Comments on: The communication commons against corporate social media and the ‘recuperation’ of the Internet by capital https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-communication-commons-against-corporate-social-media-and-the-%e2%80%98recuperation%e2%80%99-of-the-internet-by-capital/2011/05/31 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.14 By: H Luce https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-communication-commons-against-corporate-social-media-and-the-%e2%80%98recuperation%e2%80%99-of-the-internet-by-capital/2011/05/31/comment-page-1#comment-551924 Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:02:26 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=16370#comment-551924 and then the new counter-structure will be regulated out of existence, by one means or another: http://techliberation.com/2010/12/19/regulatory-capture-what-the-experts-have-found/

100 years ago, under the liberal democrat Woodrow Wilson:

“If the government is to tell big business men how to run their business, then don’t you see that big business men have to get closer to the government even than they are now? Don’t you see that they must capture the government, in order not to be restrained too much by it? Must capture the government? They have already captured it. Are you going to invite those inside to stay? They don’t have to get there. They are there.” The New Freedom: A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (1913) at 201-202, in http://techliberation.com/2010/12/19/regulatory-capture-what-the-experts-have-found/

30 years ago by Milton Friedman:

“Every act of intervention establishes positions of power. How that power will be used and for what purposes depends far more on the people who are in the best position to get control of that power and what their purposes are than on the aims and objectives of the initial sponsors of the intervention.” Free to Choose (1980) at 193, ibid.

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