Vomiting and Screaming

Avedon Carol brings attention to the overt attempts to choke off small news sources.

Money quote:

Do the people who created this situation really want to "educate" readers about important social and political matters? No, of course they don't. They want to drive out any information that interferes with their corporate agenda. They want "free speech" to be a protection for them from accountability and competition, but to be too expensive for the rest of us.

Our taxes paid for the development of the internet, and our participation helped it evolve into something that people want to use. We already pay commercially for the equipment to use it, the software, and the bandwidth. Now they want to tax us into silence so that they can monopolize speech here, too. No surprises. And no shame.

Yeah, they think totalitarian/authoritarian censorship is soo good! that they want to bring it back under the cloak of capitalism.