The internet represents the greatest tool for free speech ever invented. There are many efforts underway to limit the freedom that the internet offers and inevitably child porn is the reason given. Now, I hate child porn as much as anyone, and would even help flay the skin off of anyone caught producing child porn, but, I cannot accept giving up our freedoms under the guise of stopping child porn. As for the other topics mentioned, suicide, warez, etc, as soon as we allow the right to limit access to information that is considered objectionable, we have given up the right to free speech.
Can you people not see how precious the freedoms we enjoy are?
If something as simple as a new way to distribute music can cause this much turmoil, how is civilization ever going to survive the changes coming as the internet and other technologies completely rewrite the rules of society.
Even though I don't agree that the earth is doomed, I do believe that it is very important that we start using the resources that are available in space. That includes migrating people into space. I saw an estimate one time that by utilizing the space based resources that are availabe, the solar system could support a population a trillion times greater then what now exists on earth.
This would also keep us in compliance with both of the mandates that God gave us at the creation of life, i.e.
1. Go forth
2. And multiply
I do not believe those commands meant to go forth until it got difficult or to multiply until it got to crowded. It is the nature of life to expand and multiply. The movement away from earth out into space is a natural progression.
I also do not believe that it is an accident that, after millenia of living as hunter/gatherers we, developed the ability to move out into space right at the moment in history that it became crucial for the survival of the species.
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The internet represents the greatest tool for free speech ever invented. There are many efforts underway to limit the freedom that the internet offers and inevitably child porn is the reason given. Now, I hate child porn as much as anyone, and would even help flay the skin off of anyone caught producing child porn, but, I cannot accept giving up our freedoms under the guise of stopping child porn. As for the other topics mentioned, suicide, warez, etc, as soon as we allow the right to limit access to information that is considered objectionable, we have given up the right to free speech.
Can you people not see how precious the freedoms we enjoy are?
If something as simple as a new way to distribute music can cause this much turmoil, how is civilization ever going to survive the changes coming as the internet and other technologies completely rewrite the rules of society.
Even though I don't agree that the earth is doomed, I do believe that it is very important that we start using the resources that are available in space. That includes migrating people into space. I saw an estimate one time that by utilizing the space based resources that are availabe, the solar system could support a population a trillion times greater then what now exists on earth.
This would also keep us in compliance with both of the mandates that God gave us at the creation of life, i.e.
1. Go forth
2. And multiply
I do not believe those commands meant to go forth until it got difficult or to multiply until it got to crowded. It is the nature of life to expand and multiply. The movement away from earth out into space is a natural progression.
I also do not believe that it is an accident that, after millenia of living as hunter/gatherers we, developed the ability to move out into space right at the moment in history that it became crucial for the survival of the species.