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Originally Posted by Iphinome
The more you tighten your grip, riemann42, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
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I believe a lot of those people so tightly-wound over sharing, are so because they don't understand the fundamental shift that's taking place from the analog to the digital. They really can't grasp that the internet won't allow restrictions, that by its very nature it will circumvent all attempts at lock down (that was its main benefit to the military after all). They honestly believe that somehow, some way, we're going to go back to some halcyon day that never truly existed to begin with. It's a shame, really, because it's these attitudes, these misinformed people who are still in control for the most part. These are the people who are retarding progress, who are holding back innovation and the inevitable growth of what is the single most important societal shift since some sloped-foreheaded hairy cave dweller rubbed two sticks together and didn't run away when they caught fire.
Actually, that's quite a fitting analogy. I will use it the next time I'm taking tea with the Queen.
*Gentlemen! The Queen! God save her and all who ride in her!*