0:00.0	And the Good evening. It's Tuesday, August 29th. Welcome to a new episode of
0:19.2	System Update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern, exclusively
0:25.1	here on rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
0:28.3	Tonight, when the internet first emerged in our lives in the mid 1990s.
0:32.8	It was primarily used for discrete tasks,
0:35.1	researching obscure topics, sending emails to relatives,
0:38.0	buying books.
0:39.4	Very quickly, however, it turned
0:41.1	into something vastly greater.
0:43.5	The central means that human beings throughout the West and increasingly throughout the
0:47.4	globe used to communicate with one another, to disseminate information and to organize.
0:53.6	And the original promise of the internet,
0:55.5	what all of the triumphalists championed at the start,
0:59.8	above all else, was its liberatory nature, its ability to enable human beings to do all of
1:06.2	that, to communicate, disseminate information, and organize freely, meaning without
1:11.3	the mediation of centralized state and corporate power.
1:14.1	That's what made it revolutionary.
1:16.6	And that was what the internet was at the beginning.
1:19.7	And centers of power began to become petrified by it.
1:24.0	And they at first gradually and now rapidly
1:27.4	have sought to commandeer it, to limit it, to control it,
1:30.3	above all to destroy the core freedom that one shaped it and made it so promising.
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