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I may move to Mars

Mitch Kapor wrote a while back:

Business success needs to be measured not just by profit, but by social impact as well.

One of the things our government is currently trying to do is just that, make the media companies more aware of their corporate actions. Unfortunately, they are going about it all wrong through censorship. Humorously, censorship is what started America.

A group of hippies in Old Europe got fed up with the status quo and set sail to found a new country, forever changing the way governments work. It was a new technological environment that allowed this act to happen. For the first time, many people could travel across the sea to the "New World". Of course it was dangerous and many people died on the way, and many more died once they got there, but sailing across the Atlantic opened the door for great changes.

Howard Stern and others are getting censored, and they will go someplace else to express their views. Extremists are moving to the web to express their views. The common man is moving to the web to express their views, which is why blogging has taken off like it has. The web has bridged a new gap, world-wide communication, and will forever change the world. Our government will change to fit into the new environment, or we will all move to Mars and try again.

Posted by carl at August 6, 2004 08:06 AM