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Topic: The Battle for Internet freedom continues.
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Thu 01/31/13 08:21 AM


The fact that you don't understand what it is all about just shows that you did not read the links and show that you don't understand activism.

I will make it simple.

Some idiotic ignorant politicians who don't understand the concept of freedom of speech were convinced they should support a bill that would allow our government to block any website they didn't like under the excuse of copyright infringement.

Most everything is copyright protected. People quote others, post articles, etc. The rules of fair use are vague.

But this bill was about controlling the Internet, not about copyrights. That was just the excuse they were using.

Anyway, because Aaron was the main person who rallied the public to object to this bill and prevented this bill from passing, he became unpopular with certain people.

The alleged crimes he was charged with did not deserve 35 years in prison and that was trumped up by a prosecutor who targeted him to use him as an example. This is wrong.

RIGHT AND WRONG.

Freedom of speech is the issue. This is the first amendment.

Because Aaron was fighting for freedom of speech and freedom of the Internet, he became a target of unfair prosecution for the files he downloaded and made available to everyone. What he did does not warrant prison. Nobody lost anything and he did not hurt anyone!! There were no victims.

That is the rule of law.

Information should be free. Education could be totally free, and it should be.

I thank God for anonymous and for hackers like him who are on the front lines defending the Internet from idiot politicians and tyranny.

The U.N. has declared that Internet access is a right.

We and everyone in the world has a right to Internet access and a free flow of information.


and who is going to pay for the initial discovery of that Information,and the Education?
Government?

Gonna force someone to provide it,just because you have a "Right" to it?
That would be Statism, which actually got us in the mess we're in!



I don't know the details of what the information was or how it was compiled or why the college might have owned the rights to charge money for it so I can't answer your questions on that.

The point in this case is he is innocent until proven guilty.

As for my belief that information (and education) should be free, once the money is recouped for acquiring any information it should be free. Books cost money to produce, but files on a computer don't.




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Thu 01/31/13 08:26 AM
Eventually education will be conducted at home via the Internet. Most information should be free once the cost is recouped for compiling it.

I think a society should have free education and free information and educated people in a society would benefit the society.

Unfortunately this current society is all about greed, profit and money. It is not about making this a better place for everyone.


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Thu 01/31/13 09:10 AM

Eventually education will be conducted at home via the Internet. Most information should be free once the cost is recouped for compiling it.

I think a society should have free education and free information and educated people in a society would benefit the society.

Unfortunately this current society is all about greed, profit and money. It is not about making this a better place for everyone.



truest thing i've heard you say

Metallica said it best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8BRbM52gpc

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