[atlarge-discuss] "Kiss Your Internet Good-bye" or Conspiracy theory?

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8  Kiss Your Internet Good-bye.
http://www.intelinet.org/kiss_internet.html
By Servando González

In a short, but forceful article, Peter Sparacino pointed out that
constitutional tools are no longer valid in our losing battle against a
government out of control, rapidly becoming a totalitarian dictatorship.
According to Sparacino, neither the ballot box, nor the jury box can be
used to stop its advances -- not even the cartridge box. The only thing
left to fight back, he states, is freedom of the press.

But, as media critic A.J. Liebling rightly expressed, freedom of the
press
is guaranteed only to those who own one. Though in theory the
opportunity
to own his own printing press was open to every American citizen, in
practice just a few, and lately only the very rich and powerful, were
able
to own one. ...The Internet has become a growing obstacle to their
plans.
Therefore, what will they do? Very simple: They will destroy it. The
only
solution to solve the Internet's growing challenge to the media
monopoly is
to shut it down and throw the key away. How it will happen? One of these
days, out of the blue, the Internet will be used for launching a
devastating terrorist attack on the United States. Somehow, this
cyberattack will cost the lives of scores of American citizens. In
order to
avoid more damage, the government, putting to good use the recently
approved anti-terrorist laws, will shut the Internet down and ban the
use
of the Internet as we know it.

But most government agencies rely heavily on the Internet. How can they
function without it? No problem. The replacement already exists; it is
called Internet 2, reportedly a consortium being led by more than 200
universities working in partnership with industry and government to
develop
and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating
the
creation of tomorrow's Internet. But, contrary to the deceptive
techno-babbling rhetoric, Internet 2 is nothing more than a controlled
Internet, similar to the one currently in place in totalitarian
countries
like China and Cuba. ...The unavoidable fact is that the Internet is
incompatible with a totalitarian system of government. Therefore,
either we
are a bunch of delusionary paranoids, and what we see happening in this
country is only a figment of our feverished imagination, and,
consequently,
the Internet will not be banned, or we are right, and it will disappear.
Actually, the disappearance of the current free Internet will serve as a
litmus test that will accurately mark our final loss of freedom.
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Montreal, QC           <espresso@e-scape.net>
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