Open Internet, It Was Nice Knowing You

The problem is, in the eyes of the Company, be they DINOcrat or Rethuglican, an open web is the most revolutionary threat they've ever faced.

Today, the open web got canned in Congress, and people are saying that's okay, because the momentum is in our favor.

Pardon me while the mind boggles a bit at that statement.

It's not just the progressive blogsphere that's against this. The web saavy wingnuts hate it too. From Eschaton to Little Green Footballs [no, I'm not gonna link to those clowns], people are pissed about fencing in the internet.

We're taking about thousands, maybe even millions of people mobilizing against the telecorps' lobbyists... and still losing this in the House.

This kind of thing isn't a new phenomenon. Check out this video clip from Saturday Night Live in 1991. It got edited out in the re-runs, no surprise.

The emergent and convergent Company is not going to give up on this, even if some Congress members get turned in this $election year. A free press, an internet where anyone can examine anyone else's electronically published ideas, is something Bu$hCo does not like. ChancellorSecretary Rumsfeld has declared information war on newsrooms around the world, and when you're reading this blog among others you're reading the information he doesn't want you to know about. The DINOcrats don't like it either: how can the Joementum or the Senator from Citibank get rolling if every progressive blogger is busy trying to steal his hubcaps and flatten his tires?

This is yet another issue we're going to lose if we don't regain control of the electoral process. Brothers and sisters, keeping morale up isn't bad, but let's can the momentum silliness this year. The Company has a roll on lately, too.