This will have a some effect in a sweeping manner. Islamic nations or countries that restrict access will now deal with the internet in full (wonder if free republic will be getting a new influx of visitors?), but also terrorists will use this to help coordinate attacks better, and perverts will use this to by pass child porn laws and continue with the smut peddling, only it will increase in nations like china and the middle east (wonder how a muslim terrorist will react to seeing doctored nakkad pics of hillary clinton?). It'll have its positives and its negatives, where this eventually winds up, we''ll have to see.
Where will it lead?
The genie has never been put back in the bottle. Communist Russia fell to the genie. Due mostly to the use of fax machines and satellite television. Earthlings now live at the "mercy"/benefit of the genie/Internet.
Seldom does a person that already knows the meaning of a word look it up in the dictionary. But it does happened and I just did it with the word "genie". Interesting what I found.
genie: A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit the earth and influence mankind by appearing in the form of humans or animals.
Today the genie is implied to be Western capitalists and their magnificent creations from low-lying Hover dam and oceanic ships transporting grains, oil and silicon computer chips, to human soaring intelligence scraping the sky. The World Trade Center twin towers are a prime example and symbolic proof of soaring human intelligence abiding human nature to increase the well-being of conscious humans.
This Internet is a function of conscious-human nature -- to increase the well being of humans. It should be obvious that Islamic fundamentalists are intent on harming humans an Western capitalism.
There are other parasites that feign to increase human well-being but they get away with it by being politically correct.
The government is the all time champion of cooking the books and it has the gall to point fingers at the whole business community because of a few bad apples. The entire business community and employees that support it should stand tall against not just Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, but also stand tall against a government feigning to protect the little guy from organizations that cook their books.
If there was ever a prime example of the fox guarding the hen house it is the government claiming to protect the little guy from organizations that cook their books. President Bush will have to militarily smash down terrorism. For that is his job. It's not the President's, congress or' the government's job to manipulate the economy.
The business community with their employees will have to stand tall against the PC-status-quo fox -- self-proclaimed authorities claiming/feigning they'll use the government to protect the little guy and a complicit media and academia that supports them; for they are all the fox -- to regain their rightful place as the champions of honest business that has always increased the well-being of people.
The government, having already manipulated the economy to almost no-end, President Bush can play the unbeatable five-ace hand of replacing the initiation-of-force IRS and graduated income tax with a don't-pay-the-tax-if-you-don't-want-to consumption tax. For example, implement the proposed national retail sales tax (NRST). Not only would that win votes for Bush and republicans in congress it would boom the economy while fighting off a looming economic double-dip inflation/recession headed for depression.
Yes, the genie is out of the bottle. Where will it lead?
War of Two Worlds
Value Creators versus Value Destroyers
Politics is not the solution. It's the problem!
The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.
Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.
Aside from that, keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today.
Underwriters Laboratory is a private sector business that has to compete in a capitalist market. Underwriters laboratory is a good example of success where government fails.
Any government agency that is a value to the people and society -- which there are but a few -- could better serve the people by being in the private sector where competition demands maximum performance.
Wake up! They are the parasites. We are the host. We don't need them. They need us.