Still waiting for change you can believe in? Well, believe this: the White House just declared an intellectual property treaty a state secret and denied Freedom of Information Act requests asking that it reveal the details of an international treaty that could have huge effects on how information is disseminated online. [More]As some unknown Internet wit observed, "Chains we can believe in."
[Via Ron W]
Wow. That's even scarier than the first two.
ReplyDelete"Chains we can believe in."
ReplyDeletethis is fantastically accurate. it is only our perception, our beliefs, from whence the chains can ever come.
this is true even for literal chains. someone had to dream them up and market them, after all.
So much for transparency.
ReplyDeleteCan we please, PLEASE, turn the crypto-anarchists loose on government networks?
ReplyDeleteIf anyone remember the group Anonymous which went after scientology, I wonder how they will react to the way this will crush the P2P and file sharing networks.
Peoples, do not let your simple minds be clouded by too much information - technical, legal and such. We is the government, and we is here to help you.
ReplyDeleteYes, we can.
Yes, we will.
Yes, we did.
So what are you going to do about it?