me: sure me: I don't mind a little government me: or a little smack for that matter David: basically... any sustainable organization of people that serve the needs of the people. me: it's just hard to keep the habit down David: yeah me: and society has addictive genes David: yeah David: what would really win the war for us David: would be comcast and at&t siding with anonymous, telling the MPAA and RIAA to fuck off, doing nothing to filter, block, monitor or throttle traffic David: and if they want to charge varying tiers of service in terms of download speeds, more power to 'em (so far as I'm concerned) me: well me: we may have some aces David: and if they explicitly state that they will not comply with any government requests to filter, block, monitor or throttle traffic, all teh better me: think about how nice it would be for, say, Tunisia, to cooperate David: (child porn being an issue to dealt with, which gets into another fundamental issue in society - our prudish refusal to acknowledge our own sexual nature, producing a lot of fucked up fetishes, some of which harm people) me: yeah, child porn is the thin wedge David: 'think of the children' killed socrates. me: that will be used to censor internet further me: of course David: (the actual charge was 'corrupting the youth.' The current revolution is socrates' revenge.) me: at this point me: I feel sorry for the fucking politician who proposes any internet clampdown, however it's phrased David: definitely. David: Egypt did us a HUGE favor.