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It may not change much in the short term, but it could have huge implications in the long run, some of them potentially troublesome.

Nooooooooooooooooooo!

What are the implications in the long run?

More Japanese child porn sites?

Originally posted by BackFire
More Japanese child porn sites?

crylaugh

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Nooooooooooooooooooo!

What are the implications in the long run?
Well, the implications in the long run is that a private organization will now run the internet, an organization with close business ties to a corporation that sells domain names. So, as if that's possible, the internet will become even more monetized.

Yaaayyy!!!!! Less government! Ron Paul! Ron Paul!

EA will buy the internet and make everything pay to play.

Just wait till they install chips into our brains and Microsoft institutes an "always online" policy for humans.

Making Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov roll in their graves.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
EA will buy the internet and make everything pay to play.

Hahahaha.

"Please purchase the newly released moneyshot microtransaction pack to enjoy the ending of this pornographic video"

Get used to typing in your credit card with one hand.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Get used to typing in your credit card with one hand.

They should already know our credit card numbers.

Even better.

I like the idea. It leaves it free to find new avenues.

Considering China is probably going to try and seize parts of it, not good. Try searching Tiananmen Square on Google China sometime. No tanks in sight.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Considering China is probably going to try and seize parts of it, not good. Try searching Tiananmen Square on Google China sometime. No tanks in sight.

Those revisionists!

I love the lengths that petty dictators go to control the media. It's kind of adorable, in a freakishly evil and sociopathic way.

That is the part that concerns me, that it might become easier for foreign dictatorships to influence the internet.

I know, I know, the next post is going to be "as opposed to a domestic dictatorship?"

Haha.

Jokes aside, I'd rather have the government know that I'm looking up porn and parse my conversations for mentions of bombs and Islamism than have everything blocked out and censored.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
I love the lengths that petty dictators go to control the media. It's kind of adorable, in a freakishly evil and sociopathic way.
The President of Turkmenistan had a gold statue built of himself on a mechanical dais designed to rotate so that throughout the day the statue's always facing the sun.

He's one eyepatch away from a Bond Villain.

This sounds amazing as the government is against us anyways.

Originally posted by Time Immemorial
This sounds amazing as the government is against us anyways.

Why does it sound amazing to you, and what does that with the government being against us?