Finalmente qualcosa di sensato: "Soltanto lo Stato può liberalizzare Internet". Si può fare un confronto con la bieca retorica di propaganda dei manager di Google [SGA].
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Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable
analyses of the Internet’s effect on us and our world, oscillating
between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W.
McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship
between economic power and the digital world.
McChesney’s award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect,
McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances
of the digital age. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement
of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology
and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other
policies have made the internet a place of numbing commercialism. A
handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google,
which garners a 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to
Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the
world’s computers. Capitalism’s colonization of the Internet has spurred
the collapse of credible journalism and made the Internet an
unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance and a
disturbingly antidemocratic force.
In Digital Disconnect,
Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking critique of the Internet,
urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital
revolution while we still can.
Robert McChesney e la Rete
«Il capitalismo ha modellato le tecnologie facendone concentrazioni di ricchezza Soltanto lo Stato può liberalizzare Internet»
Serena Danna La Lettura
AP
Intervista a Eric Schmidt e Jared Cohen, il presidente esecutivo di
Google e il direttore di Google Ideas. In un libro passano in rassegna
gli scenari positivi e le insidie connessi alla “nuova era digitale”
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