On Thursday, January 19th, 2012, the internet group, Anonymous brought down two major websites. fbi.gov and doj.gov. The attack was prompted by the shutdown of MegaUpload.
The Sopa/pipa bills are the cause of outrage all over the internet.
The are many diverse communities on the web, and just like any large country, the smaller groups can have disputes and struggles.
But for the first time, the internet came together. Metal fans and rap fans, gangsters and scene kids, furries and humans, hetalians and homestucks; all standing together in an effort to save the internet.
Now when I heard about those websites going down, and the month of march; blackout month; I realized that this wasn’t some little thing.
This is war. Full-scale digital war.
And if the goverment doesn’t realize what’s happening
it may turn into ACTUAL WAR.
And I will be able to tell my grandchildren the story of the war that saved free speech and the internet in 2012.
I can tell them how people so different, and so opposed to each other, came together to save something they loved.
Something that can be used for evil, but also for extreme good.
The goverment should be afraid of us.
And in the words of one of my heroes, Martin Luther King Jr, however, it’s now the whole nation that can be spoken for;
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This winter of the peoples legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating spring of freedom and equality. 2012 is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the peoples needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the people are granted TRUE free speech and JUSTICE. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I want free speech to continue to exist. I want this country to continue to exist for what it was meant to be.
My friends, justice is something that is hard to come by.
And I may not believe in god
but i dont believe in my government.
So with every bit of myself, I ask that all of you, white black american asian hispanic jewish atheist christian gay straight bisexual pansexual asexual male female transgender all of you
And when this happens, when we allow justice to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
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