What's sad is that we have the kind of naieve posers whose comments belie either youthful ignorance or worse, outright stupidity.

Both posters are in need to be schooled, history specifically, with maybe a bit of sociology and psychology mixed in for more depth and a clue. There's the famous saying that absolute power corrupts absolutely. If you don't believe it's true in today's world then RTFM on J Edgar Hoover to see what law enforcement is capable of with a blank check.

And hello?! That last lamer that was appauled that a technology like the internet was released to the public without taking into account cyber terrorism and organized crime? That dwad needs to learn that it wasn't the "big telecom companies" that invented the internet but the US Military to allow sensitive and classified information to be maintained and preserved via distributed networking. As if forty years ago any if its founders had any concept that a handy convenience for the military, US universities, and research laboratories would become the driving force of everything it is today.

Any government that has attempted to systematically hoard and repress society from technological progress instead of embracing and adopting ends up imploding and left to fester in the dirt of its own sordid vampirism as the sun comes up anyway and the world passes them by.

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