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| "Lockdown"! Enough is enough, but it won't stop things. Since our President in league with our Corporate America, spy institutions, compliant Congress and now ISPs are on the same team there are no reasons to think that freedom on the internet is any more of a "right" than rights we lost to them in our daily lives over the past seven years. This is a VERY SERIOUS situation indeed. While the words "Orwell" and "Orwellian" have lost their potential to incite alarm, perhaps we should reinvent Mr. Ray Bradbury's model for showing us how to cope with what clearly is a growing fascism using the tools of technology in a totalitarian manner. No, I will not hide my books. No, I will not hide my opinions, thoughts and ideas. No, I will not enable these forces by censoring myself in a public venue (the internet). No, I will not be a Fahrenheit 451 person! But if the penalties for doing such make it necessary, then it IS time to "pull the plug" from the monster network or be a victim of "lockdown" - from censorship and self-censorship, from McCarthyism, from freedom-burners. All it takes is to pull the ethernet plug and turn off the wireless adapter and say goodbye to that which was once the internet but is no more. Truly, that is a choice many of us are considering, and it is very sad but real. | |
patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by mbucci :
Enough is enough, but it won't stop things. Since our President in league with our Corporate America, spy institutions, compliant Congress and now ISPs are on the same team there are no reasons to think that freedom on the internet is any more of a "right" than rights we lost to them in our daily lives over the past seven years. This is a VERY SERIOUS situation indeed. While the words "Orwell" and "Orwellian" have lost their potential to incite alarm, perhaps we should reinvent Mr. Ray Bradbury's model for showing us how to cope with what clearly is a growing fascism using the tools of technology in a totalitarian manner. No, I will not hide my books. No, I will not hide my opinions, thoughts and ideas. No, I will not enable these forces by censoring myself in a public venue (the internet). No, I will not be a Fahrenheit 451 person! But if the penalties for doing such make it necessary, then it IS time to "pull the plug" from the monster network or be a victim of "lockdown" - from censorship and self-censorship, from McCarthyism, from freedom-burners. All it takes is to pull the ethernet plug and turn off the wireless adapter and say goodbye to that which was once the internet but is no more. Truly, that is a choice many of us are considering, and it is very sad but real.
Maybe its time to create a clandestine global internet through DXing. Will require participation of "free" countries. Although if none are left, time to steal a nuclear bomb, blow it up, blame USA, then present yourself/your party as saviours from American Terrorists and Fascists and heard the sheep (Book of Bush 7:14).  | |
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