The War for the Internet

A war of sorts is underway to establish control of the Internet. The sides are defined – social media’s power to the people versus pornography supported by big business. Porn’s tactics are from mean streets. The average Internet user, a novice in this battle, must be wary.

In the last year, social media – things like Facebook, Twitter, etc. – has eclipsed porn as the most popular reason for people to be online.

There was a time a few years ago that porn had a commanding share of Internet capacity … more than email, governments and business combined. But it lost it to social media’s popularity.

Now, supported by investment and involvement by some of America’s largest corporations who have a major stake in profits from porn – as detailed by former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges in his new book, “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” – porn is fighting back.

Most visible are aggressive efforts by the evil and invisible porn empire to hijack Twitter, Facebook and blog accounts and use them to promote lonely, sexy girls looking for company. If you make the slightest mistake and click on an innocent-looking direct message, clever virus software will snatch control of your account. The tactics of this war for the Internet are sophisticated technology, dark, dirty and vicious.

Hedges chronicles that enormous money is behind pornography online. Comcast, AT&T and GM “rake in approximately 80 percent of all porn dollars spent by consumers.” Shareholder value of these corporates depends on porn.

Wait a minute! Aren’t we taxpayers a major shareholder in GM?! Yes … even GM is involved.

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