Posted on 01/04/2011 5:05:00 PM PST by Clint Williams
Shareable writes
"Douglas Rushkoff: 'The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. For once the fate of a network its fairness, its rule set, its capacity for social or economic reformation is in the hands of policymakers and the corporations funding them that network loses its power to effect change. The mere fact that lawmakers and lobbyists now control the future of the net should be enough to turn us elsewhere.' And he goes on to suggest citizens fork the Internet & makes a call for ideas how to do that."
Once the fate of the Internet is in the hands of government the tyranny is complete.
Rushkoff thinks government take over/control of the net is “corporate” control !?
And there are already many internets. Some connected, some not. And the connections can and do change minute by minute.
So the whole premise of this is bogus.
/johnny
There have been a few times I’ve wanted to fork the internet.
I don´t think my ISP wants to go out of business.
Fidonet would work, but a lot of us don't have landlines anymore.
OTOH, it's actually extremely easy to route around a lot of net censorship and control because the net is fundamentally not really censor friendly if you have any technical abilities at all.
Fork is a verb now ? Who knew ?
Fork is a verb now ? Who knew ?
The technical part is not the problem.
The problem is that circumventing the net censorship would be a crime in itself, and the programming tools would be defined as intent to circumvent the government's net safety precautions.
It has been in UNIX for about 40 years!
Ummm. Any open source developer since the second day of open source.
Also see 'n: fork bomb'. Unrelated to the vt: to fork
/johnny
/johnny
The best part of forking? I get to choose which shell I have to argue with.
Now, before I ask how to set an environment variable in this shell, how do I figure out which shell it is?
/johnny
“Fork is a verb now ? Who knew ?”
Think pitch forks and torches as in the last scene of Frankenstien
Well, since I'm already a potential felon for having the audacity to want to watch DVDs on my Linux desktop (this is not a joke), having that other stuff isn't really going to add enough to it to make a difference, will it?
Stupid laws generate contempt for the rest of the law.
That may be, but it enables the authorities to selectively enforce laws.
If they decide they want to get you, it's just a matter of finding a law that you broke.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." -- Ayn Rand, 'Atlas Shrugged'
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