Conn-Del-NY-Penn-RI Primaries today

If it's gonna happen though; it has to happen in 2012. CISPA or whatever comes after that is going to shut down access to non-mainstream sites sooner or later, and the election cycle of 2012 is very likely to be the last chance we get to fight it while an issue exists that is big enough for the whole country to get upset about.

You don't think a large percentage of the country would unite against the media over some 2013 'Trayvon the second' scandal, do you? It has to be over something that every american gives a fuck about. And in 2016 (Next Potus election) we'll very likely have a SOPA-clone in place. No more truths on the interwebs.
 


lukep said:
If it's gonna happen though; it has to happen in 2012. CISPA or whatever comes after that is going to shut down access to non-mainstream sites sooner or later, and the election cycle of 2012 is very likely to be the last chance we get to fight it while an issue exists that is big enough for the whole country to get upset about.
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I guarantee that if CISPA passed, the government would deeply regret it. Not because of a violent uprising, but because of the innovation many of us are already working on just in case government ever tried to censor or shut down the internet. The control they have today and power to monitor our communications, would be lost completely and permanently.
 
lukep said:
Try convincing them of that... BEFORE they pass it...
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I don't think it matters. If they pass it, and it drives everybody to a shadow network, that works out better in the long run.

They have a valuable tool right now where they can monitor our email conversations, data mine social networks to build their enemies lists, etc.. if they want to gut their golden goose, let their shortsightedness set them back a few decades.
 
I know this sounds chicken little of me, but I gotta say it anyway: If they pass it and this shadow network comes to pass, our evolution as a species will start to diverge...

We'll basically start evolving into the Morlocks and the Eoli.
 
Napolean said:
I don't think it matters. If they pass it, and it drives everybody to a shadow network, that works out better in the long run.

They have a valuable tool right now where they can monitor our email conversations, data mine social networks to build their enemies lists, etc.. if they want to gut their golden goose, let their shortsightedness set them back a few decades.
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This is kind of what i was thinking too. Much like how the crackdown on torrents has pushed most of to private trackers, we'll still have social sites, they'll just be more numerous and private. That and .onion style anonymity will become more prevalent.
 
music4mic said:
This is kind of what i was thinking too. Much like how the crackdown on torrents has pushed most of to private trackers, we'll still have social sites, they'll just be more numerous and private. That and .onion style anonymity will become more prevalent.
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Exactly.

I remember back in the 90's when people started getting tired of America Online's knee jerk TOS policies that many started flocking to IRC in droves. This really isn't that much different. Back then, America Online was THE internet to most people, anything done outside their client seemed disconnected from the world, dial-up access was like walking without a head.
 
Multispectum/frequency peer to peer networking is the next wave. It'll be essentially unstoppable.
 
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