<Goddam antiestablishmentarians. Let's just ban antiestablishment speech.
>First amendment gets in the way.
<Fuck. Maybe we can get some sort of wartime justification.
>Espionage Act of 1917 gets upheld.
<Alright, at least we got that, but I'm envious of how good the U.K. is at controlling their media. Maybe we can regulate the media to encourage them into a few megacorps to at least simplify things.
>FCC established.
<Well, that worked well, maybe now we can covertly control them with spies and blackmail?
>Operation Mockingbird and COINTELPRO gets found out.
<Well fuck, we can wait until people forget about this and then try again.
>Internet comes around.
<Hm, this is going to get out of hand if we let this go. I know, let's covertly fund a few DARPA projects so we can make and control our own megacorps from the start!
>Start "LifeLog" and cancel it the same day Facebook starts up.
>Slush fund the fuck out of Google/Amazon/etc..
<Well shit, subsidizing the media directly under the guise of military projects is working a lot better than when we tried to do it surreptitiously under the CIA. Let's formalize this arrangement.
>Pass Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.
>Continue directly funding FANG.
<Hm, it looks like 12 people are trying to make an alternative to this stuff. Let's squash that right away.
>Covertly tell the two existing payment processing megacorps to squash your opponents.
How accurate is my history of the past 100 years, /liberty/?