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CoreyWhite
Free Speech is our constitutional right! But between the founding of
the US and the 1990s, no one had free speech, or freedom of the press.
It was nearly impossible to go to kinkos and print off flyers or
leaflets to spread all over the town. You couldn't write anyone you
knew an e-mail, or make a website to draw attention to important
issues. No one knew how to write the president a letter, and most of
the time people didn't know if they were voting for republicans or
democrats because they didn't tell you on the ballot.
If you wanted to send people letters in bulk to get your message out,
you had to apply for a permit with the post office. So only huge
corporations were able to do it. If you wanted to put a flyer up on a
local bulletin board, you might be arrested for graffiti. And god
forbid you start calling people up on the phone who you didn't know.
Today all of this has changed, and we can spread any message we want to
world wide, without anyone coming to our door and intimidating us out
of our constitutional liberties. But the un-grateful kids of today
feel like they have to challenge free speech. They right hate mail,
death threats, pirate music and warez, and who knows what else under
the theory that it is covered in their constitutional rights.
But because of people like you, who I suspect are taking advantage of
this new outlet of information. The people who have never had voices
before, are being censored when they want to speak out about the
government or the world at large.
The kids today look up to terrorists, and don't realize that we could
all connect online and change the world with one single voice. I post
to usenet, and because of it get spam in my mail box every day. But
I'm an outcast from the social order in America, so sending me spam is
accomplishing very little. Harassing important people makes a little
more since, if all you are trying to do is intimidate Americans. But
they get very little spam because you don't even know their e-mail
addresses. The whole thing is ridiculous.
At least we have the open source movement now!
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the US and the 1990s, no one had free speech, or freedom of the press.
It was nearly impossible to go to kinkos and print off flyers or
leaflets to spread all over the town. You couldn't write anyone you
knew an e-mail, or make a website to draw attention to important
issues. No one knew how to write the president a letter, and most of
the time people didn't know if they were voting for republicans or
democrats because they didn't tell you on the ballot.
If you wanted to send people letters in bulk to get your message out,
you had to apply for a permit with the post office. So only huge
corporations were able to do it. If you wanted to put a flyer up on a
local bulletin board, you might be arrested for graffiti. And god
forbid you start calling people up on the phone who you didn't know.
Today all of this has changed, and we can spread any message we want to
world wide, without anyone coming to our door and intimidating us out
of our constitutional liberties. But the un-grateful kids of today
feel like they have to challenge free speech. They right hate mail,
death threats, pirate music and warez, and who knows what else under
the theory that it is covered in their constitutional rights.
But because of people like you, who I suspect are taking advantage of
this new outlet of information. The people who have never had voices
before, are being censored when they want to speak out about the
government or the world at large.
The kids today look up to terrorists, and don't realize that we could
all connect online and change the world with one single voice. I post
to usenet, and because of it get spam in my mail box every day. But
I'm an outcast from the social order in America, so sending me spam is
accomplishing very little. Harassing important people makes a little
more since, if all you are trying to do is intimidate Americans. But
they get very little spam because you don't even know their e-mail
addresses. The whole thing is ridiculous.
At least we have the open source movement now!
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