[abb]

I understand the media of the Internet is a double-edged sword, but I will take the risk of figuring out how to grasp that double edged sword by the blade and using it as I see fit, rather than having someone wield a safe sword handle on my behalf and putting my trust in them.

Well put. The internet - again, imo - represents freedom to a degree greater than any since the dawn of mankind. The free flow of information is the antidote to control.

[rlmorel]

Yes. But I admit, I occasionally think of the words of Winston Churchill:

"...But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science..."

I wonder how long it will inevitably be before a tyrannical government uses the technology to trap an unsuspecting populace. Look at what the Iranian government was said to do with Twitter, using it as somewhat of a Venus Fly Trap to track down and ensnare people who were using it to communicate with each other and the world.

Even still...I will take my chances.