speedfreak_5's Journal: Too many things wrong with the government right now...

Wow. This place is really messed up right now. We currently have many representatives in the government that listen to their "cash constituents" instead of the people who put them in office, another crap copy-protection bill apparently intended to destroy most fair-use rights that we have now.
      The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion act is the uber-bill to give the RIAA and MPAA the keys to the kingdom. They would have control over the coputers of the world, basically turning the intenet from a free-speech haven (for most of us...) into the next media craze, to pimp Britney Spears or whatever else the RIAA or MPAA wants everyone to go head over heels for onto our computers.
      Mabye they're scared because the internet allows the people to have a choice of who they want their movies to come from. Mabye they want to see an independent flick over the internet. I say so be it. If this Consumer Broadband and Digit...f$&# it, the name's too long...passes, then independent films and music could very well become blocked in every computer in the United States.
      Sometimes, I feel like a major act of civil disobedience is the only way to counteract this atrtocity of corrupt leadership and overambitious , multi-national corporations. I'm talking about something huge. Somehting that would wake the US up from it's TV-fueled stupor and realize who's really in control. Mabye having every Slashdot reader place a call or two to their senators isn't a bad idea. If anyone has any ideas that would get everyone off of their ass, short of a major revolution, i'm open to suggestions.
      With the cartels armed with the DMCA and CBDTPA, and the current pimping of the whole intellectual property bit, 1984 and its "thoughtcrimes" are much closer than I thought. I know I sould a little bit paranoid, but it's around 11 at night, past my ranting prime time. Later.