Hackers are ruining it for the rest of us

Free Speech is our consbreastutional 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 consbreastutional liberties. But the un-grateful kids of today feel like they have to challenge free speech. They right hate mail, rest threats, pirate music and warez, and who knows what else under the theory that it is covered in their consbreastutional 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 persons, 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. Harbutting 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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