{"id":1195,"date":"2014-07-14T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackspherelabs.com\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2014-07-14T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:14:47","slug":"the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/14\/the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n

A story….<\/p>\n

I would not be possible. This would not be possible. People have been using the Internet for so long we forget what it really is. Does anyone really remember what it was like before the Internet? How slow information used to move? How limited access to information was? Who controlled the flow of knowledge globally?<\/p>\n

Why do you think any of us are like we are today? When I was a child no Internet existed and instead I had nothing but books. I love books.<\/p>\n

My first computer was the key to the door that opened everything else in my life. The Internet was just the path. Networking protocol and information. I had more knowledge at my fingertips then at any public library, anywhere. I had more knowledge then any other human in any other previous generation. I did not need to worry about censorship or belief. It was the one place, the only place, that one could be free and not get punished for it.<\/p>\n

I could learn anything and everything…and I did. I still do.<\/p>\n

We have more information at our fingertips then any other generation ever and considering the growth of knowledge and data every second, one could say the same in that manner. Every second our combined knowledge grows because of the Internet.<\/p>\n

There have been and still are many enemies to that freedom. The more I read about them the more angry I get. The more I participate in what people think the Internet is the more I know they have no idea what it represents and what it has given us and continues to give us.<\/p>\n

Unlimited, unconstrained, access to information and people. I still can not understand why people and organizations like you want to take this away? You should be ashamed. If you were to head to the streets and start burning down libraries and setting up theaters there would be riots. You are taking advantage of peoples lack of understanding of technology and people like me know it.<\/p>\n

It could be that the Internet has leveled the playing field in so may ways that someone or something somewhere wants to stop this. It could be possibly that they are losing control of ancient business models, outdated information control methods, and populace development influence. It could be that they want to crush that freedom and bring the world back to a place where they control it.<\/p>\n

I for one will not stand for this and I think I know plenty of people who think the same way. Especially considering that they too have similar stories. That they too realize how important this information and how fast it moves between people and systems is.<\/p>\n

Politically, when the Internet was young I used to hope that the US government would make constructive simple laws the same way I thought freedom in this country is. Laws regarding the Internet have turned out to be nothing but a disaster. Restriction, after restriction, after restriction. Unenforceable restrictions even. Where are the laws protecting freedom on the Internet?<\/p>\n

The Internet is a freedom that should be protected. It is an essential tool that has become the pen and paper of the modern generation and if you should choose to infringe on that right or limit that right you are an enemy to the very fabric that this nation was founded upon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A story…. I would not be possible. This would not be possible. People have been using the Internet for so long we forget what it really is. Does anyone really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,70,50,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-decision","category-freedom","category-politics","category-rant","category-the-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackspherelabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}