Sunday, May 14, 2006:

Sav3 teh interwebs!!!11

Please act immediately to save the Internet. The internet, as it has been created since it's development, has become a place which goes beyond the borders of any one person, state, or country. It is essence a whole new world, one which is free of constraints and limited only by imagination. In that lies the beauty of the internet. The freedom is promises people. To filter and control the content of the internet would put this country in a very similar position as to that of China. However, American would not simply stand by as it happened. The most likely outcome of the would affair would be the abandonment of the internet, destroying it, along with the origional beauty it promised.

More that that, the internet was created as a means to gather and complie information, and to this point in time has fuffiled, and even gone beyond, that ideal. Granted, there are numerous sites dedicated to pornography and racial hate groups and even promoters of illegal acts. But, the law breakers are arrested for their doings in the real world, hate groups are attacked by the will of the majority of the people, and considering the amount of content on the internet, viewing pornography is done by choice, and the repurcussions of that are limited to the viwer themselves, leaving others to thier own doings.
Further on the content available to the well intented patrons of the internet, the possibilities are virtually infinate. The comming together of people from a worldwide scene has led to a realization of infinate inteligence. The only way to not find something on the internet is to purposely look for something which you know does not exist. Even at that, however, you will still be supprised by how many of those queries will still return content. And in the event that it doesn't, as a person with a computer, it is possible to put content out there yourself, thus further elminating the holes in the internet, and bringing it ever closer to being a complete compendium of all known human knowledge.

Also, the internet is becoming a new way for a person to support themselves. While certain sites like Amazon and E-bay are held as top purchasing sites on the internet, that is not limiting others, such as my own family and neighbors, from setting up their own shops and promoting their businesses.

Much on the same vein, the internet allows for everyone to have a place for self expression. As an artist , this is a very importaint issue to me, as I rely on the internet to serve as a gallery so others can view my work. This same feeling also to applies to writers and musicians and people who are experimenting with the new possibilities found in digital medias. Simply put, I do not want to be deemed "unsuitable" or "unessissairy" and replaced by something else which is, simply, not me.

So I ask you to vote for enforceable network neutrality, not simply because I don't want to be filtered, because it would destroy the foundation of the internet as a free space where all are equal and the will of the people truly does rule, or even because it could ruin capitalistic ventures and there by people who can not find work elsewhere, but also because I belive that control of the internet would not work. The thechnologicaly elightened among us would simply do what they always have done, and invent new ways of getting this done, even if it involved returning to a older form of the internet where private networks connected directly to each other, where the controling companies could not touch them. This is a truth in the nature of the "techies" who invented the internet and keep it running strong.

The internet does not belong to companies, it belongs to the people, and everyone who continues to create it and expand it. Please express these feelings to the rest of the nation.

(This is the only time I'm going to mention this. I feel strongly about it, but I'm lazy and personally hate a lot of the people who are whiny liberal bastards who are always talking about taking action, even if they do take action. Good for them, they should keep at it, just as long as they know that if they don't get off my lawn I'm going to break their kneecaps with my crowbar. I have other things to deal with, and I'm looking out for numero uno.)

F*R*A*G:
Give the drummer some! Cauz dadrummaainhadnuninawahhhhh...

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