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Re:An open letter to the media, by Anonymous by raverbashing on Friday November 08, 2013 @05:41AM (#6695477)
"However, I don't think we need to confer the rights of personhood to a corporation even though they don't have the same responsibilities or vulnerabilities. Similarly, it doesn't need to be the case that corporations should be able to extract value from the commons at the expense of the poor so that the privileged upper-middle class can have the cheapest possible gadgets."

Good, I agree with that.

But the issue with cheap gadgets goes both ways. Chinese factories allow people in India and other 3rd world countries to have a cheap (read: affordable) mobile phone.

Yes, they could pay more and give better conditions, the profit gains coming from economies of scale would still be there.

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Re:An open letter to the media, by Anonymous by autonomy77 on Friday November 08, 2013 @07:06AM (#6695636)
>>But you can't have the internet without equipment, without servers built by guess who? Corporations. Take that away: no internet.<<

Partially correct - we need equipment, but mesh networking is becoming a reality. No corporate involvement beyond the hardware.

have a look:

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/greek-off-the-grid-internet...

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Re:An open letter to the media, by Anonymous by enriquepablo on Friday November 08, 2013 @10:37AM (#6696638)
> But the issue with cheap gadgets goes both ways. Chinese factories allow people in India and other 3rd world countries to have a cheap (read: affordable) mobile phone.

And why people in 3rd world countries cannot afford expensive mobile phones? Because corporations have robbed them the value of their labour, or the environment where they live... You just seem to be confortable with the status quo, and making excuses.

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