On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:08:42 -0600 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 07:21:12PM -0600, Dale wrote: > > > >>> I am truly surprised that Gentoo, and more GNU/Linux and *BSD > >>> sites did not join in the 'blackout'. The only one I saw that > >>> did was opensuse.org . […] > >> I bypassed the wiki black out. I used adblock to disable the part > >> that blacks everything out. > > Actually, that could have been one of their points -- it is very > > easy to circumvent*. > > > > Thanks to the blessings of NoScript, I surf with JS mostly > > disabled, so I wouldn’t have seen it either. However, it is > > specifically stated on the Wiki page that tells about the blackout) > > -- they kept a loophole open for “emergencies” (whatever those are). > > > > > > * As far as I heard about those laws (which isn’t as much as I > > [cs]hould have), they intent to do more than the simple DNS > > censoring from which our European politicians are getting their wet > > dreams. > > > I'm like this. The internet, although it can have its bad points, > has done really well without Governments, at least ours, getting > their fingers in the pie. One thing I have learned is that when you > want to really screw up a good thing, get the Government involved. I > read a neat way of explaining this a good while back. Governments > create a problem, claim they are fixing it when there is none, then > spend billions trying to fix the fix that wasn't needed to begin > with. I wish I had wrote down each time I saw this happen. Thing > is, I don't think I can afford that much paper and I'm not sure I > have enough drive space either. > > Here's to hoping Governments learn they can't regulate thought or > stupidity. Humanity starts things and continues things. This is good. Governments stop things. This is only sometimes good. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
