Internet Censorship

"The agreement by the Congress to extend an enhanced Patriot Act for another four years will permit the political enforcers of the Bush administration, who use law enforcement as their proxies, to further clamp censorship controls on the web."

"The warning signs for the crackdown on the web have been with us for over a decade. The Clipper chip controversy of the 90s, John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) system pushed in the aftermath of 9-11, backroom deals between the Federal government and the Internet service industry, and the Patriot Act have ushered in a new era of Internet censorship, something just half a decade ago computer programmers averred was impossible given the nature of the web. They were wrong, dead wrong."

Yeah, it was just a matter of time. What was once supposed to be a freewheeling area of information exchange, is to be used as a political tool, to keep us all ignorant of the things we shouldn't know about. When we can't access information that runs counter to whatever political ideology allows, here in American, will you still be deluded in believing this is a free country?

No matter how bad things appear to be getting, we still have options. Let your legislators know of your dissatisfaction with this constant errosion of what liberties we have left, and demand that these assaults cease, or they'll get voted out.

But wait......I forgot about those damned Diebold machines. Well they sure have things covered, haven't they?