January 18th

Today was the day the internet went semi-dark.

Sites like Reddit, Wikipedia and thousands of others went dark in protest of the latest attempt at a violent terrorist attack on the internet, the so-called href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1109104784583&s=520&e=001r7id0wO8rkoDyBHR86UStk7pDr7bEJSR5c3EvjjuRq1WLG3oattLw8dxN-zLjez8Usn-EBTZEASmonvsBAmVHQQgP975E8xAoFbnfpKbDPca1-wD13CvZR9j7sGDa5v73yIOei8fM_TSJ93sGnfKAh4GOEfmsYHzN0TqrdPNwd29kOCwO3Loot3PYxYSb5COr-bsRsKOaVAjzl1RuD4pKOHlFgzd1ng8">a way to hack around Wikipedia going dark for 24 hours.

ANARCHY REIGNS ON THE INTERNET

The internet is the most perfect example of an anarchic environment. In some ways it is like America 300 years ago... a new frontier, initially free. The internet is, for the most part, completely uncontrolled and unregulated since it was invented by Al Gore. It has only been in recent years that the grey hairs of congress have even figured out what it is and have begun to try to "protect us" by making it worse.

Many socialists and Keynesians scratch their head at why the internet/tech business is one of the only businesses to still be thriving in the US. Silicon Valley is still teeming with life. And even though the US Government tries to keep out the world's best and brightest, they still find ways around it. In this one case,

SHAMELESS FASCIST PANDERING

And, par for the course, in the US, this legislation only exists thanks to the fascist "lobby" interests. Established companies lobby the government to enact all sorts of legislation to protect their business interests... and that is exactly how SOPA came into being. After envelopes stuffed with cash from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) found their ways into the pockets of people like Leibermann.

Using the old, "I know you are but what am I" tact, the MPAA had the gall to state recently that by going dark to protest the attack on their businesses, href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=8hv8ugeab&et=1109104784583&s=520&e=001r7id0wO8rkrjLEuHJQ6nFPXCKNwoGxrNbnBcWAbqPAkeHNJ5z0BzYRr5bnP6eowCKZAd1Cu7EvZHHyDSt9hh1YXDLyWDk6-WBasVU5RzDMtzmXX7nqIWfw==">http://creativecommons.org/.

Many people ask us, what would happen if someone started a website and copied all our material and claimed it as their own? The answer is simple. Everyone would call them thieves and they would be known as charletans and would lose respect amongst their peers.

It's that simple.

CENSORING AND KILLING THE INTERNET

The real reason the government wants to censor the internet and talk incessantly about the need for an internet kill switch is for the same reason Egypt had an internet kill switch... and China has the "great firewall"... because they know 2012 will be the year of massive protests, riots and turmoil in response to the US being sold out from underneath the people and they know that the people will organize themselves via the internet.

HOLD ON TO THIS FREEDOM

Like the founding of America, we've yet again been given another chance to flourish. These chances only seem to come along very rarely. Before the founding of America, the last time there was an attempt at escape from the control of the state was nearly two thousand years ago with Jesus the anarchist.

And, for thousands of years, many people have been awaiting a return of "the savior". The savior could be the internet. Jesus, in many ways, was the top anarchist of his time, fighting against the depredations of the state for freedom.

Fight against any and all government control of this space. This space doesn't even exist physically. It exists virtually, but it is just as important as any locale in terms of your ability to access information and to make free your mind.

You've been able to access information you never thought even existed thanks to the internet. I know I have. And the governments of the world don't like this. Fight to retain this ability. If we lose this, all is lost.

Sadly, the internet is the last free place on Earth. We have to go virtual to escape government oppression at this point. And if we lose this, there is no hope for humanity. If we retain it, the future will be full of prosperity and peace unlike any we've ever known. If we lose it? We don't even want to think about it.