The biggest
Internet scam of all time was letting people believe, for a very short while, that it was the
information superhighway.
As we all know, our
corporate masters afforded that brief bit of
pseudo-freedom to catch us all
hook, line, and sinker. Now the Internet has taken its more true form --
e-commerce, which is good for everybody, right? In case you
had no idea, for you had been living in a cave, for the last decade, on Mars, with your eyes shut and your fingers in your ears, the Internet went from being all about
information and
sharing,
enlightenment and the
pleasure of knowledge to
banner ads,
online stores and
shopping, and about
twenty-five thousand e-commerce sites, about twenty-thousand of without which we could all do. Now that we're all
addicted to the Internet, we're forced to live with whatever our
corporate masters wish to
spoon feed us and we must adhere to their
archaic,
Draconian restrictions (see:
MP3,
DVD,
CSS).
The second greatest Internet scam of all time involved about
three-hundred Linux companies and the promise that once they
went public they'd make everybody
a whole lot of money. They're now dropping faster than
8 year olds in a
Malaysian Nike factory.