I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

The future's here, we are it, we are on our own

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy.