For a moment there, it felt like a turn around. As if fascism, that hate that permeates American discourse, was taking it on the chin.

Understandably the thought of “Controlling the Internet” appears to be a daunting task. In fact; could they do that? Isn’t there a hodgepodge of networks and technologies that is this wonderful melting pot for the whole world to share in? And it’s diversity almost impossible to control because of it’s complexity?

As of now, the simple answer to that is:
YES
They can control all of that.

Boeing-Boeing runs a story about UN World Intellectual Property Organization trying to organize worldwide censorship, ban podcasts and perform some other interesting things sake saving the market positions of current media-monopolies. Here is an excerpt: UN cooking podcast-killing treaty The UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization has reconvened to discuss a treaty that will kill innovative […]

Aw heck. The good ‘ol US of A is flunking…

-eyeseetruth

911 Commission Report Card for the Bush Administration

Article on 911 commission report card

An interesting article run today by Electronic Frontiers Foundation.

On the Disneyfication of our children’s hopes and dreams.

Do you really know how the things that you see, read, expose yourself to during the course of your day effect you?

I was browsing News.com as I usually do every moring, and was struck by the headline SEC, meet the blogosphere This is yet another concrete example of ‘blogging’ becoming a revolutionary, mainstream channel.