So.
Finally, it’s not China or Egypt who are under threat from th great dark silence this time, it’s the good ol’ US of A.
Censorship hits a nasty little nerve with me. I like freedom. I like my freedom and I like other people’s freedom and I think freedom is an all-around good thing, if a little difficult to maintain and survive.
Books have been burned, history has been lost, and art has been destroyed by censorship in the past. No one should ever be able to say what you are permitted to see, to access, to say.
EVER.
The laws in America (SOPA and PIPA) don’t just effect them. They can stretch out and touch other countries.
Not only that but this provides precedent for our own countries to start enacting their own internet censorship laws.
Ignore the commentary about what they will and will not censor. Governments are notorious for abusing their own power, and this censorship would soon spread to any sort of website of internet activity that is deigned “Unfit” for the populace.
And honestly, America?
Your people have been protesting through the past months despite deaths, police brutality, and general mistreatment by officials and authority. They are already very, very angry at you.
If you keep going like this, there will end up being a war, and not just between you and the internet. It will be between you and your people. You and the world.
Don’t. Be. Stupid.
Either that or be an example. Watching one big happy McCountry implode would certainly serve as a warning to Australia.
Please, if you stumble across this blog or read it when I post, share. Share the video, share the message. We live in a world of global connection. We have a global culture.
Forget Anonymous.
We are the pissed off techno-generation. We truly are legion.
They will never, ever be able to silence us.
Nelkitty 