Although most governors gave lip-service to the feedsites being egalitarian and embracing freedom of expression, the reality varied greatly from colony to colony. Unlike the “World Wide Web” on Old Earth, it was neither global nor intended as a reference grid rather it promoted the arts with an eye towards propagating colony-sanctioned attitudes and beliefs through entertainment. Using quantum computer networks, each feedsite disseminated news, art and entertainment across a large but bounded region. A number of colonial administrations sought to insure a common culture prevailed throughout their settlement, and so built communications hubs, later termed “feedsite bubs” by satirists and adopted by the human populace planetwide.
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