ARPANET, the Beginning of the Internet
Libertarians often cite the internet as a case in point that liberty is the mother of innovation. Opponents quickly counter that the internet was a government program, proving once again that markets must be guided by the steady hand of the state. In one sense the critics are correct, though not in ways they understand. The internet indeed began as a typical government program, the ARPANET, designed to share mainframe computing power and to establish a secure military communications network. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), now DARPA, of the United States Department of Defense, funded the original network.
Of course the designers could not have foreseen what the (commercial) internet has become. Still, this reality has important implications for how the internet works — and explains why there are so many roadblocks in the continued development of online technologies. It is only thanks to market participants that the internet became something other than a typical government program: inefficient, overcapitalized, and not directed toward socially useful purposes.
Chronological History of Internet Related Events
Whistleblower Edward Snowden Reveals that through PRISM, the NSA Began Spying on Americans through ‘Social’ Providers
On Jun. 06, 2013, thanks to NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden, we learned that all the large online "social" providers were creations and certainly tools of their U.S. government spy state cronies in a program called PRISM. This strategy was hatched during the Clinton administration by his spy master advisor, Harvard law professor James P. Chandler, later Leader Technologies' patent attorney. AT&T played too. What is Prism? ...
NSA Director James Clapper Lies to Congress about NSA Spying on Americans
On Mar. 12, 2013, NSA Director James R. Clapper lied to Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Congress: Sen. Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions, of Americans?" Gen. Clapper replied untruthfully: "No, sir," rubbing his head. Sen. Wyden asked, "It does not?" Still rubbing his head, Clapper hedged, knowing the NSA was engaged in high crimes ...
Aaron Swartz, Reddit Co-Founder and Hero that Saved the Internet, Found Hanged in Apartment
26-year-old Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, who also co-wrote RSS (while 13 & 14 years old) and was an Internet activist (who helped save the internet), reportedly hanged himself in his apartment. He was either driven to suicide by a couple of corrupt overzealous attorneys that constantly harassed him or suicided. Propaganda was put out that he had battled depression and he was also facing jail time ...
U.S. Army Sponsored Artificial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future – ‘Minority Report’ Style
In something that looks straight out of the CBS show "Person of Interest", the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by the United States Army Research Laboratory, the Carnegie Mellon researchers presented an artificial intelligence system that can watch and predict what a person will 'likely' do in the future using specially programmed software designed to ...
Security Week computer security analyst Jesus Oquendo published an article titled “Microsoft, the CIA and NSA Collude to Take Over the Internet”
Clever security researchers have uncovered the biggest security Coup d'état on the planet. Microsoft, the NSA, the CIA have all been colluding to create the most bloated covert piece of malware known to exist for 5 years [1] undetected. Microsoft decided somewhere along 2006 and 2007, that it was willing to throw away half of their market share (128 billion) in allowing this to occur [2] ...
Report: Facebook Is The Perfect Technocracy
Let's stipulate that Facebook is not a country, that real governments fulfill many more functions, and that people are not citizens of their social networks.Nonetheless, 900 million human beings do something like live in the blue-and-white virtual space of the world's largest structured web of people. And those people get into disputes that they expect to be adjudicated. They have this expectation in part because Facebook ...
Patent Office Director David J. Kappos Ordered an Unprecedented Third Reexamination of Leader’s Patent to PTAP even after Facebook had Failed on the Same Arguments 4 Times
Patent Office Director David J. Kappos ordered an unprecedented third reexamination of Leader’s patent to the Patent Trial and Appeals Board ("PTAB"), even after Facebook had failed on the same arguments four times previously. Kappos assigned a former IBM and Microsoft employee, Stephen C. Siu, as chief judge and staffed this PTAB kangaroo court with IBM, Xerox and Microsoft cronies—who had collectively issued over 169 patents ...
IBM sold 750 “junk” patents to Facebook, their Eclipse offspring, Likely so Facebook Could Harass other Tech Companies as IBM had done in the 90’s
IBM holds over 67,000 patents, the most in the world. Pundits know well that IBM does not sell their valuable patents. IBM creates and holds good patents. However, in the late 1990's, David J. Kappos and James P. Chandler began a "patent trolling" program to attack the industry with IBM patents of little or no value. The objective was to use IBM market power to cajole ...
KONY 2012: State Propaganda for a New Generation. An Orchestrated Campaign to Justify US Military Intervention in Africa
The overnight viral sensation KONY 2012 brought worldwide awareness to the African war criminal Joseph Kony. Beneath this commendable cause, lies however an elaborate agenda that is presented in the video in a very manipulative way. We’ll look at the agenda behind KONY 2012 and how it uses reverse psychology to not only justify a military operation in Africa, but to actually have people demand it ...
The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) Bills to End Internet Freedom were Defeated
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (also known as the E-PARASITE Act, House Bill 3261, or H.R. 3261) was a bill that was being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives that was demanded by the wealthy corporations as well as the music and film industry. If passed, this bill would impose a number of controversial measures for dealing with online piracy including the distribution of copyrighted material via ...
