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Or, you can accept that the dominant forces in this country that maintain control over legislative bodies have NO interest whatsoever in having users cut into their media profit margins. Recognizing this, one might have no expectation of some benevolent change from within the government. In fact, to assume that government is some de facto concoction, and that industry and wealth has never consolidated its forces in a form perceived to be legitimate (e.g. government regulatory bodies) is folly. I suppose what I'm getting at is that reformist policies are bunk as hell, and there are few things more thrilling than watching simple grassroots things topple the foundations of dinosaur media monopolies.