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Today, we fight for the Internet.
Jan. 18th, 2012 12:03 amOn this eighteenth day of the month of January in the year of two thousand and eleven After Common Era, we fight for the greatest enabler of free communication the world has ever known.
I would not know many of my greatest friends without it, nor have kept in close contact with others who may have moved away. The internet is an asset and a tool.
Therefore, we cannot allow it to be abused and crippled by those who fear losing thousands of dollars among the billions they make per year, among those-- appropriately, capslocked by many-- NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS donated to buy the votes of our congressmen, many of whom have demonstrated that they have only the faintest grasp of how the internet works. We cannot allow it to be destroyed by these people.
Fandom would be a burning wreckage, the remnants gathering in secret places and hoping against hope that no trolls find us.
It is a clumsy, misguided thing.
We can only hope that it passes not. That the efforts of the little sites and the big names-- Wikipedia, Reddit, the others-- are effective.
What I can tell you is that if it does pass, I will be even less inclined to give my money to those who wrecked the home of some of my greatest joys... for what comparatively is a few coins in their pocket.
I would not know many of my greatest friends without it, nor have kept in close contact with others who may have moved away. The internet is an asset and a tool.
Therefore, we cannot allow it to be abused and crippled by those who fear losing thousands of dollars among the billions they make per year, among those-- appropriately, capslocked by many-- NINETY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS donated to buy the votes of our congressmen, many of whom have demonstrated that they have only the faintest grasp of how the internet works. We cannot allow it to be destroyed by these people.
Fandom would be a burning wreckage, the remnants gathering in secret places and hoping against hope that no trolls find us.
It is a clumsy, misguided thing.
We can only hope that it passes not. That the efforts of the little sites and the big names-- Wikipedia, Reddit, the others-- are effective.
What I can tell you is that if it does pass, I will be even less inclined to give my money to those who wrecked the home of some of my greatest joys... for what comparatively is a few coins in their pocket.
