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Say No To a Government Internet "Kill Switch"
GMGruman writes "In the name of national security, the feds are considering a law that would let the government turn off the Internet — or at least order broadband providers and ISPs to disable access. InfoWorld blogger Bill Snyder explains why this is a bad idea. Does the US really want to be like China or Iran?"
our liberties and our rights and freedoms are utterly doomed if those who defend those notions are hysterical twits who cry the sky is falling about everything. be prudent and intelligent or don't bother: you only hurt the good cause
This is so true... for all areas I can think of right now there are people that fit exactly that profile and hurt our good cause, for example:
- Enviromentalists (do more harm to environment than they even know, overly complaining about visible oil on the surface killing some birds only forces them to use more toxic dispersants that are more dangerous to the ecosystem than the oil. Ignorant hippies!)
- Privacy advocates (complaining that extra camera's reduce privacy even further while the opposite should be true, a ridiculous amount of camera's can never be watched so i'd worry more about 1 than 1000. Paranoid fucks!)
- Free-speech advocates (always complaining that free speech means 'anything can be said', and then add: well anything except that 'one hurtful thing' they personally don't like. Hypocritical bastards!)
Fuck em all, bunch of misguided motherfuckers. The only way to really change something is indeed like you said: be prudent and intelligent or don't bother.
I apologize for the rather harsh language, but it's been a long day and thinking about self righteous do-gooders that actually fuck shit up even worse pisses me off...