Click here to access article by Jeremy Malcolm, Cindy Cohn, and Danny O'Brien from Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Although these people don't acknowledge the reality of the current class war that is occurring, they, as experts on all technical matters of internet, recognize that there are attacks happening against the norms of free expression of opinions over the internet. There is much to be learned about the internet in this piece to enable us to better fight against censorship that is currently being waged by agents of the capitalist class.
Permit me to digress because I've just had an epiphany and, before I forget, I want to share it with you! Don't ask me how I arrived at it, because I don't remember. It has something to do with the free expression of ideas.
The thought just occurred to me that education in a capitalist controlled society, such as we are in, has so effectively blocked any class-based analysis of issues in those it educates. (If this is difficult for you to grasp, think of it in terms of inoculation against a disease--the disease in this case is critical thinking.) And the more education one receives, the more this blocking process occurs. These insights have been validated by many experiences in my rather long life of 81 years.
Capitalists need highly trained people to enable them to
exploit workers, to design devices (robots, subsystems, weapons, etc)
which eliminates the need for workers, to better exploit workers, have
better access to resources and markets, to develop weapons that can threaten other countries to
comply with our masters' demands, to staff their many institutions to
protect and promote their system of capitalism, etc, etc. The more education one receives in a capitalist controlled society
the more potentially dangerous one becomes for our capitalist masters. To offset any threats to their rule and their system, which lays so
many golden eggs (among which are wealth and power) for them to enjoy at our expense, they especially load their system of higher
education with pro-capitalist ideas about the sanctity of private
economic property, the mythology/religion of the "invisible hand", the justness of their economic and political system,
and the necessity for workers to obey their leaders and work hard for their
bosses.
Of course, such ideas are pure indoctrination and people are discouraged from ever questioning questioning these fundamental beliefs of capitalism. They are like the 10 Commandments of Judaism and Christianity. Capitalism is a faith-based belief system which often resembles a religion. As mentioned above, my experience has validated a corollary of this indoctrination component of education: the more education one has, the more indoctrinated such a person is likely to be in these fundamental tenets of capitalism. (This holds true even when the factor of rewards/benefits are factored in--although less so.) This explains why I nearly always have found it more difficult to convince educated people of the class nature of our society than I have people who have received much less education.
