"In April and May, everybody abandoned the Internet stocks and went back into the old world.
But losses mounted as advertisers abandoned the Internet and, with little prospect for profits, NetEase started shopping itself to prospective buyers several months ago.
Usl abandoned the Internet, turned on the radio for escape, and there learned that he, Usl, was a too sensitive behemoth who needed to be *#&$ed in his cookie-dough face; also, that he should eat celery.
Since the release of classified diplomatic cables a week ago, from a batch of more than 250,000 obtained by WikiLeaks, the Web site has been bombarded by cyberattacks and abandoned by Internet companies like PayPal, an online payment service that had accepted donations for the site, and Amazon, which had rented it server space.
And in Blackfoot, Idaho, teachers at Groveland Elementary abandoned an Internet-based social studies program that required current news to be downloaded overnight, because computer glitches made the program unreliable.
But could we become more secure without abandoning the internet?
Before abandoning the Internet to corporate hegemony, we should first ask why the wideband speeds available in Manhattan since last December have been available elsewhere for almost a decade.
And even though Comedy Central developed Broad City into a proper television show that began airing in 2014, they're not abandoning their internet roots.
I used to to think of just abandoning the Internet, but it's as much a public space as the street these days... there's no avoiding it and it's my space too!
