Sunday, August 03, 2008

Free Speech and the Internet

Well, I wrote recently on here about Climate Change, and urged you to join the "we" campaign. Well, I have another challenge for you, and that is to fight internet censorship. I also have an article for you to read on it. I have a pdf of the printable version available here:
http://www.geek-man.net/cbsnews.08.03.08.pdf
The internet is unique and useful because the flow of information is free. Pinpointing users of certain applications is discriminatory, and the fact that the service *could* be used for illegal means does not mean that those people should have their connection speed throttled, or their traffic delayed. If people pay to use their service, that service should be provided regardless. There are many free software initiatives that rely on bittorrent to ease the financial overhead of providing large downloads by allowing users to help out. If you would like to learn more about the eff, visit them here:
http://www.eff.org/

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