The Internet Was Created As A Surveillance Network

Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine documents how the internet was originally developed in the 1960s as an intelligence-gathering network. Once that network was perfected, it was unleashed onto consumers under the guise of being an educational tool of freely flowing information when in reality it’s an educational tool for the government to gain free information on you. The form of the internet you see today is no accident—it was carefully guided and nurtured by the U.S. government through its u...