I must repeat myself, I'm such a cheeta.

My take-away is, where would it all have gone if the Inter"web" had been allowed to evolve organically? Bill Bonner in his Daily Reckoning letter announced repeatedly that the "gubberment" was going to spend; was it $5 billion or $500 billion to dominate the Web?

And they did it. Counters stopped working. Censorship began in earnest. Everything became corporatized. Everyone noticed that searches no longer brought up real people with real products and ideas.

Facebook, overnight disintegrated, fractionalized & atomized the profiles people had created about themselves (with a Cubist vengeance that would make Picasso proud) and replaced it with utter corporate nonsense based on the key words. It's not only rock-n-roll that never forgives.

People with no office, no capital, no budget, no secretary, no business plan and most unforgivably no BOSS had infinitely more hits & eyeballs than the largest corporations. How long was that state of affairs going to last under a fascist regime?

Well "he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day."
It's round three folks