Showing the way things were in 1939
Category: World news
This is not 1939 related but it’s important. I have mentioned it twice before:
When it was at risk of being eliminated: https://1939socal.wordpress.com/2017/07/12/net-neutrality-day/
And when it actually was eliminated: https://1939socal.wordpress.com/2017/12/14/end-of-net-neutrality/ .
Now it’s been restored. Hooray! See the details here: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-04-26/after-a-years-long-pause-the-fcc-resurrects-network-neutrality-a-boon-for-consumers .
Southern California detail and full image distributed to newspapers on Oct. 3, 1939 by Acme news photo service.
Cropped image of text accompanying the picture.
Image: darkness brought to you by the opponents of net neutrality.
Today the U.S. Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/politics/net-neutrality-latest/index.html .
An editorial in The Guardian on December 13, 2017 explains the situation:
“Net neutrality is a rule against censorship and manipulation. It means that if you are a broadband provider, like AT&T, Verizon or Google Fiber, you cannot discriminate in favor of or against any of your customers. You aren’t allowed to carry the content or data of one website or video provider at one price and the content or data of another website or video provider at a different price. You can’t censor, throttle, or slow the carrying of data for any but technical reasons.
“With net neutrality in place, whether you are a newspaper, a blogger discussing sexual assault, a video provider, or someone filming a public official at a town hall, Verizon or AT&T can’t slow or block your ability to put your content online and speak. Without it, they effectively can.”
Excerpt from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/13/net-neutrality-corporate-power-monopolies-ajit-pai . Click on the link to learn more.
More here: http://www.businessinsider.com/fcc-to-vote-on-net-neutrality-repeal-2017-12 .
And more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/opinions/importance-net-neutrality-opinion-baker/index.html .
Image: September 1, 1939 Los Angeles Times newspaper front page.
This act of war marked the beginning of what was later called World War II.
“By the start of the Great Depression in 1929, America was mostly unarmed and determined never to get involved in European feuding again. Most Americans complained that the huge death toll of World War I had led to neither perpetual peace nor even a peaceful Germany.
“America’s isolationism and disarmament also helped prompt another global war. Had the U.S. kept its military strong after World War I, and had it entered into a formal alliance with its former World War I partners, Germany never would have risked a second war against the combined strength of a fully armed Britain, France and United States.
“Instead, Hitler assumed the U.S. either could not or would not offer much military help to his intended European targets.”
Excerpt from an editorial comparing events then to those today: http://www.investors.com/politics/on-the-right/appeasement-collaboration-isolationism-its-looking-like-europe-39/ . The excerpt and link is to an opinion piece and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of this blogger. It provides a concise description of the situation. There is no shortage of opinions from scholars, politicians and many, many others about the influence of events before the invasion of Poland.
Although the United States did not officially declare war until Dec. 11, 1941 it assisted in supplying war materiél to Allies in Europe before then. Manufacturers in southern California were instrumental in building aircraft and myriad other products. That resulted in significant economic and other changes beginning in the late 1930s..
1939 Southern California 