FOR THOSE AMONG YOU who are not yet convinced that the united states of america is owned, lock, stock, and barrel by our esteemed corporate masters, there is yet more reason for reconsideration.
hitherto any half way tech savvy citizen could get a smart phone, sign a contract, then go home and tinker with said cell phone a tad, and end up changing service from one network to another. The only problem with this was that every time it happened, no corporation made any money through said process. Intolerable, in the land of corporate profit at all cost.
now all that's about to change. beginning right about now, a mobile phone customer can still have a phone unlocked and accessable to various networks, but only by paying for the privilege to the corporate master dispensing law from on high.
another manifestation of government backing up their (and our) corporate masters, to the detriment of the lowly unempowered individual citizen. This decision, presumably renderd under the heady influence of massive corporate pressure,
comes to us via the library of congress, which has regulatory power over the telecommunications industry due to some law called something like the millenium high tech cell phone act, or whatever, promulgated during the bush administration by corporation worshipping republicans.
how would thomas jefferson, champion of individual rights and freedoms, and founder of the library of congress, react to all this? hard to tell, with the contradictory, hypocritcal amonalous being that jefferson was.. once past the age of thirty, jefferson was pretty much ready to rebel anainst anything that moved, so..maybe he would urge us to throw our portable phones in the trash.
an so the beat goes on. how long can it be until any consumer expressing a wish to change phone service providers is charged with telecommunication fornication, hauled into court, and then into the old slammer?
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