{"id":2300,"date":"2014-07-11T18:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2014-07-11T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T15:31:35","slug":"the-plan-to-kill-the-internet-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeadvancer.com\/the-plan-to-kill-the-internet-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plan To Kill The Internet Uncovered: 10 Ways Web Freedom Is Being Butchered Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
Affording billions of people worldwide not only the tool of instant communication but access to a wealth of liberating information. Freedom from the chains of received consensus, and the opportunity to become their own media platform.<\/p>\n
This represents an ever-increasing threat to the status quo of the elite, which is why the establishment is working feverishly to dismantle the freedom granted by the world wide web in its current form.<\/p>\n
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently gave the green light for large Internet Service Providers to create a two-tier Internet system which would allow large corporations to buy up dedicated faster bandwidth, ending net neutrality and potentially leaving smaller websites in the dust.<\/p>\n
If passed this will allow the\u00a0\u201ctelevization\u201d\u00a0of the Internet, resulting in large companies forming monopolies and restricting consumer choice.<\/p>\n
\n\u201c[S]maller companies that can\u2019t afford to pay for faster delivery would likely face additional obstacles against bigger rivals. And consumers could see a trickle-down effect of higher prices as Web sites try to pass along new costs of doing business with Internet service providers,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>reports the Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
For almost a decade, we have\u00a0warned of plans to create an \u2018Internet 2\u2032\u00a0under which the old Internet would be left to crumble and die, eviscerating the world wide web as a tool of free speech that allows independent voices to be heard amongst the cacophony of corporate and statist propaganda.<\/p>\n
2. Intelligence Agencies are Manipulating the Internet With Deliberate Disinformation<\/h3>\n
Documents recently released\u00a0by whistleblower Edward Snowden confirm that western intelligence agencies are deliberately flooding the web with disinformation in order to,\u00a0\u201cinject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets.\u201d<\/p>\n
These techniques are intended to\u00a0\u201ccontrol, infiltrate, manipulate, and warp online discourse,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which has the effect of, \u201ccompromising the integrity of the internet itself,\u201d\u00a0according to journalist Glenn Greenwald.<\/p>\n
3. Governments are Paying Trolls to Sway Public Opinion<\/h3>\n
In 2010, Canada\u2019s\u00a0CTV News reported\u00a0on how federal authorities were paying companies to\u00a0\u201ccorrect misinformation\u201d\u00a0on web forums.<\/p>\n
The Turkish, Israeli and Chinese governments along with a host of others have also implemented similar programs, while the U.S. Air Force hired data security firm HBGary to create large numbers of fake social media profiles that could be used to spread propaganda while countering anti-U.S. rhetoric online.<\/p>\n
Raw Story reported\u00a0that the obvious function of the program was to\u00a0\u201cmanipulate public opinion on key information, such as news reports,\u201d\u00a0thereby creating,\u00a0\u201cthe illusion of consensus.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n
4. Mainstream News Websites are Killing Comment Sections<\/h3>\n
Although this remains a relatively rare phenomenon, increasing numbers of mainstream news websites are killing or severely restricting comment sections in order to drown out dissident voices that challenge the prevailing status quo.<\/p>\n
Studies confirm\u00a0that article comment sections \u2013 for better or worse \u2013 are heavily swaying public opinion. Popular Science recently announced its decision to kill comment sections on their website in order to silence global warming skeptics.<\/p>\n
BoingBoing.net\u00a0is following a similar track. The New York Times\u00a0also recently indicated\u00a0that it is scaling back comments and removing them from some articles altogether.<\/p>\n
The effort to kill comments is part of the establishment media\u2019s desperate effort to dictate reality and maintain a grip on manufacturing consensus in the face of a burgeoning independent media and the Internet as a vehicle of free speech in general.<\/p>\n
5. The Obama Administration\u2019s \u201cCognitive Infiltration\u201d of the Internet<\/h3>\n
In 2010, a\u00a0White House program was revealed\u00a0that centered around infiltrating conspiracy groups in order to undermine them via postings on chat rooms and social networks. Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, Obama\u2019s appointee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, spearheaded this\u00a0\u201ccognitive infiltration<\/em>\u201d\u00a0of the web and has been heralding its success ever since.<\/p>\n
Sunstein pointed out that simply having people in government refute conspiracy theories wouldn\u2019t work because they are inherently untrustworthy, making it necessary to,\u00a0\u201cEnlist nongovernmental officials in the effort to rebut the theories.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunstein suggested that\u00a0\u201cgovernment agents (and their allies<\/em>) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action.\u201d<\/p>\n
6. False Flag Cybersecurity Attacks as a Pretext to Increase Web Regulation<\/h3>\n
While constantly repeating the necessity for restrictive cybersecurity regulations to be applied to the Internet in the name of preventing cyber attacks, the United States has itself been behind all the recent major cyber attacks.<\/p>\n