In light of the SCOTUS ruling, time to update Orwell

[Kelvin Mace]

George Orwell once said, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." I present the 21st century version of this quote now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are oppressed people who MUST BE HEARD.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a 1000 broadcast channels, and all of them Fox News - Forever."

[ShortnFiery]

1. Here ya go: 9-11 allowed our Fascist Makeover to become complete.

[ThomWV]

3. Extra equal satisfied. Tnks.

[Kelvin Mace]

5. *sigh*

so true....

[Larkspur]

2. And kiss Net Neutrality good-bye

[Kelvin Mace]

6. Yep, the first thing to go

I just posted this on my blog:

The first casualty of this ruling is going to be net neutrality. Telecomms are going to pull out the stops to smear any politician or official who supports it. If a law does pass, Scalia will strike it down, since it will "infringe" on corporate free speech. With a law protecing the level playing field gone, it's all down hill. Once the media (print, broadcast, and online) realize that they can use this ruling to destroy any official or candidate who wants to reverse the alarming consolidation that has happened in the last half century, Jerome Corsi will be hired as a programming director for "documentaries" that will air in prime time "exposing" anyone who opposes the corporate will. Liberal voices won't be banned outright, but will be marginalized, then pushed out because they can't afford to pay for bandwidth (net/satellite/broadcast). Deals will be struck with the big boys to initially give their stuff (all corporate-approved, anti-consumer) priority handling, then, the little guys will be hit with "premium" fees until they are bankrupt.

The gist of this ruling is, the people with money are entitled to the loudest voice and can drown out everyone who disagrees with them and doesn't have money, i.e. 99% of the populace.

[Jim__]

4. Orwell - he would clarify this situation.

In "protecting free speech for corporations", the court just destroyed free speech for individuals. Few individuals will be able to make their voice heard against the much amplified voices of Big Money.

[PinkoDonkey]

7. Yeah. This is double plus ungood.

[izzybeans]

8. He would wonder why we fought so hard against fascism in the early part of last century

only to acquiesce to it at the early part of this one. Though Orwell preferred oligarchical collectivism. This ruling upholding corporate personhood subordinates the individual to the bureaucracy, so its perfectly Orwellian.

Hearing anyone defend this ruling is like listening to O'Brien school Winston in the torture room.

[Orsino]

9. He's wrong about the forever part.

We are on course for a collapse, just like every other empire. Our government will be reformed, or it will be replaced by one or more other governments.