1/16/2012

Freedom of information....

It's important to realize the that open standards are crucial to innovation, and to keep vested interests from monopolizing the information.

Information is at it's valuable when it's available to all who need it, or use it. No restrictions should be placed to the free flow of the information. It's on the interest of everyone, that we can be able to access and use any information as we see fit.

It's our right to be able to use the information, and to share it how and with whom we want. To restrict the information is not something that should be allowed, since information is the tool on which societies can grow and adapt better to changing circumstances.

Information should have no owner, and should be exchanged freely among who ever wants to share on any particular piece of information. As it is, information is valuable because of the use that can be given to it by its end user.

All attempts to censor, need to be repealed as soon as they appear. Censorship constraints our freedom to choose what do we want to ourselves. Any attempt to censor the information goes against our fundamental rights. Because we need good and complete information to make choices on our daily lives, some of them that are fundamental for our well being.

It's worrying that laws are being proposed can be used to censor the information that could be accessed by the majority, in order to protect the interests of a minority.

At least, is good to see that many people are doing things in order to stop those laws. We have the right to be free to access any information at all, and we are the judges of what information is the one we want to see and which one we don't.

The censorship should be at the level of each individual, and not being decided by someone else.

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