"Honestly - as much good that's come from the internet aside, I'm tired of the mess our lives have become! We're losing our rights daily as the RIAA/MPAA attempt to find some grand loophole to put the genie back in the bottle, and all on a silver platter handed to them by our weak-minded governmental leaders who have a blatant interest in their pockets being lined over the well being of our Global and local societies."
Let's just forget about the Net and move on, he suggests >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Lets just do it. Unplug the internet and move on with our lives. By_-Jile-_
Look. ISP's, save us all the hassle - disconnect all your core lines and walk away from the internet. While it's the best means mankind has found yet to interconnect the globe, it's also the world's greatest weakness given various leaders and companies that have dictatorial power over legislation will undermine everything our various countries have stood for and, for that matter, the very reason America was even created.
When a government becomes too self-interested and disconnected from the will of the people, we're called to stand up and overthrow them to put in place a new government that represents the will of the people.
Yes, I know those are words by a few Americans back before the internet and before the global society as we know it today existed - but it's a calling to everyone who's ever heard those words. Being American isn't about living in America - it's about standing for freedom and justice! Somewhere, that's been lost on our leaders here and our ideals are no longer represented.
We've been sorely misrepresented and you know what? Our children are changing the world. How? How many kids do you know that chat daily on the net - with people in dozens of different countries - without judging them for looking different or speaking different?
On the net, our kids are learning impartiality and equality among ALL men and women. On the net, the ideal that all women are created equal and that no one should be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character has become a reality. It's hard to do in great moves in the real world, but the net makes those changes happen.
What in the heck am I ranting about? First I say kill the net and then I show why it's more important than any stupid (faked) trip to the moon or mars.
When you look at this little blue speck out in space - we've done a lot of things to be embarrassed about should God's son come today - a lot of mistakes that have pulled us further apart as a global people and this global internet has been our best link into an informed, global society instead of our respective countries being closed off, and the only knowledge we know about other countries being what our governments and our history books tell us.
So go ahead - take away the internet. All in the name of helping society block movie and music shares. We've had a taste of information freedom - without dictatorial lines. Our various governments won't be able to keep up with the changes people make to keep interconnected.
From Undernets to private networks through the internet - people WILL remain connected.
We're not going back to the stone ages just because our governments have no spine. But this really did make me wonder about something. There was a comment about 'Daddy, where you when the internet died' or something to that sentiment. If we're to really go through and be taken literally, effectively banning the internet and all it's effective functions, thereby killing companies being able to use ATM through the internet and ebusiness as a whole, then as dependant as people and businesses have become on the use of the internet, we'd see an instant flush down the toilet of our global economy.
But the internet isn't that important, right? It's not 'that' big a deal, right? It's just some stupid lawsuit about music and movies, right?
Something to realize: it's NEVER 'just' about one thing and to say the 'internet' really talks about thousands of things - millions of things. But don't worry. Go back to your normal happy life and forget all about this nasty stuff going on. Everything will be juuust fine without you worrying about it. Right?
Get off your butt and DO something. Contact your Congressperson. Contact your governor. Contact the puppet president.
Because if crap like this is permitted to get through - and you've done nothing - it's YOUR fault, just as much as the morons writing the lawsuits and it's on YOUR head.
Just my 10 cents.
"It won't work," says another reader. "Even if there is no internet, the government is still gonna be disconnected. Remember the 1950s and McCarthyism?"
However, "That's exactly what WORLD WIDE response should be," says someone else. "Let's create a new root registry, lock out the Americans and let them try to profit from their walled garden ecommerce intranet. Controlling the Web for profit is what they're trying to do anyways, let's help them along :-)"
