The internet is under attack.

Recent developments in the news have me worried that there is a strong push towards controlling content and access to content on the internet for ridiculous reasons more related to controlling our browsing habits and conceptions of information access, than about stopping any kind of malicious pictures or info getting to the wrong persons hands.

In Australia we currently have the looming great unspoken of firewall. Which has received scant attention in the pages of the morning paper. The little attention it did receive from Fairfax media was quickly brushed aside, with a Labours communications minister even calling the company to express his disappointment in their covering of the issue.

The fact is it's a repressive and inelegant solution to a complex problem. But whatever. Blocking www.kiddyporn.com will do nothing to stop the spread of illegal material. There's P2P networks, messageboards, newsgroups, and IRC where illegal pictures can be distributed, and what about the ACTUAL MAIL?

It's not hard for a pedo to drop some gigs onto a $10 usb and mail it to his fellow ring members. (I doubt the mailman will start opening every package to check if there is illegal digital or analogue content within.) Simply put, it can NOT be stopped by the conventional means of blocking access to the most obvious of sites. It must be treated at the root, and that's something that dinosaur politicians can not fathom as it involves action far more complex than knee jerk reactive laws that can be easily explained in a populist paragraph.

"Uh, we're going to ban all the bad sites".

Its a case of Problem Reaction Solution. In their ignorance the governments of the world also have a more insidious plan veiled behind their schemes for the removal of access to illegal material.

Government is a virus created for many reasons, but its imperative action and reason for exisiting is to remain in power. Due to this, and since its sole existence is based on fighting for its very survival, it is capable of many a malicious and impressive feat.

So without further ado, the problem is this - (AND ITS THE SAME PROBLEM TO THEM REGARDING LIFE, FORESTS, PEOPLE, NGOS, NETWORKS ETC)..

Problem - The internet is wild and we cant control it
Reaction - We're scared, it's a threat.
Solution - Find ways to control it.

So a story is sold to the public in order to phase in this prepared solution.

Problem sold - The internet is wild and full of like, dark, creepy old men, waiting to stab you with their razor sharp dick.
Reaction created- Alarm, Fear, Public demands a solution. 'Not RAZOR sharp!'
Solution implemented - Internet censorship, firewalls, busts to make an example of others etc.

The goal is not to stop the spread of illegal information. They know thats impossible. The aim is to decrease the rate of information sharing, to analyze it and to create culture of guarded fear and self censorship in the publiv.

Most of this has been said before and is well understood. Why are we so docile to contunally accept these Trojan 'solutions'?

In a way we are so disempowered in the actual scheme of things, that we just know better.. public uproar does little to change a governments mind (Iraq anyone?), letter writing is a joke, as is blogging about it (as in this post). What can be done?

All I can argue for is the 100 monkey effect, all my hopes lie in the creation of conscious awareness in the ether of the collective human spirit. (sorry for using that word, but I didn't want to write 'conscious' twice in the one sentence).

I truly believe, I have to believe, that this is the only way change is truly entrenched in the world. Talking about it, singing about it, knowing about it.. damn it's so hippy, yet it adds up. All the change in the world has been driven by the generation that realizes that so many things taken for granted are not real at all. And as it was, so it will be.. however until that time I'm worried and somewhat impotent.. the censorship is real, the attempts to muffle the oneness of our cyberconscious one mind spreading information are calculated and strong.. we can only wait it out and in the meantime, accept it for the ridiculous darkness it represents.

Some topical news stories to illustrtate my point -

Fake Simpsons Cartoon is 'Porn'

An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pornography.

Queensland Man Charged Over Baby Swinging Video

A Queensland man has been charged for re-publishing on a video-sharing site a viral video of a man swinging a baby around like a rag doll.

The Great Australian Firewall

The Australian government is due to start a series of field trials this month in order to filter websites that are harmful to children.

Wikipedia Blocked in The UK due to Album Cover

Six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia after the site was added to an Internet Watch Foundation child-pornography blacklist, according to Wikipedia administrators.

The list could go on, but these are all taking place THIS WEEK. Some thing is not right.. and the worst of it is, that this is only a symbolic representation of what is taking place everywhere, as I said before, with the destruction of old growth forests, the destruction of indigenous communities, terrorizing of separatist groups, decimation of the land, creation of artificial environments, printed lies, media monopolies etc.. It's all symbolic of one thing - Psychopathic pathological destruction of life for internal fear management and the creation of artificial environments to ease the fear of life.

Because the two things that no infinite amount of money will ever allow powerful interests to control are LIFE and TRUTH.

They fear life so they create death. Cultural death, environmental death, spiritual death..

The forest is wild, lets kill it.
The truth is beyond our control, lets stifle it.

And so it goes..

All other reasons are mere excuses. The whole game is one of creation of artificiality, manageable chunks, numbers. They see it this way - If we can turn it into numbers, we can manage it, if we can manage it, our fortune is safe. Not only that, but a number is abstract that we can fudge it, double it, multiply it, and create wealth out of nothing. First I had 4 now I have 70! Look at these numbers. SO MANY NUMBERS!

They who seek to continue holding onto their artificial power structures are Death and Lie addicts. They like death because it's immediate, and they can manage it. They create lies because they can understand them. Now how to end this in the obligatory hopeful uplift?.. (Hope is a slut by the way..)

It is always trite to put the obvious into words without having an experiential understanding of it. I say all this because I felt it from the forests. So I'm retelling it because I can -

'Above all comes imagination, we are always imagining, we are a product of our imagination, and we as a species, collectively imagine that we can't imagine, that we don't imagine, but we do, we always are, it's the only way possible, we will imagine something else, we will imagine something else, so imagine it..'