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October 22, 2007
Neutrality as Applied to Life: Some Incomplete Thoughts
Recently I began to wonder if the paradigm of the internet and freedom of access will trickle down into our lives.
We have learned that firewalls are not impenetrable. Further, they can be compromised from within.
We have learned that censorship is simply a blocked avenue, and other avenues can be found.
And we are learning that the value of communities is undermined and diminished when we place universal limits on expression, interaction and sharing.
On the internet, the ideal seems to be network neutrality, an extraordinarily egalitarian philosophy if ever there was one: all information has equal importance, all requests have equal importance, access to all information is equivalent.
I believe that the internet will lead to additional social evolution. Limits to freedom will be less tolerable. Limits to knowledge will be less tolerable. Limits to communication will be less tolerable.
We will see that this whole experience we're having is less about you and me and a lot more about us.
And so it is that I have high hopes that sexuality and its many flowers will be allowed to flourish, that it will be anticipated and accepted that there is variety, and that limits will not be tolerated.
Such are the thoughts of the optimistic pervert.
[+] Posted by Sinner, who was transgressing at the time (October 22, 2007 2:22 PM) by thinking evil. [+]
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