020) to sue Facebook for censorship of data that runs counter to the vaccine industry, as it admits it acts in league with the CDC and WHO.
As can be easily documented with various peer-reviewed studies, the handful of families that control the Federal Reserve System, the EU Central bank (which is backed up by the Fed), and other key central banks, have leveraged their ability to create money into control over a majority of all the key corporate assets, natural resources, and governments on the planet, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of these "public sector subsidiaries."
If "rule of law" actually existed at this time, all of the banking cartel's assets and positions would be dissolved quickly, as all their political and economic assets and positions are "fruit of the poisonous tree"; that is, they have all been acquired, at their origins, via illegal activities.
Clearly, it was the intent of those who framed the Constitution that the sovereign government they were creating provide a means to facilitate communications, meaning: that forms of communication which are integral to economic exchange (access to the national marketplace) and political discourse are public utilities. Along these lines, when the FCC instituted Net Neutrality during Obama's term, it de facto established the right of the government to regulate the Internet as a public utility. The repeal of Net Neutrality by Agit Pai, a former Verizon executive, as chairman of the FCC, is also de facto recognition of such right to regulate, because the Pai did not attempt to have the courts invalidate the FCC's regulation; he simply voted to have the Commission reverse its actions. In March 2020, the DC Court of Appeals ruled that the states may proceed with constructing public networks, in which case, it would follow, that corporations which use these pathways are subject to the the 1st Amendment and its free speech guarantee.
It should also be clear, based on the aforementioned studies of the power structure, that those attempting to hijack the Internet for their own private gain and that of their corporations, are, in fact, traitors; that is, among those at the top of the corporate power pyramid that controls the "governments" of the U.S. (and other proxies, such as the UK, France, Saudi Arabia, and Israel), are foreign nationals whose interests are at odds with the citizens of the U.S. This is treason.
An excellent illustration of this is when Pai was caught on video mocking himself as pandering to the interests of the privately owned communications firms that will profit from partitioning the Internet.
The time has come for the people of the United States of America to end the legal illusion of the entity known as "the U.S.” and regain sovereign control over their country. The public utility known as the Internet is a good place to start. Here's one route to that: the states, united and severable, challenging the federal government over expressed powers. In 2020, European courts ruled that the rollback of net neutrality is illegal.
WSWS has proposed the following guidelines for the Internet as a public utility, which we believe is a good place to start the discussion, once the World Wide Web has been freed from the yoke of the Anglo-Euro-American banking cartel and its corporations:
• Safeguarding the Internet as a platform for political organization and the free exchange of information, culture and diverse viewpoints, guided by the principle that access to the Internet is a right and must be free and equally available for all.
• Uncompromising insistence on the complete independence of the Internet from control by governments and private corporations.
• Unconditional defense of net neutrality and free, unfettered and equal access to the Internet.
• The banning and illegalization of government and corporate manipulation of search algorithms and procedures, including the use of human evaluators, that restrict and block public visibility of websites.
• Irreconcilable opposition to the use of the Internet and artificial intelligence technologies to carry out surveillance of web users.
• Demanding the end to the persecution of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and the complete restoration of their personal freedom.
• Advocating the transformation of the corporate Internet monopolies into public utilities, under internationally coordinated democratic control, to provide the highest quality service, not private profit.
• The fight against Internet censorship and the defense of democratic rights cannot be conducted through appeals to capitalist governments and the parties and politicians who serve their interests, but only in uncompromising struggle against them. Moreover, this struggle is international in scope and totally opposed to every form and manifestation of national chauvinism, racism and imperialist militarism. Therefore, those who are truly committed to the defense of democratic rights must direct their efforts to the mobilization of the working class of all countries.
Copyright 2018, Robert Bows.
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