Of course Internet should, by all means, be kept free. Any minimum effort to put hurdles by crooks in top level positions should be attacked and destroyed immediately. Every individual with a healthy mind and a minimum of culture and vision will join forces in favor of freedom in and outside Internet. I think we also have a lot healthy people in top level positions. the balance of power is in our favor. But we should keep alert.

Forget the ‘Arab Spring’, the time has come for the ‘Western Awakening’. How much longer are we going to sit around, wringing our hands and whining abut the way our freedoms are being eroded? Get up, wake up, and start taking DIRECT ACTION. In the defence of freedom from tyranny, cleptocracies, ANYTHING is permissable. After all, they are quite happy to use lethal force against us!

ACTA ,drop dead….!!!

The best way to deal with this sort of privacy intrustion is to not visit the countries whose governments signed the treaty. Tourism keeps them going. No tourism dollars = no power.

The amazing thing about web and government is governments had no idea of the impact and years later countries are free because of the internet connecting so many people with the TRUTH.

Sadly, this kind of thing is inevitable. Intellectual Property lawyers, all of whom are “criminal attorneys” in the most derogatory sense of the title, get paid big money by Big Content to lie, lie, and lie to them, spinning fairly tale stories about destroying the public Internet in order to bring back the “economics of scarcity” and “high economic entry barriers” for audio and video content.

Then Big Content pays lobbyists to lie, lie, and lie some more to legislators, while dispensing handsome bribes.

By the time the public knows what is going on and rises by the millions to push back, the whole job is already done: All the checks have been cashed, and three classes of parasite – IP lawyers, Lobbists, and Politicians – have fed off their bloated host, Big Content. As I said, this is inevitable – so, bring it on.

At the end of the day, we will either preserve the Internet in more or less its present condition, or add a very large Darknet component that facilitates ALL manner of free speech, copyright infringement, and even real criminal behavior. Since this latter option is probably not an acceptable outcome, even for politicians, I am betting on the Internet to remain mostly as it is today. But I am not betting much, because politicians do keep proving to us how ignorant and easily led they are…