Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 09, 2002 11:33 PM
OK, people, let's look at this seriously.
All these alphabet soup bills and acts are power grabs - by the few and rich and powerful - for the future of technology and the internet. And whether or not we believe they will in the end be successful, there is one thing we should all be clear about:
THIS IS WAR!
There's a war on, and it's for control of the future. Control of the internet. Control of technology. Control of what you see ... what I see ... what we pay for ... how we pay for it ... how we use media we buy ...
When are we going to wake up and decide to use our power for good?
The corporations and organization that are fighting against the power of the average individual, and against the principles and beliefs in which our nations (CAN/US) were founded have to be stopped.
I'm not in favor of breaking the law ... but you know as well as I that the law is broken as often by well-mannered tie-wearing biz/lawyer types as by thugs on the street.
And maybe the solution is a declaration of war: if you declare war on us ... against our rights ... against our technology, then we'll declare war on you, and your technology, and your networks, and your computers, and your databases.
Make no mistake. We used to say an army marches on its stomach. Well, these days a business marches on its data.
Kill the data, you kill the company. Kill the companies that are promoting these illegal, immoral, and unethical bills and acts, and we've won half the battle.
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Agree, but there's another option: WAR
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 09, 2002 11:33 PMAll these alphabet soup bills and acts are power grabs - by the few and rich and powerful - for the future of technology and the internet. And whether or not we believe they will in the end be successful, there is one thing we should all be clear about:
THIS IS WAR!
There's a war on, and it's for control of the future. Control of the internet. Control of technology. Control of what you see ... what I see ... what we pay for ... how we pay for it ... how we use media we buy ...
When are we going to wake up and decide to use our power for good?
The corporations and organization that are fighting against the power of the average individual, and against the principles and beliefs in which our nations (CAN/US) were founded have to be stopped.
I'm not in favor of breaking the law ... but you know as well as I that the law is broken as often by well-mannered tie-wearing biz/lawyer types as by thugs on the street.
And maybe the solution is a declaration of war: if you declare war on us ... against our rights ... against our technology, then we'll declare war on you, and your technology, and your networks, and your computers, and your databases.
Make no mistake. We used to say an army marches on its stomach. Well, these days a business marches on its data.
Kill the data, you kill the company. Kill the companies that are promoting these illegal, immoral, and unethical bills and acts, and we've won half the battle.
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