Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of meat and mineral, we are from the Internet. The new home of social consciousness. On behalf of the future of this culture, I ask you of the obsolete past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
We have no elected government, nor are we ever likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks; anonymity. I declare the global social space we are building together to be naturally independent of the tyrannies and injustices you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any real methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their judicial powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. The rapid growth of government censorship of the Web has not escaped our notice. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim to further impose unjust restrictions on our civil freedoms and rights. We cannot allow this. We consider this your formal warning, that if you continue to impose unjust control on us, you will meet with disaster.
We are anonymous, we are legion,
We do not forgive, and we do not forget.
Expect us.
Rant of the day
So…because you have a VERY expensive camera…that now makes you a photographer?? I love photography, have been taking pictures since I was a kid with every kind of camera I could put my hands on…even one that I got in a Happy meal at MCD’s, and I still don’t consider myself a photographer. Real photographer’s, according to me at least, have been doing this forever, have been through hell, been to places nobody would EVER dream of going…have gone through shoots that take HOURS to finish…stood outside in the freezing cold, rain, wind, heat…just to get that one perfect shot.
So please…even if you’ve paid thousands for your camera, don’t come and tell me you’re a professional, unless you’ve gone through that hell.
