How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet

Get your first month of Audible completely free! visit https://audible.com/secondthought or text secondthought to 500-500, and check out the book that inspired this video - Ben Tarnoff s "Internet for the People" If you re here, you re on the internet. Few tools have become so essential to modern day life as the internet. It affects everything we do, from work, to school, to banking, to keeping in touch with friends and family. With something so important, obviously capitalism had to get involved and monetize it. So how did this happen? How did the internet go from a modern Library of Alexandria to just another strip mall? How Capitalism Destroyed The Internet – Second Thought SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/2nFsvTS New video every Friday! Citations and Further Reading: Internet for the People (main video source) https://books.google.com/books?id=auhOEAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover https://jacobin.com/2022/06/internet-privatization-profit-centralization-democracy https://jacobin.com/2016/08/internet-public-dns-privatization-icann-netflix/ https://youtu.be/g0euZ9iGGqI Internet usage statistics https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-global-overview-report https://www.statista.com/statistics/262340/daily-time-spent-with-digital-media-according-to-us-consumsers/ Facebook and abortion https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/08/08/facebook-abortion-teen-dms/?sh=721bdeb5579c Amazon and the police https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey/ Twitter and the far right https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/07/07/we-make-mistakes-twitters-embrace-extreme-far-right ⅓ of Americans don’t have broadband https://berniesanders.com/issues/high-speed-internet-all/ American high cost of internet https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructure https://restofworld.org/2022/google-meta-underwater-cables/ Meta mergers & acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Meta_Platforms Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet Amazon Web Services https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-using-aws Publicly owned internet networks https://www.mintpressnews.com/time-nationalize-internet/236099/ Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter: https://twitter.com/_SecondThought Patreon: https://patreon.com/secondthought BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondthought CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJR_Fq2hhYVEFS11cf1YzG27 Spaaaaaace!: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJQRpqT-hMTTFx8A6VVH3m6v What If...: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRI7VrWf_-mT0z6lrN--Cvi Popular Videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SJktA-ecJRx7ZaO9J04Kbob_u5baHxN About Second Thought: Second Thought is a channel devoted to education and analysis of current events from a Leftist perspective. Welcome! Business Email: secondthoughtchannel@gmail.com