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=auh... https://jacobin.com/2022/06/internet-... https://jacobin.com/2016/08/internet-...    • Why we should deprivatize the internet | B...   Internet usage statistics https://datareportal.com/reports/digi... https://www.statista.com/statistics/2... Facebook and abortion https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybak... Amazon and the police https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/a... Twitter and the far right https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2... ⅓ of Americans don’t have broadband https://berniesanders.com/issues/high... American high cost of internet https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-... Google and Meta buying up internet infrastructure https://restofworld.org/2022/google-m... Meta mergers & acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Google (Alphabet) mergers and acquisitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... Amazon Web Services https://www.contino.io/insights/whos-... Publicly owned internet networks https://www.mintpressnews.com/time-na... Follow and Support Second Thought! Twitter:   / _secondthought   Patreon:   / secondthought   BuyMeACoffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/secondth... CashApp: $JTChapman Watch More Second Thought: Latest Uploads:    • Плейлист   Spaaaaaace!:    • Плейлист   What If...:    • Плейлист   Popular Videos:    • Popular Videos | Second Thought   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