Sometimes people just make me mad. Often nowadays, it has been governments making me mad for listening more to corporations than their people they’ve been elected to lead. Sure, corporations are people too. No they are not. They represent an urge to make their shareholders a huge pile of money while chugging parts of the cake themselves. Now now, I’m generalizing, I know, but we all know that people can and will be bought for the right price. For my thoughts, I need some quotes which is gotten from Douglas Adams, the writer of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but twisted to fit my purposes: 1. The Internet… is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely, mindbogglingly big it is… 2. In the beginning, the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move. 3. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. With these three quotes, I will show you how government (along with sophisticated media lawyers) is going the wrong way. 1. The Internet is not a possesion, it is a human right. What propsals, like the SOPA, will do is to limit peoples rights and harm innocent while maybe catching some crooks inbetween. Speculation leads to paranoia which leads to extreme measures. 2. The Internet was a creation of some people that thought “Hey… People can talk to each others. Why couldn’t computers talk to each others?!”. This, however, was kind of cool, thought the US Military that got in on it and took control of some of the technology for “further investigation” once it was operational. 3. The Internet nowadays is all over the place. It’s even inside you. We can’t stop this and we do not intend to do it. This is why dark secrets and bad things see the light of discovery so, so very fast and un-protected. For a time, people who traverse the darker sides of the Internet, have known where to go to look for information that does not surface to the people-layer of facebook and job e-mails. Until now. Now, people who are willing to fight for YOUR rights to your daily communication and freedom of speech is spewing this information out to you via facebook, twitter, youtube, local newspapers, TV etc. etc. I hear you, you don’t want to be bothered while reading your facebook during work… You’re a good citizen, it doesn’t affect you. Yet. Did you remember that thing you wrote about that company/government/public person? No? The Internet knows. And soon, the Government as well. Don’t waste this chance of free and open information flow. Indulge, read, learn what is happening in the world behind those, previously, locked doors. Just get an opinion. We love you and we don’t forget. Persist. // The Joker