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     My dreams for the future of the internet begin with a quote that
     i have memorized and repeated in my head since first i read it.
     It appeared in the Scientific American sometime during my
     freshman year.

          Computer networking offers the soundest basis for world
        peace that has yet been presented. Peace must be created on
            the bulwark of understanding. International computer
          networks will knit together the peoples of the world in
        bonds of mutual respect; its possibilities are vast, indeed.

     Having grown from a child of uncommon awareness to a sensitive,
     young woman who witnessed the death throes of the Cold War
     regime, these words fill me with passion and suspense of an
     intensity which i cannot describe.

     As I watched our government in its ignorance make of the internet
     the most singularly censored medium in existence, I wondered what
     would happen to the dreams of myself and certainly the author who
     originally penned the above quote. no one is talking about the
     almost certain implications that the attachment of such
     destructive measures (here, i am talking about the CDA) will have
     upon our dealings with the rest of the world. This is not the act
     of a democratic nation. This is most certainly the act of an
     election year congress feeling the heat of an
     ever-swinging-more-right-pendulum.

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     My home page went black along with the pages of countless others,
     8feb1996

     BLACK, the color of death, of loss, the color of void, of pain...

     The death of a dream.                                     [Image]
     The loss of an ideal.
     A decision made, void of thinking men.
     The pain of a wound so deep, it threatens to bleed away free
     expression and exchange of ideas - the lifeblood of the internet.
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     No, this is not the act of a democratic (dare to dream, work for
     the ideal, respect the thinking man, hold our rights and ideas
     sacred) nation. What is this country coming to, then?

                          [24Hours of Democracy]
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