How the Internet was Stolen. The Weaponization of the Age of Information to Enslave Humanity

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How the Internet was Stolen. The Weaponization of the Age of Information to Enslave Humanity
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From the Utopia of the Age of Information
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To the Dystopian Nightmare and Digital Fascism of the Age of Disinformation
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How the World's Greatest Invention that was Supposed to Set us Free, Became the Ultimate Weapon of Spying, Propaganda, Systematic Monopolies and Social Control.
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I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft's antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents.
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Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians.
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Finally, we take a look at some alternatives.
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Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet 04:06 – Building the Net 20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States) 44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind) 01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism) 01:18:05 – Facebook 01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber) 01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams) 01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft 01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives
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