An excerpt from Dave Pollard’s brilliant blog post.
The first tool is knowledge. The Internet is the equivalent in our prison to the grapevine, the code used by POWs to pass on knowledge of ways and plans and actions to escape. It is the new Underground Railroad.
During your lifetime, those with wealth and power will recognize its subversive capacity and try to either take it over or shut it down.
Don’t let them. It’s your lifeline, your tunnel out. Read, learn, talk with others. Foment awareness, understanding, discontentment and dissent
Just ask Donny Rumsfeld … those damn digital cameras and the Internet.
Just ask Microsoft and HP what the ultimate effects of their DRM strategies might be.
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