White House seizes control of Internet by Executive Order

Rest assured every government on earth is quietly doing the same thing in one form or another.

My isp is collaberating with my government to block various websites including wikileaks and piratebay which my government has decided I should not be allowed to view.

The same isp also happily collaborates with other 3rd party fuckhats like IRMA to spy on customer downloads in case of copyright theft... what the everliving fuck?

That's like having a cop assigned to follow you for your entire life in case you commit a crime!

Anyways...
The most powerful system on Earth cannot be allowed to belong to the great unwashed masses, we've demonstrated our willingness and ability to use it to fuck with their shit.

Now they're going to lock it down, sanitize it and control it.
We are all sailing up shit creek together and we sold all our paddles for playstations and shiny things and cellphones with gps.

Beads and blankets lmao, nothing changes.

Anyway the first mistake we made is allowing them to define the internet as just a communication tool... we should have always pushed to concept of virtual space as a legitimate place, they like us to consider virtual goods as valuable as physical goods amirite?

And then we declare fucking independence yeah!

The Free Republic of Internet!

Campaign video, 2012, paid for by friends of keyboard cat.