Does anyone fear that the internet...

[dax702]

Does anyone fear that the internet will be attempted to be taken away from us because of the "threat" RP and we have posed? Assuming Paul doesn't become President, the people "in charge" will have to know that we are all fired up and organizing on the internet for the long haul to make sure the Constitutional candidate in 4 years does win.. I fear they will try to take the internet away, somehow, and then it will be back to hitting the streets, which isn't bad, but you get my point...

 

[Wells]

I do

 

[Greenskin]

America doesn't own the internet

 

[josh24601]

You mean the threat of dominating 5-10% of Republican primaries?

I know where you are going with all of that, and it's good to be alert.

But don't get carried away just yet.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

They have already tried to regulate speech on the Internet and have had some success, unfortunately.

-n

 

[jackbid]

Unless there is some genius who can devise a way to control the internet, or if Rupert Murdoch buys off all the ISPs in the world, only then we would lose the FREEDOM of the internet...

 

[dax702]

I know we don't own the internet but there are countries, for example North Korea which block whatever content they want from reaching their people. Of course this from outside that country coming in. I don't know how or if the US could block us. Under something like HR 1955 or something similar, we could be labeled anti US, or something extreme like that, who knows....I don't put anything past the gov't anymore.

 

[Wolf]

People won't stand for that.

 

[dax702]

The threat meaning, people having their blindfolds lifted and reverting back to everything in the Constitution. All of the "ron paul cured my apathy" people have essentially been awakened from being brainwashed. The internet has been our vehicle for spreading the word for the most part.

 

[Joseph Hart]

Government will control NET2.0 (its a bill that says the government will own all the servers for the North American internet)
We will be washed away. Black bagged. Destroyed.

 

[Ron2Win]

It's called Net Neutrality.

 

[dax702]

Well, I fear something like that and think it's a very real possibility. We should start thinking about how to organize the rEVOLution in the event that that happens.

 

[dax702]

Joseph, can you provide more info on what you said (applicable links, etc)

 

[Patriot123]

It all ready has been. Something similar to the Net Neutrality Act was slipped into that bill that promised to fix the recession. So now the NSA, or rather AT&T specifically are about to take control of the entire net.

 

[fedup100]

After this election the real tyranny will begin in earnest. The internet will be so changed in a year, you will not know it. First it will be filtered and then changed where you will pay big bucks for time usage and then it will be private and then gone. The internet is too dangerous for this last leg of the trip from freedom to tyranny.....they really don't want that part on youtube.

I for one can't wait for the the ignorant blue hairs and brain deads to get it between the eye's, they so deserve it. To the rest of you that don't, I am so sorry for what you will have to endure to survive. Look to God now......it's on

 

[Thanehand]

Yes, and it won't be just the internet.

You thought $2,300 limit of McCain-Fiengold was bad? Now that McCain realizes that 50,000 people can donate $100 and pose a serious threat, I won't be surprised to see that noose tightened right up after this election.

 

[GryphonsClaw]

Lookup Senator Ted Stevens with the Net Neutrality on You Tube. They will try to pass this because they must realize that the people are getting a voice and they cannot control that voice. The day that law passes is the day I'm moving overseas.

 

[WedgeTalon]

Will they try to "ruin" the internet for us? Yes.

Will it be specifically in retaliation to Ron Paul? Unlikely.

They've been trying for a while to bring the internet to heel, with some successes and some failures. This is why Paul is so strongly against internet regulation, even when it is seemingly beneficial, because allowing the government to regulate any inch of the internet invites them to try to do even more.

 

[Xyrus2]

People won't stand for that.

Oh yeah. They won't stand for it. They won't stand for taking away their freedoms either. Or having their government engage in torture. Or have their government start unprovoked wars.

No way. People are way to smart for that.

And if you believe that, I actually shit bars of solid gold.

People already live in a cage. If you want to motivate people, you take away their TV. At this point, I'm convinced that the government could gun down all the Ron Paul supporters as terrorists and most people wouldn't even think twice about it.

~X~

 

[iiguns]

I give it a few years, then just like that. Filters that will limit what we can read and see.