The Internet has is one of the technologies that has the most potential to bring, and keep, people together.
It's a platform on which everyone can participate, share and truly reach a larger number of other people in order to organize in order to reach common objectives.
As such, it's important that the Internet runs on open standards and software. It should be easy to see how the underpinnings run, so that no group can have a way to impede free speech. Or any other freedoms at that.
Individuals have the right to freely associate as they see fit, in order to advance their interest. Walled gardens are to avoided as a matter of principal, since they take control out of the hands of the people and put it on the hands of the owner of the gardener.
Freedom of speech and association are corner stones to keep our freedom. We should be the ones settings the limits to them, not outside forces. Why anyone should have a word on what I say, or with whom I associate with? When power becomes centralized, it has a hard time keeping up with the advancement of the individual and the society.
That's why communities at the ground level should have a lot more say on how they manage themselves. We are the one who know better than anybody else the problems that we face them, and should have the freedom to look for the solutions needed and enact them.
The time has come to take power to do on our hands, and really make the change we are looking for directly at our communities. And the Internet can be one tool to empower the people.
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