Today it just came from now where. An insight in the middle of everything else through the day. It has been here in front of me for a long time. But in a moment I saw it in another light and with other eyes.
If you don't know I can tell you that I right now sitting working on a boat at the North Atlantic. Here we have, as at many other companies, restrictions and an Internet policy. As a result of that we can't surf all type of sites, and the it-man and web sense decides what sites is or is not available to surf on. But the difference here from many other companies is that I don't get home in the evening and can do whatever I want on my own computer. I'm still here, and they still decide.
And now you maybe wonder where I'm trying to get with this.
If companies and government are supposed to decide what we can read, see and do on the Internet. Then the Internet for the whole people is going to be like here onboard or even worse, controlled and slanted. They don't believe there people to be in majority enough to decide what we want to read, see or do. Today I just realized that even if I can do allot from here, and I survive without the rest as long as I'm here, it should be a whole other thing if it was for a whole country or the whole Internet.
I should just feel it so humiliating and as a declaration of incapacity if it shouldn't be our own choice what we want to read, see or do. And not enough with that. They also open up for the next step of brainwashing.
We already now have a media range of newspapers and TV channels that trying to decide what we should think and like. They choose what and how they want to tell us or not. And if we didn't had a chance to make our own choice to search our own information from different sources if we liked to, what should we then believe in, and what would they try to tell us?
I still believe in the right of information, the right of speech, and the right of democracy and I still believe in a majority people that should be adult enough to make their own decision.
We are in a time where the blogosphere is full of fighters for freedom and democracy, people’s right to Internet, freedom of speech and so on. And you can find quite much news articles about the same subjects even if it’s with some other slants maybe. The people living in the time of the Internet are not going to be quiet this time. As more I read as more I get the feeling that it is a war coming. The question is in what dimension and how it gone express. But my believe is that it's on its way. In Sweden the FRA and IPRED laws have got at least some people to react, but then the Swedish government already has taken decisions I never thought should happen.
I can just wish that we never gone give up our believes and hopes.
If you don't know I can tell you that I right now sitting working on a boat at the North Atlantic. Here we have, as at many other companies, restrictions and an Internet policy. As a result of that we can't surf all type of sites, and the it-man and web sense decides what sites is or is not available to surf on. But the difference here from many other companies is that I don't get home in the evening and can do whatever I want on my own computer. I'm still here, and they still decide.
And now you maybe wonder where I'm trying to get with this.
If companies and government are supposed to decide what we can read, see and do on the Internet. Then the Internet for the whole people is going to be like here onboard or even worse, controlled and slanted. They don't believe there people to be in majority enough to decide what we want to read, see or do. Today I just realized that even if I can do allot from here, and I survive without the rest as long as I'm here, it should be a whole other thing if it was for a whole country or the whole Internet.
I should just feel it so humiliating and as a declaration of incapacity if it shouldn't be our own choice what we want to read, see or do. And not enough with that. They also open up for the next step of brainwashing.
We already now have a media range of newspapers and TV channels that trying to decide what we should think and like. They choose what and how they want to tell us or not. And if we didn't had a chance to make our own choice to search our own information from different sources if we liked to, what should we then believe in, and what would they try to tell us?
I still believe in the right of information, the right of speech, and the right of democracy and I still believe in a majority people that should be adult enough to make their own decision.
We are in a time where the blogosphere is full of fighters for freedom and democracy, people’s right to Internet, freedom of speech and so on. And you can find quite much news articles about the same subjects even if it’s with some other slants maybe. The people living in the time of the Internet are not going to be quiet this time. As more I read as more I get the feeling that it is a war coming. The question is in what dimension and how it gone express. But my believe is that it's on its way. In Sweden the FRA and IPRED laws have got at least some people to react, but then the Swedish government already has taken decisions I never thought should happen.
I can just wish that we never gone give up our believes and hopes.
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