The forefathers of the American people would be stricken should they have had to witness the extroadinary rejection from their descendants to a system which embodies every single ideal they fought so willingly to forge into a constitution of common values inherent to the freedom of the human race.
"But it will support kiddie porn!" you cry. Inconsequential! Technology is inherently neutral; human will is what shapes and molds technology to fit its final form. Finally we have a chance to escape the mistake that was the atomic age and enter the information era... and what should defeat us but fear -- fear and self righteous bigotry.
How dare we as a "free thinking" race of sentient beings hold so insanely to the earth -- limiting ourselves to the confines of physical boundries merely because we refuse as a species to share equally. So be it then. But now we have a chance to take the original purpose of a war of revolution and evolve it to fit a new purpose...
America was the inception of what the late 18th century philosphers and dreamers could consider to be the ideal democratic forum. We now find this ceoncept outdated -- originally planned to be an isolationalist country we now find the United States of America the world's only first world nation.
This is unacceptable, and yet we've found a way to expand this freedom to the whole of the world itself, and the few fools who have had freedom from birth are incapable of sharing, for simple fear that the technology will be misused.
Of course it will. Such is the nature of the human race; and in fact, the FreeNet itself will no doubt evolve into a microcosm which mirrors humanity itself -- trying to deny that some of us are good, evil, or indifferent is insufferable arrogance.
The eventual evolution of the human race demands we be able to share information from every mind, thus linking together the most powerful conscious we know to exist beyond what created us.
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The forefathers of the American people would be stricken should they have had to witness the extroadinary rejection from their descendants to a system which embodies every single ideal they fought so willingly to forge into a constitution of common values inherent to the freedom of the human race.
"But it will support kiddie porn!" you cry. Inconsequential! Technology is inherently neutral; human will is what shapes and molds technology to fit its final form. Finally we have a chance to escape the mistake that was the atomic age and enter the information era... and what should defeat us but fear -- fear and self righteous bigotry.
How dare we as a "free thinking" race of sentient beings hold so insanely to the earth -- limiting ourselves to the confines of physical boundries merely because we refuse as a species to share equally. So be it then. But now we have a chance to take the original purpose of a war of revolution and evolve it to fit a new purpose...
America was the inception of what the late 18th century philosphers and dreamers could consider to be the ideal democratic forum. We now find this ceoncept outdated -- originally planned to be an isolationalist country we now find the United States of America the world's only first world nation.
This is unacceptable, and yet we've found a way to expand this freedom to the whole of the world itself, and the few fools who have had freedom from birth are incapable of sharing, for simple fear that the technology will be misused.
Of course it will. Such is the nature of the human race; and in fact, the FreeNet itself will no doubt evolve into a microcosm which mirrors humanity itself -- trying to deny that some of us are good, evil, or indifferent is insufferable arrogance.
The eventual evolution of the human race demands we be able to share information from every mind, thus linking together the most powerful conscious we know to exist beyond what created us.