Indeed... This certainly does justify the same level of anger. NSA is hard at work building Skynet in Utah so they can run the whole infrastructure their long term thinking here will require too. Acres of servers they already have are no match for this task.

I hope MSM and others start grumbling hard on this. Anything that leads to that same destination of suppression on an international form of communication like this can only hurt EVERYONE in the long term. What one nation finds offensive, another worships while yet another puts on a bun and calls a Big Mac, for instance.

This whole direction of Nanny-Net is just bad and there IS no upside to get behind. Law Enforcement on the net? Yes.... International Laws exist and more can be added with the consent of the nations. This is more about Policy Enforcement and that has no place in my view.

I know, I have guilt, here is the thing. It seems like a hydra, each time you cut off a head, another one grows in it's place. I am fighting not to have a sense of doom and inevitability.

They saw in Egypt, Iran, Syria, to name a few, just how powerful the internet and social networks can be. They are afraid and they will not stop until they think they have control.

Yeah, they're determined--and I mean determined--to bring the Internet securely under their Fascist umbrella and make it safe--and appropriate--for 5-year-olds. The rest of us might as well decide right now what we're going to use in its place. And we might as well get used to the idea that whatever we use will be thoroughly mined by the NSA. Even if we could effectively fight these regressive laws, that's the thing we have to keep in mind: That it's going to be collected, sifted, collated, and catalogued by the NSA no matter what kind of electronic communication it is.

The laws no longer matter. It's too late. You're being profiled as we speak.

For my part, I've decided to be philosophical about it. Consequently, I only break OFFline laws now

It seems people just do not believe such things will happen. I got laughed at more than a few times trying to tell people about the light bulb ban. Those same people are now like "When did this happen?" or "I never heard anything about this". It seems that most people just do not want to even thing such a thing could happen so they just do not listen.

Originally posted by fixer1967
It seems people just do not believe such things will happen. I got laughed at more than a few times trying to tell people about the light bulb ban. Those same people are now like "When did this happen?" or "I never heard anything about this". It seems that most people just do not want to even thing such a thing could happen so they just do not listen.

I've had that same experience. It's almost like they wake up in a new world every day. "That's funny. This [fill-in-the-blank ugly globalist plot] wasn't happening yesterday. Oh, well...."

Originally posted by Ex_CT2
Yeah, they're determined--and I mean determined--to bring the Internet securely under their Fascist umbrella and make it safe--and appropriate--for 5-year-olds. The rest of us might as well decide right now what we're going to use in its place. And we might as well get used to the idea that whatever we use will be thoroughly mined by the NSA. Even if we could effectively fight these regressive laws, that's the thing we have to keep in mind: That it's going to be collected, sifted, collated, and catalogued by the NSA no matter what kind of electronic communication it is.

The laws no longer matter. It's too late. You're being profiled as we speak.

For my part, I've decided to be philosophical about it. Consequently, I only break OFFline laws now

Carrier pidgeon ... actually can we put together a manual on approved speech ?

Thank you for posting the link to the petition, I went and signed it. It was so rewarding to me to sign the last one when it made a difference. I am hoping it will change things this time, but as I posted earlier, they will not stop.