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by Chris_Dollar
5472 days ago
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Yes, many citizen groups stand up for the 1st Amendment and tell our representatives that Internet censorship is not feasible in a functioning democracy. The problem is that the Big Six (GE, News Corp., Disney, Time Warner, Viacom, & CBS) have a megaphone and bags of cash... so often the voices of the citizen groups get drowned out. Couple that with the fact that the vast majority Americans form their world view from the television or the websites that the Big Six own. Sex scandals and Hollywood gossip is discussed, Internet censorship? Not so much. And this is increasingly not just an American problem, as many people on this thread are pointing out. We live in a global society (thanks largely to the Internet), the challenges of the U.S. are increasingly the challenges of France. The Internet has done a tremendous amount of good over the past 20+ years, but there is a flip side to this coin as well. Check out this five minute documentary trailer (on KickStarter) that seeks to tackle some of these Internet censorship issues: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akorn/killswitch-a-docum... This documentary project is looking to get crowd-funded by small individual donations from the same citizens with the most to lose if we moved to a censored and centralized Internet. |
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