Free flow of information?

Hey people. I'm starting this thread in relation to this:
http://dis.4chan.org/read/newpol/1293992141/1-40

 I think the flow of information is a MASSIVE issue that is not beeing discussed enough.

So, do you think the flow of information should be totaly unrestricted? Or do you believe there should be laws that protect people from malicious use.

Personaly I would like to see fully unrestricted flow of information one day, but i think that a sudden change in the way we currently manage it could be catastrophical. I believe an good order of abolishing restrictions would be to

a) abolish all copiright and intelectual property laws.
b) make all bank transactions available online
c) enforce transparency in bussinesses and states by forcing them to release all info they manage - including all their financial info.
d) allow some 20 years for the world to digest itself

Please feel free to attack my point of view and add your own. Scepticism is a bless...

>>12
You're right, i actually meant corporations but couldn't find the right word (I'm not a native speaker)
>>9 True about personal transactions. As to A), I don't know what they teach you in your country, but where I come from college history only makes you think in a nationalistic way. The point though is WHO OWNS THIS TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH.

Excuse the long example following, but i think in the end you'll understand where i'm comming from:

A few years back i was discussing with a friend. I was saying that humans and animals are prety much the same thing. He said:
-Wow man, we have cars, computers, mobile phones etc. Do you know any animals that can do this?
My reply was: Hold on a minute dude, can you make cars?
-No
Can you make computers?
-No
Mobile phones even?
-No
So how come you think you are smarter than animals? Take away the technology and you can't even survive in nature. Just because some people ARE smarter than both you and animal, and they make you wake up in the morning and work all day to get paper money in order to exchange it for the new flashy object they created doesn't make you very smart.
-Silence...

You see my friends, we humans often oversimplify things in order to comprehend them. But as more and more middle class people are chewed and spit out poor by the system, more people start to wake up and understand how they have been fucked dry by the system they 'are part of'. It's like a wake up slap. And if you don't feel like becoming violent, information is the next best choice in my opinion.

You see i come from greece and I can see corruption outside my window. I can smell Goldman Sachs and Deutche Bank in the air (I'm referring to the GS 'swaps' and the 'spreads' game respectivelly). I can hear the cannons and bombs of economic and currency warfare everyday. And I am FED UP.

In my honest opinion greece is terminaly fucked and oddly enough, i don't feel very bad about it, it was shit anyway. But if this project the bankers are pushing through in greece is successfull, they're not going to stop in ireland or portugal or spain. They're going to put this new war through until they manage to re-arrange the whole fucking planet.

You might think I'm paranoid or whatever, and i can't blame you if you're sitting comfortably in you soft chair in your massive house. But please spend half a minute what you would be without your car, your house and your job.

From where i'm standing there are two roads. Violence and information. I realy wish people knew what happened to their taxes and public property. I wish thet when (and if i ever) have children i will at least be able to explain to them how the scam was pulled.

Anyway, sorry for getting too long here but some things are hard to put in a few words.

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