Security filters set up to block access to -- among other things -- any website that contains the phrase 'blog' in the URL.
I have to pause for a second before bringing up the increasing pychological similarities between day-to-day living in 2005 and
The Matrix - the first installment of the trilogy, the
good one - but the more we see Net-enabled social software technologies such as blogs and file-sharing schemes proliferate, the more we see big entities such as governments and corporations (who may in fact be
the true governments) do everything they can to either deny people full access, or
co-opt these systems by hostile takeover and financial acquisition.
Only when these entities control the technologies, and can impose grossly asymmetric, top-down relationships where they dictate everything is the technology considered
safe for the masses.
But, of course, by that time, all of the value to individuals - the teeth - are gone, and you have yet another corporate pipeline for the pabulum, banality, and pseudo-reality that substitute for life today, like TV, like radio.
And the gridlines of the mesh/matrix get tighter and tighter.
The thought of individuals, participating in truly independent and/or collaborative activities not dictated by some self-appointed human authority is problematic to the owners of our ersatz society. This is sure not a free world.
Neo's automated
agent menace Smith couldn't exist without controlling the system.
In our world, neither can BigCos and BigGovs.
It's about control and the world pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.
Hat tip to Laosan at
Na Han.
b/w: na han