I belong to a daily mailing list from the entertainment industry that discusses technology and the laws that regulate our digital infrastructure. It’s a fascinating, often philosophical discussion.
The internet is global and so any national legal jurisdiction is rendered largely meaningless. With an ISP (internet service provider) in one country, the servers in another, a user in a third location and the actions broadcast to recipients around the world in a fraction of a second, often anonymously and at extremely little cost, you can see that the idea of control is rapidly becoming illusion.
So the other day I received this:
Take a look.
Is it a valiant affirmation of our basic first amendment rights and does the fact that it is an equal opportunity offender make it okay?
Is this the kind of website a responsible government would take down?
Should Freedom of Speech under our First Amendment take precedent if it is hosted in America?
I wonder.
This could be an important declaration of our intention to live in freedom regardless of the realities of our brave, new, modern world... or it could be a reckless call to war depending on the viewer.
What do you think?
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