We live in a time of dramatic change, both social and technological. But as students and the youth of the world, we have a unique relationship with the changes sweeping our countries. We were born at the same time as the personal computer was brought kicking and screaming into our homes, and we are coming of age just as the internet is reaching maturity. We are the first native netizens, populating the World Wide Web with digital communities, and turning it from an unfriendly wilderness — brought to us by the geek pioneers — into an international neighborhood. It was once true that simply by simply signing off AOL and shutting down the computer you could avoid the political and social ramifications of the information revolution.


However, the digital world has become increasingly influential in and internconnected with the "real world", and the decisions that we make now as to how we will deal with cyberspace will have profound consequences for our generation. We students will have to speak out and act, or let the decisions be made for us. A question has been posed, although few have heard it being asked:


Will the old order trigger a counterrevolution which will, unopposed, suppress innovation and impose a radical regime of control and surveillance? Or will our tradition of freedom carry over to the digital age, allowing us to rebuild the world into a more efficient and harmonious whole?

Couter-counter-revolution. yeah. world we be livin' in - new world order crosses all borders.
so we gotta learn from it, develop new alternatives - save our humanity from this calamity!

We have not won yet. Only a few have flocked. Most of them who have show up here at boycott-riaa.com (no, I am NOT kidding... our best minds post, or at least READ these threads.)