"The Internet treats censorship as a defect and routes around it." ~ John Gilmore
US Senators call for universal Internet filtering. Outstanding. You know, it always bugs me when the people the least mentally equipped to deal with the ramifications of modern social technology are in charge of controlling said social technology. From the article: "Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Vice Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) both argued that Internet was a dangerous place where parents alone will not be able to protect their children." This is the same Ted Stevens who has been forever immortalized in the following movie:
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." ~ Former Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower
It's utterly sick and ridiculous to think that they can actually censor and regulate "the Internet"... the Internet is no longer an object. It is no longer a single entity. It is no longer something that can be accurately described in terms of physical nouns, any more than love or literature can be described. The Internet is, and it simply will not be censored.
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure way against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is freedom." ~ Alfred Whitney Griswold
I hope this has been fucking enlightening.
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