Defending intellectual property my ass. I’m so pissed that congress thinks that they can make people believe that censoring the web is necessary because it’s under the guise of stopping piracy.
Piracy could be stopped easily. Servers that host pirating websites could be turned OFF. If the government wanted them gone, they could do it. I’m tired of being fed bullshit and people thinking I’ll eat it up without question.
I’m so pissed because I believe in America so much. I believe in freedom and I think it is so fucked up that I live in a country where our values have fallen so far. I’m tired of slowly giving up rights. I’m tired of pretending that I’m free because I think that maybe it’s not so bad. It is that bad. Slowly giving up little decisions that should be mine, no matter how small, is wrong because they should still be my right, my choice to make. If they keep taking away little things, soon they can take away big things, then anything.
The quote “When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free” is my favorite for a reason. If it’s wrong to free, if it’s wrong to say what I want, what I think, if I need to be censored by law, fuck that, I don’t want to be right.
So if you haven’t signed the damn petition, do it. Do it right fucking now.
18 Jan 2012 / 12 notes / PIPA SOPA america bullshit government freedom
On days like today there are a lot of accusations being thrown around that the government has had some involvement in 9/11. And as much as I hear about it, as much as it makes sense for these things to have happened, I could never believe them because then I could not believe in my country. And I truly believe in our country. So no, everyone can sit down.
11 Sep 2011 / 4 notes / never forget 9/11 government country america
Women do have rights, a lot more than they used to. Feminism isn’t about bitching because women don’t have rights, or aren’t equal members of society (which in some ways they still aren’t really).
Feminism to me is just another way of understanding that just because someone has rights, it doesn’t mean the problem is fixed and suddenly disappears. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t end the problem of slavery. The Civil Rights Act hasn’t stopped discrimination.
Racial and sexual hierarchies, these are all mindsets, traditions that were/are ingrained in people and it is our job as a progressive society to make sure that these traditions don’t continue because we have deemed them wrong.
I’m just striving for a little bit of consistency, some truth and action. If anything is going to change we can’t just make a law, make a rule, we need to alter our thinking—not just with regard to women, but with regard to all minorities, sexual orientation, and everything else.
14 Jun 2011 / 3 notes / equality women men gay straight minority society government legislation explanation
I don’t understand how we can all sit here and let our rights get taken away one by one. This internet ID Obama is proposing under the guise of “enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords” is bullshit. Seems to me that this eliminates my freedom of anoninimity on the internet. And if this is America, the country that was founded in the name of freedom, I should have the right to be anonymous if I god damn please.
9 Jan 2011 / 8 notes / america obama internet government politics
