david: all previous forms of media-television, radio, newspapers, etc.-have been monopolized by corporations. it seems that they cant monopolize the internet. do you think that this will make a difference sociologically? bruce: ive got about fifteen different problems with that entire set of formulations there. (laughter) if you mean that, people who are using the internet for noncommercial reasons are likely dominate, yeah, i think theres a pretty good chance of that actually-because the internet was not invented by corporations. it was basically invented by the military and science-basic science and computer scientists. a few darpa grants here and there kind of got that whole thing steamrolling. and when the internet was first invented-arpanet, milnet, and so forth-there was never an idea that it was ever going to become a commercial operation. so its a very 1990s kind of rhetoric to say, well, everything is going to be privatized and commercialized by large companies-until you look at areas where this commercialization isnt happening, and those areas are frequently a lot worse: they are criminalized or militarized. after awhile you may plead for your kindly corporate dominance-after youve seen the nature of paramilitary warlord regime.  favelas. favelas as far as the eye can see! as long as that border stays open, because the ppl in charge literally are replacing 'uppity', high-maintenence 'slaves' with very pleased to be here, 12 people to a 3 bedroom, sleep in your garage and eat your pizza crusts for a chance, just a chance, to clean your restaurant floor with my tongue.   -sterling/2/
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