Technology is great for getting the wordout and bypassing censorship in really bad countries like China, North Korea and the UK.
However it seems that there are some areas when even technology can’t help but instead is used against freedom.
Read here at Guido’s, albeit a bit late, about the Stasi clamping down on people stirring up trouble. Explain to me again who the good guys and the bad guys are now. I’m getting confused.
If you don’t understand technology and see it going against you then suppress it – the typical thought of any controlling government.
The good guys are those that use technology for the good of all – the bad guys are those that try and suppress it.
Slightly over the top but it makes you wonder what the world is to. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594830/a-quarter-germans-implanted-chips
The one redeeming factor is that those that reject it do so most strongly.
The process continues and still some people think there is no Them.
Ivan,
They want to develop it to control society but control anything that could free society up.
James,
There is no them. These guys do it as individuals and they each wants ulmitate power.