Interesting how on one hand people are claiming that the government is colluding to create internet censorship, and on the other hand the government is sponsoring a device to help circumvent internet censorship:
Our central premise in #killswitch - the documentary, is that decentralization of knowledge is essential for democracy.
The Printing Press gave society this during the enlightenment period, halting centuries of oppression in the Western World. And the Internet is doing this today by revitalizing democracies in the Western world and helping ignite revolution in the Middle East.
We advocate a Constitutional framework that protects the integrity of the Internet. i.e. a separations principle, whereby content providers should not be ISP's and vice versa. (Detailed account of this in Tim Wu's, "Master Switch").
We are averse to any "Big Brother" Regulation by the Government or "Brave New World" Corporate take-over of the Internet.
The only way to combat oppression is to have accountable governance is to have decentralization of info/knowledge.
One of a demcocracy's central purposes is to protect this decentralized and accountable framework (by protecting the decentralized integrity of the Internet).
One way the gov. can do this by enforcing the 1st Amendment, i.e. Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech. But the gov. won't do this with out an aware and educated citizenry. Which is why we're making the documentary.
(for a detailed account of how our founding father's expressed the difference between Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech, check out Robert McChesney's "The Death and Life of American Journalism")
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Interesting how on one hand people are claiming that the government is colluding to create internet censorship, and on the other hand the government is sponsoring a device to help circumvent internet censorship:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651245
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652169
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656074
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2656816
Left hand? Right hand? What will the government do when people create their own mesh internet?
Very interesting, Colin.
Our central premise in #killswitch - the documentary, is that decentralization of knowledge is essential for democracy.
The Printing Press gave society this during the enlightenment period, halting centuries of oppression in the Western World. And the Internet is doing this today by revitalizing democracies in the Western world and helping ignite revolution in the Middle East.
We advocate a Constitutional framework that protects the integrity of the Internet. i.e. a separations principle, whereby content providers should not be ISP's and vice versa. (Detailed account of this in Tim Wu's, "Master Switch").
We are averse to any "Big Brother" Regulation by the Government or "Brave New World" Corporate take-over of the Internet.
The only way to combat oppression is to have accountable governance is to have decentralization of info/knowledge.
One of a demcocracy's central purposes is to protect this decentralized and accountable framework (by protecting the decentralized integrity of the Internet).
One way the gov. can do this by enforcing the 1st Amendment, i.e. Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech. But the gov. won't do this with out an aware and educated citizenry. Which is why we're making the documentary.
Check out our trailer on kickstarter when you get a chance: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/akorn/killswitch-a-docum...