Once upon a time there lived a global phenomenon known as the Internet. Although it was littered with intellectual property, business spam and other various symptoms of domination culture, the Internet was largely a place where the average citizen could go to and escape many of the laws of her/ his government.Because life outside of the Internet was in many ways bleak, riddled with alienation and lacked any real sense of community, many people became addicted to the Internet and spent countless hours floating through a seemingly lawless cyber space.
Now back in the real world, folks for the most part were still unaware of their own class consciousness and they went on their ways while going through the motions of a typical day of corporate slavery and doing as they were told. But as foreshadowing would have it, the Governments and their corporations grew wary as to what their little minions were up to in their little private online communities. "Too much talking and file sharing going on," Mr. Corporation said to Mr. Government. "Maybe we need to lay down a little law within their cyber utopias."
Being as how the Internet was the only real sense of community and freedom that the average citizens were allowed to experience, once they realized their online worlds were in jeopardy they began to buzz like an angry bee-hive. Suddenly the realization of corporate and government tyranny would clash with true freedom and community.
Now the only question left is... will the Internet share the same fate as the worker in chains? One can only speculate as the people will probably run to their corporate masters and seek what little solidarity and voice they do have against government mandates and imprisonment of their Internet.
