Re: Anonymous cancels threat

Posted by D on November 3, 2011, 10:55 am, in reply to "Re: Anonymous cancels threat"
Message modified by board administrator November 3, 2011, 10:57 am

Hi Don, There is a reason for Stratfor requiring a subscription, they need to make money from their work. It is not legal nor ethical to copy paste content, one may quote parts by fair use or link to the website. The Cartels would be hard pressed to scan blogs looking for what you call dissent. Dissent is rampant, just Google something like "Anonymous send a warning to drug cartel" and you will get over 2 million hits. The Cartels are looking for people reporting, Blogging on their actions, like where deals are going down, or where lookouts are posted. It was that type of activity that got the social media posters (Blogger's) killed. I do find this all very interesting, mostly from a stand point of how big a role the Internet is playing in politics, learning, communication on a global level. Big changes are happening due to communication and you can rest assure that governments all over the world are using every trick in the book to limit the Internet as much as possible. If the Internet were to become an effective method of fighting a specific group other than governments, like a corporation, or a cartel then it would certainly be a big plus for those who are trying to keep the Internet free and Open. Imagine if thousands of persons started blogging every scrap of information about a specific group to the Internet..... it would be and is unstoppable. I could go on and on about what attempts are being made to try and control the Internet but that is not really relevant to this discussion. So I will sum up my feelings by saying if it were to come down to a choice between copyright and freedom of speech I would go for freedom of speech, which has to be protected by the people of the world as much or more than the boarders of a country. If I were outside of time with the ability to choose a time period to be born I would choose somewhere right around 1950 to 1960. The changes we have seen in our lives and the changes we continue to see are matched by no other point in history, and its all just a click away.

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