In this age of omnipresent email and mainstream technology news, pictures of ribbons don't cut it as tools of moral suasion anymore. Lawyers and politicians and those who hold the reigns of real power are going to use that hubris to eat the medium alive, snapping off bits to chew on at their pleasure. And all the indignant, insular posts in the world will do nothing to stop them. Until the geeks can put away their snotty superiority and muster up enough interest to deal with the law on its own terms, their precious technical achievements are going to be for naught. And until the people who claim to care about the future of the Internet can put down their keyboards, put on suits and learn to fight like attorneys, then all this revolutionary new freedom is moot.
Lawyers rule the world.
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