We all need to unite and come together and see the real emeny. big centralised powers ruling the common folk.

Voila! Internet control, and they will not have done anything about the initial problem that they instated the big brother bs for in the first place.

Should American's feel bad about nuking Japan? No, does Japan feel bad about invading China? Not so much. Big boys do what they want and if they lose, they don't whine about it for the next fifty years.

Take a look at England. Had a huge empire and now it has a couple of islands and a hangnail worth of Ireland. Do they whine, heck no, they simply kicked Argentina's butt.

Invading Iraq was probably not the best idea. It was left over from Bush senior's presidency. Afghanistan is a different matter if you are an American or a fan of theirs. But the attack on the world trade center was an attack on capitalism and western values more than an attack on a "country". If you think the powers that be are totalitarian in the USA, heh heh, you should see what they are like in fundamentalist Islamic countries. But many shy from criticising those countries for fear of being called religious bigots or maybe just offending the guys with all the money.

Frankly, you've spoiled by the cultural free-for-all of the Internet, and you define that as democracy, but real democracy, like any form of government, requires restrictions and protections in the form of laws and rights for its people. You might think that this moves from being a purely political to an altogether too domestic and personal environment, but its the profession and the scope of those in government to see things in political terms, and in the end they're trying to do what they think is best. Impractical or not, I agree with the sentiment.

you see the same problem appear in the u.s. and a., germany, france, the whole eu, and so on. in the uk too, though in a much more twisted way.

the other issue is, obviously, the sheer incompetence of governments when it comes to technical matters. "a pc must come with filtering functionality" - how do they think this should work? special pcs produced exclusively for japan, where you can't change the operating system and don't have administrative permissions? i'm laughing my ass off. this is as ineffective, fascist and idiotic as the dns filtering of loliporn sites by a few eu countries.

hitler and stalin would be proud.