Freedom Thieves

"We will not reclaim a free culture by individual action alone.  It will also take important reforms of laws.  We have a long way to go before the politicians will listen to these ideas and implement these reforms.  But that also means that we have time to build awareness around the changes we need.” (Lessig, 2005)

Allow me to translate: FREEDOM THIEVES. 

I believe that the world is turning into a very jealous place.  Jealous of each other, that is.  Money is just like that piece of meat all the hyenas drool and kill each other for.  We are drooling for money, and people are doing whatever it takes to get it.  Companies like  Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and Time Warner are in a battle against themselves and each other to consume every penny in whatever way possible, so they keep taking more and more from the public.  

If it wasn’t for net neutrality, people would not have the freedom of using the internet like they do now.  There would be access to Google, YouTube, Facebook...

Hotmail

Adbusters

Myspace

TheStar.com

Yahoo

Skype

...you get the point.

These major media companies are trying to regulate our internet by charging us for simply accessing websites.  I don’t think you are thinking about that properly.  NO INTERNET?  Our Internet Service Providers could potentially become our internet gatekeepers, that doesn’t sound very democratic to me.  

“GOALS.  It’s best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals”

Wrong answer.  Get in their way, fight for what we want, what we really cannot live without.