government control
... Our democratic government sensing the growing power of the Internet that is not so easy to control is doing all it can to get on the top of the wild horse. The government is dreaming to have the control: to view all the information circulating the web, to read our private e-mails, to peek into chat rooms, and to restrict us, the Internet people, in any way possible. The government wishes to be the next big brother who will be watching you! No matter how small, any attempt at government intervention in the Internet will stifle the greatest communication innovation of this century. ... Why it is that government has the need to read our private e-mails? ... If we allow the government to interfere with our lives so much, sooner or later it will turn into Communism or Dictatorship. Our government wants to maintain control over the new, greatest form of communication: the Internet. ... government sources helped fund Arpanet, the predecessor to the Internet, they no longer control it. ... Even if our government tried to regulate the Internet, it has no control over what is posted in other countries, and it has no practical way to stop it. ... This is a tiny example of what may happen if the government tries to impose censorship. ... Self-regulation by users and servers is the key to avoiding government imposed intervention. ... If we, the Internet users, want to avoid government-imposed regulations then it is time we begin to regulate ourselves. ... The only problem is that it feels that this human curiosity can be applied to the government more than the individual. ... Sadly enough, the government’s goal is to use you more effectively. No, our imagination has not gone out of control. ... It seems the government has allowed us to have their leftover technology; so that we may put our private lives on public display, where they monitor it with their now more advanced technology, and weve paid for it all. ... Government has built the network to monitor us and it does not want us to be able to hinder that monitoring. If we ask about it, the government will deny it; and we, in our turn, will exhale with great relief, swallowing every lie it throws at us.