Jul 3, 2009, 00 :04 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (418 reads)
(Other stories by Carla Schroder)
by Carla Schroder
Managing Editor
Those were more dramatic times than now, with people risking their lives and taking other great risks for the cause of independence. But one thing has not changed, and that is the eternal fight between freedom and tyranny. The contemporary version is much less bloody, and more sneaky and insidious. It's big businesses invading our personal privacy in every way they can get away with, and buying and selling our personal data with no oversight or accountability. We don't even get a cut of the swag. It's the erosion of our civil liberties, aided and abetted enthusiastically by business in pursuit of profits, no matter how unethical. It's the manipulation and ruination of the courts, for example the insane unchecked litigation by the RIAA that has brought ruin to so many people, and the never-ending SCO saga. It is absurd that these weiners should have so much power for destruction and obstruction. In a sane world their top executives would spend their weekends in the stocks in the public square, being mocked and pelted with offal.
Go there and read more...http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-07-03-001-35-OP-BZ-CY
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