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Where'd I leave my teeth... (none / 0)
Yeah...some of us old farts have already caught on to this Internets tubes thingy...good luck rounding up the ones not already "plugged in." Encouragement is good, though. Chocolate works well, too (not the kind with nuts!).

I wasn't going to respond, but after reading

"Since the Internet is a realm that is very difficult, if next to impossible, to bring under submission, even by corporate powers"

I felt it incumbent to point out that it hasn't really been tried yet. Wait until it gets a real stress test before thinking it can't be done. Who's in charge of deciding who receives which satellite feed or fiber optic data? May not be able to kill this beast, but I have no doubt that it could be severely wounded if the need arose - and that it would be blamed on Hackers, who would be "The Usual Suspects."

And now that there are no more analog TV signals, where will people turn if the satellites go dark? The radio? A lot of them are satellite, one way or another, too. Newspapers? Hope they kept their old typewriters in storage.

All I'm saying is make sure to keep a few hand powered ditto machines (look it up, youngster!) close at hand when the time comes that information needs to get out the old fashioned way.

May never happen...but I still carry an umbrella when it looks like rain...

(You wrote a good piece, I'm not trying to discount you in any way. Just having a little "age" fun while making the point that one shouldn't put too much faith in anything. Being prepared never hurts.)

by MedfordTim on 09/16/2009 03:29:12 PM EST

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You're right (none / 0)
"Since the Internet is a realm that is very difficult, if next to impossible, to bring under submission, even by corporate powers"
try telling this to Chinese people.
There are "good" arguments for the state to start censuring the internet. In Germany they used child-pornography and in America they can use the war on terror at any time they want.

The argument is simple. Jihadist propaganda on the internet is threatening America. We have to defend America. We have to block certain pages.
After the Patriot Act you can't tell me that's impossible.
When they start with terror they continue nwith child porn and then they go to communism.
Welcome to a brave new world order.

PS: I hope I haven't given ideas to theBoboformerlyknownasKen that he gives to his leaders.

"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."

by opposition on 09/17/2009 04:40:51 AM EST

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Amen(though I understand this is a secular site) (none / 0)
There is going to be a huge attempt to regulate and control the internet. There are many in our government who would like to follow China's example on that. They may not control content, but they will try to price people like Cenk off the internet.

by mmosespt on 09/17/2009 07:53:59 AM EST

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Corporatists vs. Capitalists (Now with Fun AOL Poll) | 36 comments (36 topical, 0 hidden)