"They" want OUR internet

[Mega]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13522432
........& so Internet 2 was forced opon the people & the spark that started the revolt was lit.
Mike

[Shakespear]

Re: "They" want OUR internet

They are testing methods as we write.

Polish law enforcement agents have raided the home and shut down the site of a blogger accused of "slander" against the country's president, Bronislaw Komorowski.
Officers from Poland's purportedly counter-terrorist 'internal security agency', the ABW, last week seized a laptop and hard disks from Robert Frycz's home, after his site - antykomor.pl - published photographs and articles mocking the president, and included games in which users could throw virtual objects such as a hammer or excrement at a picture of the politician.
A message posted at the former site's address thanks well-wishers for nearly 1,000 mes

http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/5/24/pol...ident-slander/

[goodrich4bk]

Re: "They" want OUR internet

In the video, Sarkosy claims that government is entitled to regulate the internet now that it is used by 80% of the people. He says that government, in a democracy, represents "the general will". Ergo, government is entitled to regulate anything that involves a majority of the people.

Boy, am I glad we have the Bill of Rights. When you have friends like this, who needs enemies?

[don]

Re: "They" want OUR internet

In the video, Sarkosy claims that government is entitled to regulate the internet now that it is used by 80% of the people. He says that government, in a democracy, represents "the general will". Ergo, government is entitled to regulate anything that involves a majority of the people.

Boy, am I glad we have the Bill of Rights. When you have friends like this, who needs enemies?

President Bush clarified that point.

President Obama regularly proves he was correct.

[lektrode]

Re: "They" want OUR internet

President Bush clarified that point.

President Obama regularly proves he was correct.

kinda funny that the only diff appears to be the reaction from the chattering class
when geedubya said/did it - with say, the patriot act?
THE HOWLING IN OPPOSITION WAS IMMEDIATE, DIRECT AND _strenuous_

when obama sez/does?

the silence is deafening...

[don]

Re: "They" want OUR internet

By Jove, you've discovered the reason for the two party dog and pony show!