{"id":293329,"date":"2025-04-28T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=293329"},"modified":"2025-04-20T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T10:40:38","slug":"the-secret-military-history-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/04\/the-secret-military-history-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Military History of the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2 Apr 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, &#8220;<em>Surveillance Valley<\/em>,&#8221; and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Secret Military History of the Internet (w\/ Yasha Levine) | The Chris Hedges Report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L1US6sxgKrc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times<em>,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, <em>and<\/em> NPR<em>. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America<em> show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Apr 2025 &#8211; The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, &#8220;Surveillance Valley,&#8221; and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[910,1282,2462,1706,112,1277,1010,1006,1109,911,2200,95],"class_list":["post-293329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-big-brother","tag-internet","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-mind-control","tag-pentagon","tag-privacy-rights","tag-silicon-valley","tag-social-media","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-us-empire","tag-us-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293331,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293329\/revisions\/293331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}