home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TNA-GOLD 1
/
TNA-GOLD - Volume 1.iso
/
24hours
/
essay_4.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-03-11
|
4KB
|
77 lines
The Internet Revolution
By Scott Kasai
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
As I wrote before about Welcome to 1984, it seems that what we hoped would
never come has come to pass. While I understand the Clinton wished to make
it easier for the American Public to be able to gain access to the
Internet, the cost for it has become too much.
I stand before you and my fellow Netusers, seeing the great injustice
crossing the land. We make our webpages BLACK with blue ribbons to protest
this injustice. This is our revolution against injustice.
I blame not the President for his wish to make America step closer to the
future. I blame people like Congress and people like Presidential Candidate
Dole. Why do you ask?
Mr. Dole, while I believe you are under the assumption of returning the
family values back to the Americans, you must consider that in order to
progress to the future, we must not fall back to the past. The 'moral'
belief system from the 1950s did more to make people shy away from it than
to embrace it. It generated rebels like James Dean that people seem to make
movies about. It generated West Side Story and did very little to undo the
damages created by mobsters.
You believe that we have digressed, and that is true. We have become less
than the ideals set before us. But then again, if forced to fit those
ideals, do you really expect that you will not create more of a problem
than a solution to end the problem at hand?
Let us remember the Cold War... Remember how those living under the
Communist block were deprived of their rights and their wishes due to the
'Moral' belief imposed by the Communist Regime. Noticed how well those
people reacted when they wish not to be persecuted just because they do not
agree with those ideals?
Imagine the Internet that people have strove to create, to build and come
alive, only to be lobotomized by people who believe we cannot judge or
decide what we would like and not like. No longer can we speak of the
democracy we were once proud of, because, in the end, it is our democracy
that cause our downfall.
I can say, that we, the people, cannot be proud of America. The people of
the Internet in general feel that we have not been represented in any way
by the people we have placed in office. Why can I say this? How many of the
people we have voted into the House of Representatives or the Senate have
e-mail address? Not many. Does President Clinton get a chance to read his
own e-mail? Probably not. How often do we even KNOW of them using the
Internet the way the other people use it? Not many.
Yes, we have our little blurb on TV from CNN or Headline News. Even some of
the foreign countries talk about the Telecommunication bill, but not the
other part, the part of the CDA we protest.
The Sanitization of the Internet is the purge of free thought, free speech,
in favor of only one or more religions. These are the Dark Ages for the net
now, where the religions call people who do not fit their standards of
decency as being 'Vile demons and temptresses' that 'tears down the
morality of man.'
I feel that 48 hours of protest is not enough... I believe that we should
protest until the CDA is no longer part of the law, but revised to leave
the power of judgement not in the hands of the few, but to us, the users of
the net.
Until then, we should consider our pages to be in Black, wearing the Blue
Ribbon for Freedom. Because we are not free in 2 days... We will be free
when the denouncement of the CDA is made.
Viva La Revolution.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Created: February 10th, 1996
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prev|Next|Index