Originally Posted by Quexos

Perhaps we are witnessing a major paradigm shift, the beginning of a transition from a money-driven society with all its inherent inequities towards something else. A new world of social justice, a world driven and motivated by the actual well-being of all its citizens and not just an elite minority. Perhaps there is already something of this new world, with us now. Perhaps the internet is it, the first tool implementing these profound changes. I must wonder whether the very nature of the internet is not the sharing of information on a global scale, not just as such but as a beacon showing us how things should be: free and accessible to all, everywhere and at all times.
Is it just a coincidence that such large free-sharing communities of millions and millions of people spawned from the net so soon after it became this tool of the masses ? Could it be that attempting to make the internet a place of business for money profit is against its nature just as it is against its nature to have it controlled by corporations, governments or any other type of elite minority ?

Maybe it's just the dreamer in me that's talking.